Did some driving around this weekend and did not meet my goal of not buying large piles of **** just because they were *kinda* cheap. Got a few things I liked but also acquired several large sorting/uncompleted set projects, I don't know why I do that to myself! Oh well, on to the pics:
First was a garage sale that the guy was throwing while his real estate agent was doing an open house...of course he offered me all the tools on the table for $40 so instead of just taking what I needed I grabbed everything that was USA made for $13. And now I have another pile of Craftsman to organize and complete. I also got a cool old Carhartt jacket from him with a bunch of Mopar patches but figured that didn't really fit on a tool post.
Lots of craftsman wrenches...
And sockets. The little proto ratcheting wrench I liked.
Next up was an old farm house with a lot of potential but very high prices. Also not much in the way of tools, here's what I dragged out of the shed, $7 I think for these: The little ratchet is marked New Britain (NBM), but no USA stamp. Anyone know if this is USA made? Looks very similar to my 1/4 husky stuff. The Plomb 3435? was a nice surprise but unfortunately has had one end ground on both faces.
Today I elected to stop by an estate sale that I had previously avoided due to lack of pictures for anything tool related. When reading through the description again I saw that they mentioned "some" tools so I gave it a shot since I was planning to hit a few mini swap meets in the area. They had a few bins full of stuff downstairs and when I saw all of the challenger wrenches I figured they were all part of a set and just grabbed them all. Of course there were a ton of duplicates and no complete set, I should have take the time to go through them before I checked out.
The worse part was that I waited in line for quite a bit and even though it was half price day they counted every piece I had and wanted to charge me $60 some dollars for all of it. At that point I was going to put all the Challenger stuff back but when they knocked it down to $40 I paid up. I'm not too thrilled with the deal but there were a few things other than the Challenger wrenches that I don't see often.
Here's the challenger, 3-4 multiples in a number of the smaller sizes, the duplicates are piled above their size in the laid out set.
Here's the stuff that made the sale worth it and took a bit of the sting off my ineptitude with the wrenches, 4 different Proto adjustables, 3 plastic handle drivers and 3 9704s.
Also some SK stuff in nice shape and a few other bits.
Finally, there are a few impromptu swaps that show up when it's sunny and I try to go by when I'm down south as you never know what you'll find. I spent around $10 for this stuff, of course neither of the ratchets work but I'm hoping I can get them running. The big P&C is a 2232.
