2022 Garage Sale Thread

[Old Man Roger]

Oh, I'm all ears now because, like I said, I though the Tona uni joints were unique.

No worries. You know me pretty well for a new guy! (Unless you've been lurking. Or am I just too predictable?! HAHA)

I guess five years and almost 6000 post is still a newbie compared to some of you guys lol

 

[mikeinri]

Here's a quick shot of what I'd take if it were all free (or really, really cheap)...



What are the 3 items with the question marks?

Mike

 

[c1504]

I am sure you know the tru test brand is part of the Proto empire and in between you and your dad, you guys pull a pretty good vacuum! Well done

Yep I sure do. I usually pass on most Tru Test I see but this was the first time I had ever seen tin snips so I had to grab them

 

[3baygarage]

I saw a pair of those wire cutters with the green sheath a while back. Everything on the table was dirt cheap except those because the guy knew they were WWII. I can’t remember the brand.

Thanks Jeff and guys on the thumbs up.

Lugz, a couple more photos. I can’t find any patent on this u joint, and some modern ones don’t cite any by Bog.

I wanted to show marking. I can see BOG MFG Chicago. Also just wanted to point out the little stop for the spring by the male end. I would think there is some patent for it.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I guess five years and almost 6000 post is still a newbie compared to some of you guys

I meant newbie to this thread. Some of us know each other's habits so well because we've been on this thread since 2012. But that's funny. It's also kind of funny with respect to the new software, where you're a New Member for all of like 10 posts and then you're as Well Known as someone with 10,000.

saw a pair of those wire cutters with the green sheath a while back

Don's is in a sheath. Both of mine are sheathless.

I would think there is some patent for it.

Oh, I've got my inner sherlock going on this whole subject now. I may have been wrong about it being unique to Tona, but I still haven't seen another one in a US set, other than your Bog, and needless to say, they didn't last too long.

 

[Old Man Roger]

I meant newbie to this thread. Some of us know each other's habits so well because we've been on this thread since 2012.

I'm definitely a newb to this thread, but I've seen a lot of your posts in other threads for years.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

What are the 3 items with the question marks?

I don't know what the see-through plastic case to the left of the plane is or the blue plastic case. I didn't look at them. The tool to the very right of the blue plastic case is a basin wrench.

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Generally speaking, and it should probably go without saying by now, when I go to a flea market, I am not looking for modern tools, equipment or things. I am very selective. When I scan a table or paw through a box or a milk crate, I am wearing metaphorical antique/vintage lenses. Picture Predator from the movie franchise filtering out terrain, noise floor, and anomalies from animate objects and harmless animate objects from threats in different parts of the spectrum. That's what I do with a table or a milk crate without even thinking about it. If it's plastic or shiny steel or otherwise modern I completely ignore it, shoving it aside if I have to without even bothering to identify it. If it's postwar (e.g., the red pipe wrench, the red bolt cutters, most of the screwdrivers, the hacksaw, etc on this table) I know it without having to pick it up and look at it. My eyes and hands go right to the vintage and antique things only.

I am also very quick. I do not dawdle. In the spring, summer, and fall, this is mainly because there are literally hundreds of tables and several half acre area liquidator loads in milk crates on the ground to get through and, while I obviously love this hobby like a 6th child, I have a life outside of picking. I wrote rhapsodically about this fine delicate balance between depth of surveillance and speed in my "Ode to Picking" (see the link in my signature block).

I am not opposed to grabbing something practical - you may recall I bought some vintage old stock furniture touch-up sticks last week, those are for use, not for the Lugzsonian, and sometimes I even buy something practical that's modern, but you guys never seen them. I throw those in the back seat, separating them from my Garage Sale thread photo. I'm all about the collectibles here. And bargains mean nothing to me. It's not that I don't care about money. I am a miser. I almost never have more than $50 cash with me. But my idea of a good haul and a good find has nothing to do with how much something costs. I prize the rare and unusual things above all else.

but I've seen a lot of your posts in other threads for years.

Ahhhh. Yessir. Got it.

 

[Mgdoug3]

I doubt I'd spring $80 for those combination tubing wrenches, but they are really cool and I never knew they existed!

Mike

A lot of John Deere "new generation" tractors (1960s and 70s) used I think 3/16 brake lines and you need a 7/16 wrench. That was the first time I knew I needed a set of good line wrenches. Some of those lines haven't been touched in almost 60 years now. Sometimes the fittings still require heat but a normal open end or a cheap line wrench will round the nut and then you have another problem to worry about.

 

[mikeinri]

I know all about that from too many years of brake jobs up here in the salt-laden northeast. Sometimes, flare wrenches won't even work.

BTW, I looked around for those wrenches, haven't seen any sets with as many as your set shown above (excluding the duplicates), and all were at least 1.5 times as much as the $80 you spent. Great score!

Mike

 

[designer485]

As a packaging designer and someone who has taken formal drafting classes as part of my design education, this pencil sharpener caught my eye for a few reasons and brought back some memories. I am a big fan of vintage USA tool packaging and this one checks the boxes. I probably would not have noticed it at the swap meet if it weren't for the cool original box.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

That's a nice find. With your background and interests, you've probably already read it, but just in case not, I recommend The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (1990), by Henry Petroski.

 

[RTM]

As a packaging designer and someone who has taken formal drafting classes as part of my design education, this pencil sharpener caught my eye for a few reasons and brought back some memories. I am a big fan of vintage USA tool packaging and this one checks the boxes. I probably would not have noticed it at the swap meet if it weren't for the cool original box.

I left his twin brother behind Friday at an estate sale. I hardly ever use my older drafting pencils anymore, so having a second seemed foolish. But it was so tempting.

 

[WisJim]

I sold one of my pencil sharpeners like that at a garage sale this summer but kept the one in the box like this one, I bought it new in the 1960s. Just found some pencils and leads that I got at the same time as I was going through stuff after moving my desk.

 

[Outlawmws]

Yep, I still have all my old drafting stuff. Scales, triangles , templates, the old lead holders & pointers, and all the sizes of Pentel MM pencils and leads. Even the compass sets and lettering sets. I still use some of it. Got a couple of old T squares hanging up in the closet, and a cased drafting board behind the clothes.

 

[bmwrd0]

 

[LesserSon]

Can’t wait to see that upright!

 

[saukit]

Dangit Beemer, you ****!

 

[bmwrd0]

So, the story. Smokeshow PM'd me a screenshot of the ad, saying he wasn't interested. The ad was for three Craftsman boxes, two of which were three drawer heritage badge units, and the third was this. So I contacted the guy, who was only about 30 minutes north of me, and asked if it was still available. It was, we agreed to meet, and I paid him the asking price of $50.

Now I just need to get it into my basement, replace the Pressweld under my Proto LA box, and I will have two in service!

 

[txlonghorn1989]

I don't know what box that is but I'm looking forward to finding out!

 

[c1504]

For $50 you ****!

 

[Smokeshow69]

For $50 you ****!

We are so spoiled here in Oregon . My friend, a fellow collector Bmw and I know told me about this listing. He wasn’t going after it , I already have 2 of these and so I figured I would send this Bmwrd0’s way since he is in striking distance and only has one . Now if it was a Proto la tool mobile, I would have been on it

 

[txlonghorn1989]

TX what kind of Coleman stove was included in that haul? Does it work? I can tell it’s a single burner…

gpw Just saw your question. It's a backpack stove I believe. I've got another one just like it. Didn't try it to see. Here are the relevant part numbers and manufacture code. It's a No. 530 marked B46. Seems to have all the parts.

 

[Outlawmws]

Actually TX, its a US Army Platoon Stove. Infantry if you want to call that "backpacking". Post WW2, but just barely - likes to run full tilt and can be hare singing on light-up, so do that outside and follow the lighting instructions. Do NOT use regular pump gas. They say "Gasoline"; but that's WW2 Gas - which was white gas except for certain fighter planes...

 

[BlueBomber]

Scored a Craftsman 10" table saw off FB Marketplace for $50 for my daughter, who's been looking for one for a while. It is missing the original miter gauge so I added one from my own backup saw. I also fabbed her a push stick to keep her fingers attached.

 

[txlonghorn1989]

Actually TX, its a US Army Platoon Stove. Infantry if you want to call that "backpacking". Post WW2, but just barely - likes to run full tilt and can be hare singing on light-up, so do that outside and follow the lighting instructions. Do NOT use regular pump gas. They say "Gasoline"; but that's WW2 Gas - which was white gas except for certain fighter planes...

Thanks for edumacating me Outlaw! I certainly don't need two of them. I would guess these are not that rare. Oops, ebay buyers seem willing to pay. Did not know that. Always looking for woodworking hand tools in trade!

 

[Arne73]

As a packaging designer and someone who has taken formal drafting classes as part of my design education, this pencil sharpener caught my eye for a few reasons and brought back some memories. I am a big fan of vintage USA tool packaging and this one checks the boxes. I probably would not have noticed it at the swap meet if it weren't for the cool original box.

Dads is on his old drafting table.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Vintage Board guys,

Do you remember a thread that someone started for traveling pickers? The idea was if you were going on vacation, you could ask someone the good spots to hit when you were there, or on the road to that destination. And someone from that area would help you out. Someone PM'd me, and I have a fuzzy recollection of there being one like that, but I can't find it. Anybody remember?

 

[c1504]

I remember somebody starting a thread asking about places to go on his vacation but it wasn’t with the intent for everyone to ask about places to go. The thread you are talking about could have existed before my time here though or I could have totally missed it

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I very well could be conflating a couple different threads.

 

[Ole Slewfoot]

I hear there some cruise ships going on the market....
I know it's bad luck to rename, but the GJS Picker has a certain ring to it.

 

[RTM]

This is the only 1 I could find in a quick search, but its more people offering up, not an interactive forum.

And its REALLY out of date.

Best flea markets for tools!

I have been to a few in my day... Here is what I recommend, please add your own favorites. #1 Bellwood Drive in Flea market RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Off Exit 64 on Route 95. 9201 Jefferson Davis Hwy Richmond, VA 23237 $1.00 per person to enter on foot. Pack a lunch and include lots of water...

www.garagejournal.com

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I think I'm thinking of some combination of that thread or one like it, Drivesitfar's GJ MULE TRAIN thread - which was set up explicitly for transporting long-distance CL or Letgo items from one place to another by GJers, and the thread c1504 remembers. Maybe I will start one.

 

[RAS61]

Do NOT use regular pump gas. They say "Gasoline"; but that's WW2 Gas - which was white gas except for certain fighter planes...

I thought "White Gas" was lead free, and isn't all gas lead free now?

 

[Outlawmws]

I thought "White Gas" was lead free, and isn't all gas lead free now?

That does not make it "White gas." White gas is essentially pure Naphtha. Today's "Lead free" gas has a cocktail of other additives to raise octane, scrub the FI systems and what not. All that turns into "Gunk" in the generator of the lantern or stove.

The generator is essentially distilling the naphtha base out of the gasoline into a vapor gas, and that's what burns; all the stuff left over gets baked into the inside of the generator eventually plugging it. At that point its clean (if you can) or replace (if available...)

So no, "regular pump gas" is not "White gas".

 

[RTM]

I think I'm thinking of some combination of that thread or one like it, Drivesitfar's GJ MULE TRAIN thread - which was set up explicitly for transporting long-distance CL or Letgo items from one place to another by GJers, and the thread c1504 remembers. Maybe I will start one.

Here’s another one I started. Is it better to have individual cities as threads, rather than all buried in one huge thread? Or maybe a new forum for this?

Raiding the PNW for Old Tools

Hey gang, looking for a little guidance. My GF and I are considering a driving visit to Portland and Seattle, bringing the dogs along for good company. While we hope to visit some of the cider makers and other fun things the PNW has to offer, I'm looking for a potential side diversion or two...

www.garagejournal.com

 

[Private Lugnutz]

That was definitely it! Somehow I was thinking Maine, probably because there was an earlier one from years ago where someone was asking about the Liberty place.

Is it better to have individual cities as threads, rather than all buried in one huge thread? Or maybe a new forum for this?

Pros and cons. I can see eaches, as trips come up, like you did, but I can also see guys going to a centralized "Road Trip: GJ's Fodor's Picking Guide", too. But I guess I'll tell the guy who PM'd me to start his own thread.

 

[bmwrd0]

I have asked about that before, but it seems people are leery of giving up the good fishin' holes, if you know what I mean, Lugz.

That said, I am going to be in your neck of the woods in a couple of months, so I will be hitting you up for just that information.

 

[RTM]

^^^^ Which explains this.

2022 Garage Sale Thread

Oh, I'm all ears now because, like I said, I though the Tona uni joints were unique. No worries. You know me pretty well for a new guy! (Unless you've been lurking. Or am I just too predictable?! HAHA) I guess five years and almost 6000 post is still a newbie compared to some of you guys lol

www.garagejournal.com

 

[Private Lugnutz]

...but it seems people are leery of giving up the good fishin' holes, if you know what I mean, Lugz.

Haha! Guilty as charged! Too funny, too, 'cuz RagTopTA just PM'ed me to tease me about the same thing.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I will have to detail this morning's flea haul (Lugz 2022_10)...



...later this afternoon, but the highlights are the old untouchably gorgeous beat cop slapjack (we were just talking about the leather ones, this is a lead-core weighted wooden jobbie - "What...are you...prepared...to do?"), and the wartime Hamilton "41-B-1840" embossed GMTK box, which is in the best original condition I have ever seen.