2022 Garage Sale Thread

[MisterEd]

Argh!

 

[MisterEd]

Yep, you win @Private Lugnutz

 

[Bockscar]

Picked this up the other weekend

 

[Old Radar]

See? I knew someone would need them! Consider them yours. From the hands of the 2019 host to the hands of the 2018 host to the hands of the 2022 host. Not purdy, unfortunately. Interestingly, for cheap thin nose slip-joints, they do have a little knurling on the ends of the handles, and they're branded on both sides!

Thanks, Lugz!!
I'll PM you later--I'm out the door to another sale!

 

[gpw_42]

I'm going to guess that it would have been royally funny.

Same clue, different path: I went down the path of Dugout Doug, rather than royalty. The only place my nugget goes on royalty is Diana, and that doesn't do any good, anymore.

 

[RTM]

That lower picture now makes more sense. I was trying to mentally use the point itself, and the obvious answer escaped me. Need to look in my catalog for that function.

 

[RTM]

OK, dipping the toes into the holiday weekend, trying to sneak out before the tourists clog the highway. Went to a Friday start at a routine vendor. He was having two guest sellers, nothing at their spots.

top to bottom
Chef's knife from Henckels (maybe), matches the home supply, so now we have a spare or backup, depending on how busy the kitchen gets.
Browning ratchet driver, with a 3/8" square drive, it was hiding under the Apex 830 adapter. Wondering if its one of these aviation tools discussed in this thread. I think I bought some square bits in a previous box lot. The ratchet reversing disk is bit wonky, may need some cleaning. Seems to be a plastic handle under the dark cover.
Snap-on Phillips screw starter, stubby version.
Williams long skinny needle nose.

Left behind a Diamalloy wide nosed pliers with a bent jaw

Edit: Added new info

 

[d42jeep]

I finally got to the bottom of the old wooden box that contained a bunch of auger bits from a moving sale on Saturday. Besides the horseshoes, here are some items I couldn’t identify.
-Don

 

[RTM]

The center is a handle for a two man tree saw, or converting a one man to a 2 man. Couple of different flavors out there.

Here is an Atkins catalog with about 5 pages following this one.

E. C. Atkins & Co. : Saws, Saw Tools, Mill Specialties : 1914 : E. C. Atkins & Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

260 p., illus., 23.9 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

Might be a flavor of this one, No 29T

E. C. Atkins & Co. : Saws, Saw Tools, Mill Specialties : 1914 : E. C. Atkins & Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

260 p., illus., 23.9 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

Similar selection here

The Simonds Saws & Knives : 1912 : Simonds Manufacturing Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

176 p., illus., 23.1 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

What does the center of the other tool pair look like, down into the mechanism?

 

[alinc100]

One sale today. Advertised well, priced like the last minute of an Ebay Auction. Managed to grab these two items and they wasn't as cheap as I usually spend, I just can't leave some single wrenches behind:

 

[Smokeshow69]

I'm going to guess that it would have been royally funny.

Are you the “king” of dad jokes in your house? I have a pretty good pun game in my house and at work

 

[jeffmoss26]

Here is the other side of the mug lol

 

[d42jeep]

The center is a handle for a two man tree saw, or converting a one man to a 2 man. Couple of different flavors out there.

Here is an Atkins catalog with about 5 pages following this one.

E. C. Atkins & Co. : Saws, Saw Tools, Mill Specialties : 1914 : E. C. Atkins & Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

260 p., illus., 23.9 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

Might be a flavor of this one, No 29T

E. C. Atkins & Co. : Saws, Saw Tools, Mill Specialties : 1914 : E. C. Atkins & Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

260 p., illus., 23.9 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

Similar selection here

The Simonds Saws & Knives : 1912 : Simonds Manufacturing Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

176 p., illus., 23.1 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

What does the center of the other tool pair look like, down into the mechanism?

Amazing! Thanks. I’ll get some more pictures of the other thingies soon.
-Don

 

[Outlawmws]

OK, I snuk out of the house at 8 while everyone was sleeping for 45 min. and it was the only sale (house clean out) by a guy I've gotten to know (got his name today...)

Left behind: a Craftsman 150 DP in decent shape other than surface rust. in the big back yard shop. I think he was a contractor as he had a couple of T saws, a Radial arm, and a lot of deck paraphernalia, around. I know I could have gotten the DP for a song but WAY past my lifting limit, and no space for another... Esp since I already have at least 2 to finish and sell, (adn another to sell after the Canedy Royal is completed...)

But for $15 4 Wood clamps (the smallest is 12" the big one is 16



Then another #5 Whitney Jr, (I should have enough not for one pair

 

[oak_park]

Kinda slim pickins, here are 2 recent finds...

Wards Master Quality 1/4 set.....think its missing 2 sockets, but not sure. The similiar Indestro set I recently found had 9 sockets.

Greenlee Auger bit style letter opener from 1962 celebrating their 100th year. Was just sitting in a coffee mug at the sale.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Was just sitting in a coffee mug at the sale.

Cool find.

 

[LesserSon]

With the best intentions, I loaded my dad, LesserDaughter2 & her boyfriend into the car this morning, and drove them to the Stockyards Flea Market just south of Athens (& Sayre) PA. It’s a pleasant drive, but unfortunately, aside from the scenery, nonproductive. Haven’t been there since before COVID, and it seems the open days no longer include Saturdays. Indeed, the physical on-site sign just says “Monday,” whereas online images of the same sign still show “Monday & Saturday.”
Later, I tagged along with MrsLS & my dad on a run to Walmart, and spotted a garage sale in Mansfield and stopped at a microflea along Rt6 on the way back. Still no purchases, but the leftbehinds included a 3-1/2” stationary Hollands vise, a Winchester S-DOE, and this Cross Country bug sprayer.

 

[Outlawmws]

Wow, can't be bothered to fix the website? That's bad...

Was the Winchester DOE silly $?

Slow here and a recent (an hour before?) posted Estate sale lied. (and had the map set completely different than the address and directions posted..)


First stop and a TOO:

Klien insulated Robertson Drive, Copper crimp sleeves, A Wright 3/4" impact, and an old Vlchek DOE. $3 all

 

[3baygarage]

Nice letter opener!

RTM- that’s a Browning driver. Guessing there is a cover over the handle as you said.

 

[3baygarage]

Hit a tool heavy sale today. Thought I got there early enough as it wasn’t far. Turned out early bird CBacres beat me there. I saw his truck out front and sho nuff he was #1 in there and I was #2. Always good to see my buddy. There was only a third guy for the longest time. We had pretty good dibs on things.
CB got the two coolest things there. One I was after, and one he pulled out of the pile that we both overlooked for the longest.

I left with a bucket full but nothing to scream about. Really nothing rare or that unusual like I was hoping. Prices were fair, the lone seller was a cool guy so we had some good convo. The garage was packed with tools, many vintage, and hardware, but I have to say the tools were heavily worn and well used. I think the PO was a used tool picker, or scrap picker, by all the metal tidbits around.

overhead shot of part of the haul, I’ll let the photos do most of the talking.

Ontario machete, otc plate puller, torque multiplier, Blackhawk hub puller

first thing i grabbed was the Snappy



old craftsman nipper on top

mount fabric tool and saw vise?

blue grass hammer head and Shapleigh’s hardware hatchet head. There were a number of loose axe/hatchet heads
American Pipe Tool Co.

Williams raised lettering logo. I like it. Interesting enough of a doe to grab.

 

[RTM]

mount fabric tool and saw vise?

.

Actually a leather working vise, not a saw vise. Found an ad for a home leather repair kit that included it. I have two flavors, one flat mount, one edge mount.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

CB got the two coolest things there. One I was after, and one he pulled out of the pile that we both overlooked for the longest.

We're going to need details to make this statement meaningful.

the tools were heavily worn and well used.

...and, apparently, very blue! (The spraybomb-everything-"my"-color thing is a proprietary marking technique I will never understand.)

Really nothing rare or that unusual

Um, excuse me, but I beg to differ on the...

Blue grass hammer head and Shapleigh’s hardware hatchet head.

In fifteen years of picking I have still never found any tool with a Blue Grass logo and only one Shapleigh's. Probably regional, but still, nice finds in my book.

 

[Outlawmws]

We're going to need details to make this statement meaningful.

...and, apparently, very blue! (The spraybomb-everything-"my"-color thing is a proprietary marking technique I will never understand.)

Um, excuse me, but I beg to differ on the...

In fifteen years of picking I have still never found any tool with a Blue Grass logo and only one Shapleigh's. Probably regional, but still, nice finds in my book.

Painting tools I understand and can add color to (no pun intended...) if you work construction, or other places with lots of tools left out only half attended to, or, like I had to contend with in the pits at race tracks, having a uniquely painted set of tools meant fewer "grew legs". and honest;y, I'm sure some were not intentional lifts. at least at the race tracks... Lots of "Volunteer help" for small time racers. While I was on one crew, if things were crazy I might work on 4-5 different cars in one night. Everyone tended to pitch in.

Mine were painted a very unique translucent blue; an over coat for a silver base that used to be popular ba ck in the 70's. Not mrtsllick but very vivid - -it worked well on chromed tools.

My buddy's were Ferrari red, his dads, a dark blue. the company they both worked for painted everything the company orange...

I'm with you on the Blue Grass and Shapleigh's though, Nada, Zip, None...

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Painting tools I understand and can add color to (no pun intended...)

Good point (workplace environments), Outlaw. I would just prefer a stripe or ring neck, I suppose, which I do run into from time to time. But I can see there being use cases where it's necessary.

 

[d42jeep]

When I went to grab the flea market bag this morning my garage frog was sitting in my chair.



The first sale was by far the best. I was picking through the rusty tools and my wife pointed out a decent Kennedy cantilever box that I had missed. Here is the haul from that sale. Plenty of rusty auger bits for me to clean up.
The 1/2” drive tools are Craftsman circle H.
A few more sales netted some more tools.
Craftsman crown carry box with tray
Kennedy tray
-Don

 

[3baygarage]

Actually a leather working vise, not a saw vise. Found an ad for a home leather repair kit that included it. I have two flavors, one flat mount, one edge mount.

Thank you. Probably why it was there along with the other tool. It isn't as wide as the usual saw bench mount vises either. There are a number of similar vises on eBay listed as saw vises. No patent info found yet.

Lugz-, I'll see if he wants to post his treasures.

 

[PacificaVette]

There weren't many good sales around here today. I did find a few things at an estate sale that was going for 50% off.
The tools aren't in great condition, but they should clean up just fine. First, a Peterson Vise-Grip, because you can't have too many of those in the drawer. Second, a Craftsman 3/8" drive ratchet. I like the socket removal feature on that model. I have a similar one made by Allen, which I've used for years. Next, yet another Proto 4889 1/2" drive ratchet. I don't know why I keep buying these, because I have 3 of them already, but I've never paid more than $3 for any of them. Last, a Craftsman LARGE blade screwdriver. $10 for the bunch. Not too bad...

 

[LesserSon]

Wow, can't be bothered to fix the website? That's bad...

Was the Winchester DOE silly $?

AFAIK, this flea doesn’t own a website - just represented on review sites like Yelp. The one other time I was there was a Monday.
The Winchester was indoors, marked $8; the logo stamp only clearly read “Winc” so I passed. I’ve got a few Winchester tools, but I’m not trying to build a collection.

 

[bmwrd0]

Sigh. I can't quit you. It seems that as soon as I say something like that, good stuff pops out of the woodwork.

An old timer, a model A and military vehicle man, was divesting his collection of tools and parts. All of the buyers were very polite, unlike the man's daughters. In any case, I found a Proto LA torque wrench, Snap-on ratchet and spinner, Plomb ratchet and spinner, OTC spinner, a handful of small wrenches (including a Proto LA long 1/4"!), and this:

A homemade toolbox full of Ford wrenches, Winchester and perfect handle drivers, and a bearing scraper:

There was no way I was passing that up!

The next two sales were not as good as they looked online, but I found a few things:

One stop yielded the two miniature slip joints and the two dowl cutters (sans blades, but dirt cheap), while the next stop was where I found the winged Allen keys and chisel handles.

Today, I planned on getting some stuff done around the house, but the wife made sure I got out of the house, per our agreement (see, it isn't me doing this!) and I half-heartedly hit four stops, looking at a bunch of junk or overpriced junk. But, I did find one thing cheap enough to follow me home:

A South Bend 9inch. It is in pretty good condition, as it is covered in dirty oil, very little rust, but the belt adjust lever is broken (I might use a perfect handle for a fix. This is going to replace my 6inch Craftsman, which will, in turn, pay for a set of change gears and other tooling that I will need. This cost me a total of $150. I just couldn't pass it up at that price, especially as I had been thinking about looking for one.

 

[RTM]

Today's haul was all from unknown entities, knew nothing of tools at any of them. Eight stops advertised across three different media sources, scored at three. First was a perennial seller, occasionally decent tools. Second was a guy cleaning out his storage unit, sound and light guy, last was a family moving two blocks north.

The haul, left to right. 5/16" Tee Allen wrench, Williams 2441 spinner, safety harness carabineer, Roberts soft faced hammer, SK screwdriver, unknown 1/4" socket box, Lectrolite 13/16 & 7/8" DBE, Vaco offset screwdriver, Stanley Yankee Ratcheting Right angle screwdriver, MPC and Mayhew? punch, Ridgid angled pipe wrench, 5x Ullman screw starters, 3x Hitco screwdrivers, include a 3P and 4P right angle phillips driver, 3 pairs 3M safety glasses IOP, XCelite fine screwdriver, Proto hose clamp pliers, unmarked StaKon? crimper, Zircon stud finder, Irwin bellhangers 1/2" brace bit .

 

[cbacres]

We're going to need details to make this statement meaningful.

...and, apparently, very blue! (The spraybomb-everything-"my"-color thing is a proprietary marking technique I will never understand.)

Heres my haul that Threebay was talking about.

Some kind of a blue ratchet.
A 1” Snap on sliding tee breaker.
Blue point reversible snap ring pliers (thank god I found before 3bay did).
3/4” Craftsman sliding tee breaker.
Couple of adjustable set up blocks for the mill.

I did get a few others, but stowed away before thinking of snapping some pics. One was a large wood handle pin vise.




Blue rat is a older Proto 5949,it does have some pebbling on the other side under all that paint. It works fine in both directions.


The Snap On bar was hiding under other long items, as 3 bay mentioned, it was overlooked by both of us multiple times.

Always good running into you 3bay, wished I could of hung around, but needed to get my daughters tire replace.

And thanks for removing the temptation of me leaving with more than I did by putting in your pile.

Speaking of which, more than once someone thought they hit gold when they found 3 bays bucket. I had to tell someone a few times it’s was taken. I’ll admit, I wondered if he’d miss a couple of little things!

 

[Moldyjim]

In the words of the late twentieth century philosopher B. Spears, Whoops! I did it again...

We went out to get coffee and hit a few garage sales this morning. Almost all were waste of time, but one made up for the others.

First I found a battery operated K9 from the Dr Who show to go with my robot butler.

Then I found an old long C Craftsman box.
Pretty beat up with a broken leather handle.

Inside was a mostly complete early 1/2" drive Craftsman socket set. The ratchet is marked patent pending and I believe all the bits are there. Ratchet works and has some rust but not enough to matter. The sockets will need some work. It's 1930's Era? Even has the little spring ball to locate the change lever.
A set of box end wrenches JC Penny's or Wards.
A couple misc SK and SO sockets and a ball Penny. Almost quit there, but saw another tool set. SK sockets and box some misc deep wells and extentions but no ratchet.
A #5 Bailey 14 plane with a plastic knob...
A nice Lufkin combo set and a beautiful cast iron level by a name I don't recognize. Unfortunately one end is broke clean off at the cross level. Sad face.
1/6" number set (tiny). A bent adjustable wrench and a cool old hacksaw. The only ID marks are cast in stars on both sides of the frame.
A pair of old brand Channel locks, with the French sounding branding.
The biggest surprise for me was the ugly as sin vinyl case (looks like a hunk of meat).
I passed it by more than once, walked by it one last time and opened it up. It is a Craftsman socket tool set. Some rust but surprisingly the only tool missing is the Philips screwdriver. Even the two 10mm sockets are there!
I cleaned it up and sprayed ArmorAll liberally and worked it in. Fairly clean and supple now. It most likely was in the trunk of the car for years and showed it.
I had some more but that's enough for now.

I went to pay and the lady tentatively ask for $20.
Oky doky!

I would have paid more but she set the price.

The week before I paid $22 for a bucket full of newer Craftsman sockets and ratchets, probably a big set with 1/4, 3/8, and 1/2 ratchets. In metric, English, 6 and 12 point and deepwell sockets too.

Surprisingly my wife didn't smack me around about buying more tools this time.

 

[Moldyjim]

In the words of the late twentieth century philosopher B. Spears, Whoops! I did it again...

We went out to get coffee and hit a few garage sales this morning. Almost all were waste of time, but one made up for the others.

First I found a battery operated K9 from the Dr Who show to go with my robot butler.

Then I found an old long C Craftsman box.
Pretty beat up with a broken leather handle.

Inside was a mostly complete early 1/2" drive Craftsman socket set. The ratchet is marked patent pending and I believe all the bits are there. Ratchet works and has some rust but not enough to matter. The sockets will need some work. It's 1930's Era? Even has the little spring ball to locate the change lever.
A set of box end wrenches JC Penny's or Wards.
A couple misc SK and SO sockets and a ball Penny. Almost quit there, but saw another tool set. SK sockets and box some misc deep wells and extentions but no ratchet.
A #5 Bailey 14 plane with a plastic knob...
A nice Lufkin combo set and a beautiful cast iron level by a name I don't recognize. Unfortunately one end is broke clean off at the cross level. Sad face.
1/6" number set (tiny). A bent adjustable wrench and a cool old hacksaw. The only ID marks are cast in stars on both sides of the frame.
A pair of old brand Channel locks, with the French sounding branding.
The biggest surprise for me was the ugly as sin vinyl case (looks like a hunk of meat).
I passed it by more than once, walked by it one last time and opened it up. It is a Craftsman socket tool set. Some rust but surprisingly the only tool missing is the Philips screwdriver. Even the two 10mm sockets are there!
I cleaned it up and sprayed ArmorAll liberally and worked it in. Fairly clean and supple now. It most likely was in the trunk of the car for years and showed it.
I had some more but that's enough for now.

I went to pay and the lady tentatively ask for $20.
Oky doky!

I would have paid more but she set the price.

The week before I paid $22 for a bucket full of newer Craftsman sockets and ratchets, probably a big set with 1/4, 3/8, and 1/2 ratchets. In metric, English, 6 and 12 point and deepwell sockets too.

Surprisingly my wife didn't smack me around about buying more tools this time.

 

[Outlawmws]

BMW if that box was truly "Home made" it was made by a master -I see metal forming details that to me scream factory...

Super deal on the SB!

Good point (workplace environments), Outlaw. I would just prefer a stripe or ring neck, I suppose, which I do run into from time to time. But I can see there being use cases where it's necessary.

Yep I made some efforts on mine masking off the wrench heads for instance, so t looked a lot better than just the indiscriminate spray bomb so often seen... I also cleaned and heated the tools slightly to get better adhesion, and it worked! > 40 years later, some of them still retain the paint; some chipping of course, but mostly there.

 

[bmwrd0]

It is really common around here to find 1/4" Craftsman socket boxes from the 50s-60s sprayed blue. All up and down the valley. I am pretty sure someone like Weyerhaeuser had all the shop-owned tools sprayed like this. They don't care as it is just a tool to them, a budget item. They sure aren't going to take the time to put a strip on them, a mass spray is easier.

Outlaw, it screams shop modified sideboard box to me. But, in any case, it has been down the road of modification so long as to be folk art.

 

[3baygarage]

That big Proto pebble ratchet sure is ugly. I can guarantee it would look better over here, with the other ugly blue tools. Still trying to figure out how that 1” Snap-On came out of the clear blue at the end too.

Like I said earlier, you exercised some self control there. Hopefully I lost a pound or two sweating in that garage for two hours.

 

[RTM]

One stop yielded the two miniature slip joints and the two dowl cutters (sans blades, but dirt cheap),

Those are tenon cutters, for turning round tenon's on the ends of thing. Could make short dowels, but not the official usage.

 

[Jim_No_Garage]

So Mrs_N_G and I hit several sales today and we picked up a few things.

At one sale a brother and sister were emptying out the ancestral home as Mom and Dad are going into assisted living. The Mrs spotted a MCM lamp in the family room. She checked in with our son and he said "Buy it!". It's in ok shape - the brass "plating" is rusted and one of the light swivels is cracked but otherwise it's in fair shape for having been in that location for 50+ years.



I was chatting with the sister and found a pair of pliers - Vacuumgrip #386 diagonal pliers for $1.00






Cheers

Jim

 

[Outlawmws]

Outlaw, it screams shop modified sideboard box to me. But, in any case, it has been down the road of modification so long as to be folk art.

Shop modified I don't doubt one bit BMW; that's clear from the pics - Possibly even repaired or replaced drawers? - but the raised panel on top, and the beading and rounded corners and edges are not trivial for basic sheet metal working tools.

Post some detailed pics in the Vintage Tool Box Thread if you are up for it! I'm interested.

 

[alinc100]

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A nice Lufkin combo set and a beautiful cast iron level by a name I don't recognize. Unfortunately one end is broke clean off at the cross level. Sad face.

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