2021 Garage Sale Thread

[Old Radar]

Don, those Powr-Kraft nut drivers cleaned up nicely!

 

[Levaughn]

Nobody knows everything. Here's one inserted in its V-Block.



They are typically used in pairs for working on rods and other cylindrical objects.

You could have sword fights with that thing!

Thanks.

 

[WNYflyer]

Don, those Powr-Kraft nut drivers cleaned up nicely!

^^^This
I don't see Powr-Kraft nut drivers very often if ever, nice pick-up

 

[Private Lugnutz]

The other stuff I purchased separately at Jacktown this morning.

Nice haul, LS!

A "tool buddy" of mine (only know him from the flea) was there yesterday, he bought this little adjustable auto wrench (among other things), and he brought it to the flea today to show me. I know what the EnFo logo is (see Pic 3), but I'll play dumb for awhile for others who may not to enjoy the quizwork...

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Here's what I came home with from the flea (Lugz 2021_63) this morning.



Vlchek "ALLOY STEEL" (wartime!) water pump pliers
Vlchek valve lifter (I have two that are much earlier)
Schollhorn BERNARD belt punch (dupe, but an upgrade dupe)
Waldes-Truarc No. 1 (also a dupe upgrade)
TBD ignition pliers (too rusty to read the marking)
TBD (guessing some kind of piston ring tool, just not sure yet)
Armstrong "HI-TENSILE" (wartime GMTK!) dwarf dble. offset DBE 723
Lufkin Micrometer in original box with original paperwork, wrench and replacement screw
TBD thing under the micrometer box (guessing hand saw sharpener EDIT: Yup, Saw Jointer)
TBD (odd logo) DOE wrench, dual metric/imperial ize markings, guessing German
Williams pin spanner
TBD bicycle wrench (promising but illegible marking)
The patriotic DOE is a wartime Billings Vitalloy 1028-S (jeep/GMTK)
NONE BETTER tappet wrench (the first one I have ever seen)
< JAR > logo (J.A. Roebling) "ALLIGATOR" wrench (completing an interesting trifecta)
Antique Walden Worcester wheel tool has a secondary (customer) marking I can't read yet
I believe the thing next to that marked "THE BOSS" is a farrier's hoof hook/knife
Fish knife (Overland, Germany) and amber pocket knife (Munchen novelty markings, Solingen)

 

[mikeinri]

EnFo...

Obviously Ford, but not Edsel...

Mike

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Obviously Ford, but not Edsel...

Correct. Big Hint: The COO of the mfgr (the "J&S" on the flip side) would give the "En" away...

 

[Private Lugnutz]

In the LEFT-BEHIND folder...

I almost pulled the trigger on the big Remington book (Pic 1), but I thought $30 was too high for 5th printing and condition.

I am not a Lectrolite collector, but I do have some Tru-Fit tappet wrenches with the mysterious alloy composition markings, and these TruFit combos (Pic 2) were calling me for the same reason, but the big owners mark "W" was a turn off, and I didn't want them bad enough.

 

[Outlawmws]

I went to a "moving sale" that's been going on for ages BUT they finally posted pics and mentioned tools, so I went.

Not a lot but managed a few finds:

A wood plaque, a couple of turned posts/legs, a Wood handled driver, an SK deep Socket a couple of Williams DOEs and a small prybar or brake adjuster?



And a Coleman Coffee pot - Not shown 2 gallons of ful strngth Prestone antifreeze.





And I also revisited the living estate sale from yesterday - 3 brass linkage rods, Bottle opener, oyster/olive fork, stubby wood driver, #4 Scalpel and 6 blades, and a crescent Glass Block:

 

[steaks&anvils]

And I also revisited the living estate sale from yesterday - 3 brass linkage rods, Bottle opener, oyster/olive fork, stubby wood driver, #4 Scalpel and 6 blades, and a crescent Glass Block:

Your crescent glass block might be half of a pair of Blenko bookends.

 

[Outlawmws]

Spot on S&A! Thx!

 

[Cruzan80]

It is a Credo. Not exactly a household name but they may have made the Craftsman ones. I spent the afternoon cleaning up yesterday’s rusty finds.

Must have been the angle. What I was thinking was something more like the pic.

 

[LesserSon]

Have you seen other companies that Stanley OEM'd these for as well? I'd be very interested in knowing who they were.

Note my perforated example does not haveva logo at all. Could have been sold by any retailer. The Craftsman looks transitional between 1299 and 199. I’ve grown to distrust Craftsman utility knives. I have a crowntop that does not accept standard blades. I don’t know about other eras.

 

[3baygarage]

Looking good there gentlemen!

i was still riding high from the week’s pawn shop heist. Oops,I mean haul! Decided to try my luck at the flea market this morning.

It was a fun day! Sweltering but fun.

Found me one of those French made adjustable wrench multitools finally, and a vintage Marbles knife. The best part, each was $1 to $2. The multitool’s pretty much unused, just handled, beautifully chromed with scratches, and still has oil inside it. Tool seller I buy from often, He is usually real cheap for me, didn’t seem to know or care what he had.

The brand stamped is EJ Coles, along with France, and INOX.



The knife from another cheap seller, was in a bin of tools. He likes to play the make an offer game and accepted $5 for the knife and two tools. Ok!

 

[3baygarage]

Today’s flea cont.:

An unmarked 1/4” drive plug yay, and a really nice Wright 3/8 screwdriver socket set. Park bicycle tools, pretty complete sets of 3/8 and 1/4” vintage Mac Sabina sockets with extensions, misc Snap On, interesting Proto half moon wrench, some Craftsman,Williams,Allen,Herbrand,Husky, Kobalt, S-K, master Mechanic,Ace, Klein, eskilstuna chisel, Perfect Handle lever missing the handle!, Dunlap Mic in the case, British punch, Blue-Point tubing cutter, Vise Grips.

wrenches and pliers include some memories from back home: Diamond, Scholler (Buffalo) Stanley, old Milwaukee doe, National Plier (Buffalo), Kraueter, Craftsman, Hazet, Elora,Goodwrench, Pexto gas pliers.
Also a German one hander similar to Heller, marked Chromavan. I think there’s a tiny name on it though.

Finally a Walworth marked for NY NH &H RR.

 

[shanny19]

Got 5 of these aluminum 3-ring binders for a dollar each.
Here’s two of them after de-stickerification.

 

[ForrestT]

Today’s finds! $19. Very happy with the Klein tester and Ideal 120’ fish tape for that price.

 

[wrenchguy]

The Boss is a palm of your hand corn shucker.

 

[steaks&anvils]

Got 5 of these aluminum 3-ring binders for a dollar each.
Here’s two of them after de-stickerification.

Those are great for old tool/parts catalogs and reference materials! I like that the hinges never wear out like the plastic covered cardboard type do.

 

[RTM]

Here is my haul from 3 stops over 3 days. Unfortunately I was hoping to hit the one PacificaVette hit up thread, but apparently they decided not to do Sunday. But in the frantic searching, I found a barn sale a few miles south, not as exciting, but an excuse to take the dogs for a ride, and let them watch horses.
First stop was a local one on Friday, opened at 830, I got there at 10, appears all the decent tools were on a table marked sold. I got the chain on the bed of the truck, fairly heavy duty, give it a test here soon on a tree trunk.
Saturday we hit the Folsom Blvd Flea in Sacramento, found a few goodies, including a 62” 17# prybar, 5/8” spin tite nut driver, MKE side handle that doesn’t fit my one 1/2” magnum drill that I was hoping for, a Greene Tweed BASA split head rawhide mallet, Bon E Con 1618 DOE, Blackhawk DBE w 25/32 & 3/4” 1264, and finally, a MKE 1650-1 1/2” 450 RPM D handle drill. The chuck LH retaining screw is missing, and whacking the Allen key isn’t loosening it. Degreased, cleaned the chuck so it moves, sized it up for 3/4” pipe side handle, and found it shares a key with a different drill. Dig Into the spare key pile later.
Today’s barn sale wasn’t much, don’t know what I missed yesterday. I got an ammo can, solder sucker, two big Nicholson files, 4mm craftsman socket and extension, a Mustang 5/8” socket, Crestoloy 6” adj wrench,, Starrett hi tension hacksaw, Klein cable sheath splitting knife, Snap-on 1974 deep socket box (KTA-231b?) w lip to hang on the box, Stanley ratcheting RA screwdriver Phillips, Hyde angled putty knife, Swiss made angle tip tweezers. Somehow I also ended up with the odd screwdriver, and offset stamped wrench buried under the mallet, wondering if he tossed them in my pile, or I put them in the wrong pile while sorting thru the chaff. Also shown is a string level from several weeks back that got tangled in loose thread in my canvas bag.


In the free in a roadside toolbox (Stanley rolling stack, metal and plastic, wasn’t going to drag it for two miles while walking the dogs), I found 4 Hi Lift Stainless Steel tie downs, which should get along just fine with my trucks bed rail system.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

The Boss is a palm of your hand corn shucker.

Thanks, Mike! The palm of your hand part was obvious. The use of that hook not so much! After I cleaned it up and compared it to my Heller Brothers hoof knives, I started to doubt my initial speculation, but I never would've gotten that without help. Here are some close-ups for anyone else who has never seen one before.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Oh, and completely by koinkydink, there was a bigger corn shucker at the flea this morning.

 

[wrenchguy]

Single hole Sheller, but close enough for you east of the Appalachian mountains.

edit, There were 100's manufactures of husking/shucking pegs back in the day when corn was picked by hand. Alot of farmer made ones too. Collectible in the midwest.

 

[LesserSon]

That’s a corny remark.

 

[bmwrd0]

Nice hauls everyone. RTM, I used to love going to the Folsum Flea, found a lot of interesting stuff there over the years. A lot of characters also.

 

[LesserSon]

First thing I hit googling the patent number on that little pistol grip ratcheting bits screwdriver is a piece on Gerald Van Wyngarden's "Progress is Fine but..." vintage tools blogspot from 2014 wondering the same things as me, linked here.

Based on the comments, I guess it was part of a set that either came in a pouch or deluxe wood box. Neither Gerald or his followers located the patent, but like me, all seem to be guessing British Hong Kong.

It's pot metal and plastic, but I kinda like it.

I know it’s been a while, but I spotted/left behind this critter yesterday. It adds onboard tool storage. UK and WG design patents with a Hong Kong COO sticker.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Single hole Sheller, but close enough for you east of the Appalachian mountains.

Haha! In defense of the farm boys (slur: heevahavas) all we townie coalcrackers (less of a slur: hunkies) went to school with (granted, mainly dairy farmers), we had plenty of cornfields in Carbon County, Pennsyltucky, but the closest I ever got to them was dodging buckshot while stealing hard late autumn feed corn, which we would put in paper bags and walk around town this time of year and especially on mischief night avoiding the patrol cars throwing handfuls of it at big picture windows! It made a helluva rattle and scared the bejeebus out of whoever was sitting inside that room. It was so dry and hard we easily removed it with our hands.

 

[Old Radar]

Nice haul 3bay!

Lugz, I de-tasseled corn in high school in Indiana but that corn shucker leaves me scratching my head. How much corn can a Woodchuck shuck?

I went back to the sale with the Craftsman block grinder on the home-made stand to see if it was still there for the 50% off day. I talked the estate sale owner into letting me have just the 1/3hp grinder for $30. It's for a neighbor down the street and I didn't mind paying a bit of a premium to avoid the nasty stand and the G.E. motor. The motor was nice but I just didn't need it. (There's that "need" word again...)

The sun glare on the plastic shields is deceptive--they're actually quite clear.

On my final scan of the area I found this Lectrolite 1711R roll, missing the four smallest combos C-12, 14, 16, & 18. This caused me to spend another 30 minutes searching for them to no avail. After pointing out that the set was incomplete, they accepted my offer of $5. Wrenches and roll are in great shape and cleaned up nicely.



AA proposes manufacture dates between the late 40s and very early 50s--just prior to the association with S-K. Several of the later S-K/Lectrolite catalogs have the 1711R set depicted and they certainly bear a striking resemblance to S-K wrenches--right down to the numbering system--even the roll number--I have a 1714 S-K roll (14 wrenches) and this 1711R has 11 wrenches. Without an early Lectrolite catalog--prior to the early 50s, I don't know of a way to date these before the S-K association.

Anyway, another partial set to complete...

 

[Private Lugnutz]

but I spotted/left behind this critter yesterday.

Aw shucks, thanks for thinking of me, LS.

I de-tasseled corn in high school in Indiana but that corn shucker leaves me scratching my head

I watched a few videos. The metal went into your palm and the leather strap went over the back of your hand to help keep it secure. What I was calling a hook is apparently a peg. There is a different but similar device with a hook. The peg juts out near your thumb. You stick the peg through the husk at the bottom, and rip up the length of the ear, breaking the cob off with your other hand and peeling the ear out at the same time. Or something like that. Here is a description...

"Most corn pickers used a husking peg or hook. A husking peg and a husking hook are two different devices for removing corn shucks from the ear of corn. The peg fit across the palm of the hand just below the fingers. A small curve in its pointed end was fastened to leather that fit around the finger bases and buckled on the back of the hand. The device fit over the husking glove. The corn husker stabbed the peg into the corn shucks with one hand, slid the peg down the length of the ear and ripped the husks away, using the other hand to grasp the ear, break the ear’s shank, and throw the ear into the wagon. There were right and left handed pegs and hooks."

 

[Lesserstore]

I found this 1965 Heitmann, Bering-Cortes (a Houston hardware and tool wholesaler) catalog in my family's store (my profile thumbnail). It also included a 1964 Black and Decker mini catalog. Here's some of the pages, I might also start taking photos of the tool section in better lighting to upload to the international tool catalog library.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Alot of farmer made ones too.

Thanks, Mike. One of the videos I found was demonstrating a homemade jobbie. It was basically just a piece of wood that had been sharpened to a point on one end, with a leather strap crudely fastened on both ends.

Collectible in the midwest

I read that they were obsolete by the 40s. How old do you reckon "THE BOSS" is?

 

[gpw_42]

It's been a while since we had a jerry can spasm, so I'd like to fill the void with this FB Marketplace pickup.

This 1943 Marine Corps can was made by CONCO. The shape of the spout and the USMC stamped into the side is a fairly unusual layout for a US jerry can, following the form of the British and German (the real OG...aka originators of the design) cans of the era. I'm quite happy to pick it up, and will probably eventually trade/sell it off to a Marine collector. Meanwhile, it's too rusty inside to really use, but there are remnants of the Marine green under the silver, on the exterior.

It appeared that actually getting it was going to be an adventure (including the first GOTWA I've given in 25 years), but turned out to be a snap. Twelve hours after inquiring about the can, seller responded that it was still available. We dance through several texts, where she's not making it easy to get together (I'm starting to realize, maybe, why this can has been on FBM for 6 weeks...). Finally, about 45 minutes before dark, I get an address and "it'll be on the porch, put the money under the bear." Great, it's a 45 min. drive to the next county to get there. Stop for a burger to break a $10 so I'll have exact change to go under the bear, and I'm watching the sun go down. Getting there proves to be no issue, but it's WAY out in the sticks, halfway to the beach. Send seller a pic of the money going under the bear, snap a pic of the can and beat feet - never even turned off my truck. Close out the GOTWA after I get on the road headed home.

 

[LesserSon]

Lugz, I see those husking aids in virtually every antiques store and flea market I attend - maybe three times more common than oyster shucking knives. I think you will, too, now that you’ve acquired one. I have seen a broad-bladed, flatter version and a narrow, rolled version.
The first one I recall was one of several my grandmother had among her arsenal of kitchen gadgets when I was a child. (She had a few oyster knives, too.)
I do not clearly recall watching her using it, but she did indulge my curiosity when I was assigned the task of husking sweetcorn for a family meal. In that capacity, I found it more a hinderance than help. Realizing now that it must be for shucking dry, standing fieldcorn - in much larger volumes than a human meal - it makes more sense, given the abrasive nature of corn plant parts (silica in every member of the grass family), and goes a long way to explaining the existance of corn-huskers’ lotion. When I entered my weapon-adoring pre-teens, I had to have one, because it seemed an ideal eyeball-gouger to my then-fertile imagination, and Grandma indulged me then, too. I may still have it.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

(including the first GOTWA I've given in 25 years)

Haha! I've given several. But it's always the times I don't and I get that feeling I should have that are more memorable. Two instances come to mind. When I picked up the B.S.A. WDM20 from the guy in Virginia and his property looked like a secessionist-hermit's arsenal, my buddy - an old Army buddy - and I looked at each other like, 'maybe we should provide our coordinates to our wives,' and just recently, when a flea market acquaintance wanted to show me his collection of stuff at a hangar he rents at a small, local airport.

it'll be on the porch, put the money under the bear.

Haha! There's only three scenarios for this kind of thing. Vintage spy capers, eerie shut-ins, and COVID-19.

Stop for a burger to break a $10 so I'll have exact change to go under the bear,

Now this is the classy way to talk about prices without talking about prices.

Nice acquisition!

When I entered my weapon-adoring pre-teens, I had to have one, because it seemed an ideal eyeball-gouger to my then-fertile imagination,

I can see that. Remember when everyone had brass knuckles and nunchucks?

I see those husking aids in virtually every antiques store and flea market I attend - maybe three times more common than oyster shucking knives. I think you will, too, now that you’ve acquired one

I do concur with the phenomenon (of suddenly seeing things by the dozen you've supposedly never seen before), but in this case, I doubt it. The reason I picked it up is because I thought it might be a marlinspike palm. I misplaced my dad's years ago and, hoping to replace it, I always have these beady eyes peeled for leather things in that similar shape.

 

[mikeinri]

Brass knuckles and nunchucks, wow, that brings back memories of elementary and middle school for me. Later on, butterfly knives became the rage.

I had neither, my parents wouldn't allow that in any way. My Mom hated weapons, and my Dad knew I'd only hurt myself (and he'd have been correct)...

Mike

 

[Username already in use]

It's been a while since we had a jerry can spasm, so I'd like to fill the void with this FB Marketplace pickup.

This 1943 Marine Corps can was made by CONCO.

Nice snag on that marine expeditionary can! I've been hoping to find one for my collection, but I don't think many of them made it to the midwest.

As for the 'jerry can spasm'. I just re-read that a few days ago. Makes for a good laugh!.

I picked up a 20L plastic Sceptre can from FB Marketplace a few weeks ago. Typically they sell for ~$60, but this guy was letting it go for just $20. Nearly indestructible. These cans are great!

However, it is difficult to have a heated debate about the thickness of the walls when it's made of plastic and not metal...

 

[wrenchguy]

Not knowledgeable about shucking peg age. It brought a good amount of keystrokes, reminds me of healthy types and their daily step counts. I'm surprised at your "believing" it being farrier tool when goog images show it by searching "the boss tool". Thanks for bringing it up.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I'm surprised at your "believing" it being farrier tool when goog images show it by searching "the boss tool".

I didn't google it, Mike. That was just intuition based on it looking kinda sorta like a few antique hoof knives I have. I don't usually do any research before I post my finds, typically only the group shot, here on this thread, using knowledge/experience or intuition to briefly identify them. My MO is to use this thread to only make an initial report. Before I clean and de-rust. Then I do research, if I have to. Then I post details and individual photos on pertinent brand or type threads on the VB.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

And if I'm wrong, there's always somebody to get it right!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I was just cleaning up the rest of my finds from yesterday that needed an overnight in the Evaporust tub, so I shot some more pics of the corn husker. Since we don't have any threads for these or any old farm tools, in general, I am posting them here. Apparently, they were typically worn over work gloves, which means this one was made before child labor laws, because there is no way I could get it on over a glove.

Disclaimer: Any offensive hand signs portrayed in the demonstration of this tool are explicitly inadvertent!