2022 Garage Sale Thread

[Caleb T]

Hey everyone! It's been a while since I've been Active on here.. I figured this was the perfect thread to visit and add a sweet little swap shop find. Not sure that I'll end up keeping it, but I just couldn't leave it there. It looks like it's seen almost no use in it's life. Maye a couple of the smallest sockets. I gave a quick damp wipe down of the case, but it would be near excellent with a little cleaner and a rag. JC penney branded case with a complete Penncraft set nestled inside. Not a bad pickup for $12 I think.

 

[mikeinri]

Very nice, @Caleb T!

I have no clue how to date those, but the case screams 1980s to me somehow.

Mike

 

[Caleb T]

Very nice, @Caleb T!

I have no clue how to date those, but the case screams 1980s to me somehow.

Mike

I don't know either! My dad was thinking 70's. We were talking about the days when Penny's had hardware, tools, guns/outdoors gear, etc... My dad got his first gun there back in the day.

 

[Outlawmws]

ONE stop (I went to a dead end Late opener later...) Passed on a decent but $$ Prentise swivel ase, swivel jaw. No Number? 5" jaws I think.

I did find some "compensatory" tools: 5 Better Grip Drivers 1 adapted chipping hammer, Proto? Plastic face hammer - The handle is half out and stuck, , 3 Toyota DOEs, 3 Vlchek, DOEs, Nylon Abrasive wheel BE's, Eclips DOE, Bell System Drivers -Irwin, Mic? Stand.





the Irwin is a Bell System Driver:



And I thought the better Grips were the win, til I uncovered: (My First I think?)

 

[cmccuist1]

Went to an estate sale In Galveston, TX. It was the last day so everything was half price. They had $300 listed on this really cool coin sorter. So I offered them $100 and they said sure. It works great! It’s a Klopp model J.

 

[mikeinri]

I don't know either! My dad was thinking 70's. We were talking about the days when Penny's had hardware, tools, guns/outdoors gear, etc... My dad got his first gun there back in the day.

Your Dad may be right, check this out:

JC Penney and Montgomery Ward (POWR-KRAFT) Tools wish book pages

What is amazing is that the prices have not gone up that much. Tools are less expensive now than back then. That is for sure. From 1970 JC PENNEY 1966 JCPENNEY 1976 JCPENNEY Whoops How did that get in there? 1981 MONTGOMERY WARD

www.garagejournal.com

I honestly don't remember much about the 70s (too young), but I'd thought plastic cases showed up later.

Mike

 

[four.cycle]

^ plastic cases go back to the early 1960s. I'd go with 1970s on that Penncraft set myself. Nice stuff - New Britain made.

 

[3baygarage]

Excellent hauls guys!

Don, I was admiring your Carll wrench and thinking how I hope to find one in the wild.

Well, the day Came sooner than I thought.


I bailed on the flea market for a tool sale. Glad I did! I thought it would be a table of tools but was more like three rows of tools. Farm property, it was the third day of the sale. A cool lady who runs estate sales and collected a lot of tools along the way, plus some of her father's stuff.

 

[3baygarage]

Two hours, a lot of digging, and 40 bucks later...



Lots of older Craftsman. A nice bunch of extensions.Even the cross bar for the 1/4” breaker.
a group of Armstrong



The 3/4 open gear ratchet surprised me. Vi Chrome! Only found two Vi Chrome sockets for it.



some Snap-On in there

 

[Outlawmws]

I'm thinking some suckage is in there...

3Bay, I think the little 4" square is Starrett.

 

[3baygarage]

I might have to work on cleaning that up Outlaw. Didn‘t notice a name when I grabbed it. The little metal level next to it is a Starrett, but the liquid is gone. Some well used stuff.

 

[3baygarage]

Several left behinds, as Lugz likes to say.


a little while after taking this a family came and bought the bike, then the lady realized the buyer knocked it over and damaged it. Oh well, he bought it. Glad it wasn't me.

 

[unkqty]

$25 FB MP buy. United States Electrical Tool Co. bench grinder with stand. Has neat sequential serial number. LOL. It turns 8x1" wheels, 1/2hp. 6.6 amp, with added Craftsman light. 1939 information @ V-M.org indicates this "Heavy Duty" Model 8 weighs 115lbs and cost $90. Could be a early war effort machine.

VERY nice

 

[Raineman]

3Bay...you ****.

 

[Raineman]

Time to wrap up my winter eBay splurge, finally got the latest package (even though I just made another purchase an hour ago)

I went a little stir crazy adding to my metric MAC combo set, and got a few other items.
MAC 19,15,14, 9/16 combos, MAC plug gapper and DOE. MAC 1/2” flare nut combo and jewel of the haul Snap on 11/16 flare nut combo.

 

[d42jeep]

We went to a Berkeley neighborhood sale and found these. The well used unmarked spinner looks familiar but I can’t quite ID it.
After that disappointing experience, we headed towards the badlands to the wilds of San Lorenzo. That estate sale was somewhat more rewarding. A couple of Williams ratchets, some Klein drivers, some Vaco nutdrivers and some others currently bathing in evaporust.
-Don

I cleaned up the Klein drivers.

And spent some time on the 3/4” drive Williams ratchet.


The extremely low prices were offset by using a few gallons of gas, unfortunately.

 

[Raineman]

Finally slowing down at work and arranged to take my first Saturday off in months to coincide with TWO local flea markets to start the season here, and…..we had a blizzard today. Damn the storm, I went. Here is the day’s finds. All pictured before any cleanup or evaporust.

3 Meteor ignition wrenches
Wright 9/16 combo
Cornwell 7/16 combo
Indestro DBE
Indestro 1/2” tappet
Bonney 9/16 combo 6 point
Snappy 7/16 combo
Proto 11/32 combo




Craft King phillips 1 & 2 (quick glance I thought they were Craftsman)
CS Osborne hog ring pliers (needed these for my Chevelle restoration)
SK Wayne 5/16 8 point 1/4 drive socket
Kraeuter pliers


Craftsman V 1/4 ratchet
Husky 1/2 ratchet with anvil
Craftsman 1/2 locked up tight
Gray Canada
Cornwell 3/8

Some ERTL die cast banks, Lesney Matchbox (for my collection) Radio Shack 300ZX, and a P51 and F6F cause I dig WWII fighters.


All total I spent $24.50.
Feels good to get back in the game.

 

[3baygarage]

Nice job on the Williams Don. I feel obligated to add that the ring mark around the handle is extremely common on their 3/4 ratchets. At least we know they were consistent during plating.

 

[3baygarage]

Nice Husky rat Raineman! And a Gray too, even better.

 

[Raineman]

Thanks, Gotta play catch-up with you and a bunch of others. Cleaning under way.

 

[BlakeTheCarGuy]

Part one of two posts due to picture count. Craftsman Toolbox. Guessing probably mid 1970s but correct me if I’m wrong. $65 took that. Tons of wrenches all kinds of brands mainly Proto and Wardmaster for the small ones and the big ones it’s a total mix of Bonney, Indestro, McKaig-Hatch INC which I have never heard of ever. Even a long C Craftsman DOE 11/16x19/32. Thoresen ratchet. Proto T-bar. Duralast adapter 1/2 to 3/4. Proto brake pliers, Plomb DBE, Indestro half moon wrench. Tow hammers for the collect a Great Neck and Popular Mechanics. I collect anything that’s vintage Popular Mechanics I really like their stuff. If anyone has any extra keys laying around for the old Craftsman boxes let me know please. I need one for the bottom and would like an extra for the top.

 

[BlakeTheCarGuy]

Part 2 of 2. Really old Snap-on ratchet. That’s the find I’m most proud of. Number 71N. Also attached to it was a 9/16 socket with a notch cut out of each side. Found that an interesting modification would love to hear the story of the socket and ratchet. $3 took the Snap-on. Then a DOE 27mmx32mm DIN wrench. Two speed handles the chrome one is a Walden the rusty one has not yet been identified.

Edit to add: two older baseball gloves for my baseball glove collection.

 

[mikeinri]

Wow, I grew up using a set of those Craftsman drill bits with the red plastic case!

(Almost) too much suckage on this page, boys!

Mike

 

[Raineman]

Blake, SWEET 71N rat!

 

[Caleb T]

Two hours, a lot of digging, and 40 bucks later...



Lots of older Craftsman. A nice bunch of extensions.Even the cross bar for the 1/4” breaker.
a group of Armstrong



The 3/4 open gear ratchet surprised me. Vi Chrome! Only found two Vi Chrome sockets for it.



some Snap-On in there

Not only is that a big "you ****!", but I would love some pics of the Craftsman multi tool. I've never seen a craftsman branded one.

 

[RTM]

Edit to add: two older baseball gloves for my baseball glove collection.

Those gloves aren’t older, they are the ones my cool friends had. I had some cheap no name.

 

[Mcorr6]

Another sale, another deal. These were from an online auction that I forgot about till the very last minute! I logged on and there was 7min left. Snagged the bandsaw for $68 and Wilton Pow-R-Arm for $7. The Wilton has been attached to the base of a desk chair. I pick them up Monday. Had to buy based only on pics, so I took a bit of a chance. We'll see, sorry for the pics, they were the best I can do till I get them to the house. I'm not real familiar with the Pow-R-Arms, anyone have one that can tell me if it's missing anything?

 

[txlonghorn1989]

Those gloves aren’t older, they are the ones my cool friends had. I had some cheap no name.

I was just thinking about that last week. My friends had Wilson and Spalding gloves while I had a Regent glove that we got with S&H green stamps. Never bothered me then and doesn't now. I was proud to just have a glove of my own.

 

[d42jeep]

Part 2 of 2. Really old Snap-on ratchet. That’s the find I’m most proud of. Number 71N. Also attached to it was a 9/16 socket with a notch cut out of each side. Found that an interesting modification would love to hear the story of the socket and ratchet. $3 took the Snap-on. Then a DOE 27mmx32mm DIN wrench. Two speed handles the chrome one is a Walden the rusty one has not yet been identified.

Edit to add: two older baseball gloves for my baseball glove collection.

Looks like my Cesar Cedano autograph model that I still take with me to Giants games. I bring it despite my life long record of never catching a foul ball. My 34 yr old daughter is two ahead of me.
-Don

 

[mikeinri]

My very first glove was a hand-me-down from my uncle, and had to date back to the 1950s. It had almost no padding, I really hated that thing.

Mike

 

[BlueBomber]

I went to a commercial woodshop clean out in my town. They had two locations and were shutting this one down to consolidate. It was a small, family-run operation, and a big fraction of the stuff for sale was quality hardwood remnants, from boards to partial sheets. They also had some tools for sale, and that's where I spent my time.

I dug through a tub of hand tools and pulled out the following items:

Channellock 420 pliers
Craftsman 941584D flat blade screwdriver
Mohawk Model 127 pneumatic drill
Vicegrips, 7R
Starrett No 4 slotted rule, no sign of the combination square accessories
No-name tiling corner tool
No-name vintage 4-foot bar clamp--no markings other than a "4" cast into one end
Babco 36" squeeze clamp





I then asked for a price on a nicely preserved Delta 37-190 jointer. "$100" was the answer, and when I asked the lady to throw in the above tools at that price, she said "Sold!"



I've been slowly migrating from vintage Craftsman to newer Delta equipment as I find good deals, so it's now time to pass the C-man jointer I've never used in four years on to someone who will.

 

[txlonghorn1989]

Picked this up yesterday off CL - Wilton C0 combination vise. My first time to even see one of the Wilton combination vises in the flesh. It's in pretty good used condition. I can see why people like these Wilton combo vises...very beefy!

 

[revolution337]

Local small automotive shop going out of business. By the time I got there, most of the good stuff had already been picked through. I was able to snag this USA made Craftsman tool box filled with drill bits (mostly Whitman & Barnes) up to 1/2". Most of them look very lightly used, some look NOS still in the packaging. Also got a Jacobs 1/2" drill press chuck, and a pair of large C-clamps (one Wilton: USA, one Fuller: Japan)

 

[3baygarage]

Today I focused on cleaning up a few of the items from yesterday’s haul.

I'm thinking some suckage is in there...

3Bay, I think the little 4" square is Starrett.

It is definitely a Starrett. Cleaned it up a lil bit.

Not only is that a big "you ****!", but I would love some pics of the Craftsman multi tool. I've never seen a craftsman branded one.

It would be a nice piece but...it was in the woman’s scrap bucket. I had it in the Evaporust just to get the blades freed up. I think I used to see them in the store along with the pocket knives. It would be nice to find a replacement plier head.



A few items that I messed with so far. Several more soaking.

 

[mikeinri]

@revolution337 Hopefully you got a great deal on that, being that you were scraping the bottom? I have one of those Craftsman plastic boxes, they're great. The Jacobs chuck makes that extra-sucky...

Mike

 

[PacificaVette]

I found this Porter-Cable router at an estate sale on Saturday. The seller thought it was a buffing tool, and was confused when I asked if there were any bits available, as I couldn't find any. I 've never owned a router before, so I'll have to figure out what I'm doing---it should be a good learning experience. I got it for $10, so it's no great loss if I don't ever get around to using it.

 

[mikeinri]

Just to help the ****-ometer...

@BlakeTheCarGuy ***** for the Craftsman stack, nevermind the tools assortment.

@Raineman ***** for one of the better-spent $25 I've seen in a while. Radio Shack and other nostalgia is always fun.

@3baygarage ***** for making $40 explode into all sorts of cool tools.

And of course, @Caleb T absolutely ***** for that mint-looking JC Penny / Penncraft complete setup, especially at $12...

Mike

 

[wrenchguy]

$60 FB MP purchase today, early 1920's J.B. Wallace "Bench Saw". Uncommon machine, I only found 1 other online at V-M.org. No belts, "gear drive".

1924 ad

video.

 

[revolution337]

@revolution337 Hopefully you got a great deal on that, being that you were scraping the bottom? I have one of those Craftsman plastic boxes, they're great. The Jacobs chuck makes that extra-sucky...

Mike

Paid $40 for all of it. I was mainly interested in the box with all the drill bits, and the owner said $40 for that. I walked around some more and found those two C-clamps as well, and asked if he'd do $40 for the bits as well as the two clamps. He agreed.

 

[mikeinri]

Then you definitely ****! That's an awful lot of drill bits!

Mike