2022 Garage Sale Thread

[Old Radar]

What is the spike used for?

Spiking Marlins of course! It's used when working with rope to open up the strands for splicing creating specialized end knots. It could also be a handy thing to have when fighting off pirates.

Blohm & Voss ... also built aircraft for the Wermacht.

Close, but no cigar. The Wehrmacht liked to keep their feet on the ground. The Luftwaffe flew airplanes.

As you may be able to discern from my replies, there's not much happening on the tool front in S.A. this week.

 

[3baygarage]

Had a fun day today. Took a ride with Cbacres to Flywheelers . With the current weather conditions there weren’t even close to the normal amount of vendors, and barely any customers. The vendors who were set up were mostly partially set up, with tables tarped, due to the clouds and on/off sprinkle.

We covered the grounds easily on his buggy, my first time not on foot. I managed to leave there with a nice haul, so I’m happy. Always plenty of tools and odd items to look through.

First find was an early Mac brake spoon. Other finds include a Craftsman 15mm Cross Force, Snap-On stubby magnetic bit driver that I jumped on for just $2, a Heller 18” Masterench I had to have due to it being massive, a cast handle, an elusive Plomb pebble 5/16” combo wrench.

Some decent old sockets from Blackhawk, Snap-On, Armstrong, Craftsman.

Husky No 1. hex drive ratchet with a socket. Globemaster (Spain) Frankenstein ratchet, Bonney 1/2” fixed breaker bar.
Mustang Fors ratchet kindly gifted to me by Cbacres from his home stash.

The Facom tubular style metric wrench set (partial) was something I looked at last year. Thought they were cool and almost bought them then. The price was better this time around some they came home with me. Good luck finding the missing ones, right?

Lastly a Hinsdale box set that I was quite excited to see. The ratchet had been replaced with a nice Herbrand, and one socket is an S-K. Over all though, a really nice, tough to find set. The pieces are in very nice condition. The breaker bar has a female drive in the end as well.

I’m glad we went, it’s the flea market event thats anticipated all year here. Hanging out chatting, even better.

 

[Provincial]

Old Radar answered the question about the marlinspike, but they are also useful for lining up holes to put bolts in. You do not hammer on a marlinspike, except perhaps using a soft-faced hammer to help work it in between strands of steel wire rope. Notice that the tip is flat so it can be worked into the seam between two strands of wire rope.

People have been fired for using a marlinspike as a punch. No kidding. They were used regularly in cable logging operations not too long ago.

 

[mritchie77]

Hit up a small local estate sale here. For living next to a retirement community, most of these folks are uber rich and don't seem to care much in the way of tools. I was able to get everything below for $31.

1 Cee Tee Co. slip joint pliers
1 Challenger 1069 1/4" driver
1 Stanley 233H, missing bits and a cap unfortunatly
1 Blackhawk 11m combo
1 Stanley 63-312 Handyman stubby slotted tip
1 Stanley Workmaster 65-302 phillips #2 tip
1 Stanley Workmaster 67-268 slotted tip
1 Craftsman 67184 drill bit set (with the original insert)
2 Craftsman V series 43788 RHFT 3/8 ratchets
1 Craftsman V series 44363 10" 3/8 hinge handle

Gonna sell most of those on eBay except for the hinge handle and drill bits. I think I'll triple my money.

 

[alinc100]

Hit one sale on the way home last night .A 7 piece set of Walden Worcester SpinTites,brad pusher,Craftsman Vanadium wrench,Plumb DOE,and Snap On DBE,and the homemade oak wall mount.

 

[cmccuist1]

I went to a really fun yard sale in the little town of Churchill, TX. Came away with a kit of nice finds.

3 Ridgid 36” pipe wrenches - $10 each
A 3/4” Snap On ratchet - $5
An Atlas steady rest - $5
Starrett rear plunger dial indicator - $10
Starrett snap gage set (rusty) - $3

 

[Arne73]

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[Indexmill]

That rusty Starrett hole gauge set is a tragedy.

 

[Smokeshow69]

I got a care package today in the mail today from ragtopta! We send each other stuff every few months! Lots of Proto la and craftsman in here. And yes, that’s a shamwow . Now I have some tools to clean up! The box weighed 12.7lbs . I am sure a bit of it was that 1” drive Proto la socket

 

[3baygarage]

$5 3/4" Snap-On ratchet gets Cmccuist1 a YOU ****!

 

[3baygarage]

Was somebody making a knife with that Proto LA?

 

[3jakes]

I went to a really fun yard sale in the little town of Churchill, TX. Came away with a kit of nice finds.

3 Ridgid 36” pipe wrenches - $10 each
A 3/4” Snap On ratchet - $5
An Atlas steady rest - $5
Starrett rear plunger dial indicator - $10
Starrett snap gage set (rusty) - $3

Absolute **** on that haul.
5 dollar 3/4 ratchet is over the top!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

a Heller 18” Masterench I had to have due to it being massive,

...and not at all easy to find. That was the last one I acquired, via trade, to complete a set of them with at least one of every size they made (6", 8", 10", 14" and 18").

Lastly a Hinsdale box set that I was quite excited to see. The ratchet had been replaced with a nice Herbrand, and one socket is an S-K. Over all though, a really nice, tough to find set. The pieces are in very nice condition. The breaker bar has a female drive in the end as well.

I'm jealous of that box! I have that same exact set, with slightly older generation tools (with the flat rectangular knurled handles), in the same box, but no set number embossed on the lid, only the Hinsdale logo. See post #10 in the Hinsdale thread for the set, post #36 for a catalog excerpt.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I had a very good day (if only by my own standards) at the flea market this morning (Lugz 2022_50).



- No clue what that odd and very large combination open end wrench and pin spanner is.

- The antique quick clamp is a No. 2 Colton Patent (1881!) that will now make the No. 1 and No. 4 that I already have an official "collection". I will be gleefully glamming it up about that on my Lugzsonian thread later.

- The other quick clamp is a GRAND. I have a few WWII GRAND Quikcet Vises and I wouldn't be surprised if this was wartime as well. Copper or copper-plated screw, lever, quick release trigger and gib seat are either spark reducing or for working with softer materials (brass, aluminum, etc).

- The book, original 1st Edition, published in 1942, might be one of my favorite finds of the year - and it's cool that it showed up on Veteran's Day! I usually don't like to dally on "paper" tables, because it usually takes forever going through books, magazines, etc, and I always worry about what I am missing on some other table, but I went back and dug in when I was done my rounds, and I am glad I did! "Get Tough" is legendary hand-to-hand instruction, derived from many traditions by a British officer, who had been the Assistant Police Commissioner in Shanghai.

- The glasses are awesome. There are no screws! Everything is pinned and wired, including the very soft nose piece, right through the optical glass, and the temples are very flexible soft plastic. I found it while digging through a box of all kinds of strange surgical tools, and I have no doubt they are surgeons' specs. Just by pure coincidence, they are close to the 3.25 rating reading glasses I wear.

- Lastly, and speaking of vision, if you guys lean back from your screens and squint a little, I am sure you will recognize the former president of the US depicted in the frame without cheating and reading the inscription. I forget what they call this. Not Cubist, although I am tempted to say 60's computer cubist portraiture. Not dot matrix, either. But you get the idea. It's just squares of various crosshatching. But the framing is quite old. I wish it didn't have the name on it. I may try to reframe it to hide that. It's corny, but cool. That subject, this type of work, and framed.

 

[cmccuist1]

$5 3/4" Snap-On ratchet gets Cmccuist1 a YOU ****!

It pays to be the first one there. I got a bucket of 3/4" impact sockets as well. Some Proto, some Craftsman, one Snap On.

 

[Provincial]

Lugz, copper plate on clamps is also used to keep welding spatter from sticking. GRAND was quite active in making tooling for WWII production.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Yessir!!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I did not leave the inspiration found in Pic 1 behind, but I did leave behind the Holgate pull toys (some of you may remember me finding a jeep earlier this year) in Pic 2 (not interested enough) and the 1923 Barney Google comic, which I loved reading on Sundays and dearly wanted, if only to crack wise about the name predating the Silicon Valley Search Borg by nearly a century, in Pic 3 (too expensive).

 

[humber2]

The pin wrench is to assemble the stack of plates in a cream separator.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

The pin wrench is to assemble the stack of plates in a cream separator.

Thanks for the reminder! Some things just don't stick with me. Here is one I found back in 2019, which I promptly sent, by almost immediate request, to some GJ'er out in Indiana as I recall who actually had a Sharples Cream Separator and it was missing this wrench, which had hooks to mount it on the frame.

The one I just found is not branded, unfortunately.

 

[humber2]

If you ever buy a separator it is essential to have the tool and the bench mounted plate to hold the stack.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Needless to say, he was happy! And I was happy to re-unite it.

 

[humber2]

Lister from England and Alfa-Laval from Sweden were the two common makes found here in every milkng shed before the road tankers were introduced in the 1950's.

Ship engine rooms have one for reclaiming lubricating oil.

 

[duddly]

Whaaaaaaaat? Very reasonable prices.

 

[alinc100]

Three stops today ,3rd was a bust but did good on the first 2 . Audels Automobile Handbook, Craftsman Hand drill (with fluted bits similar to push drill bits ,but a smooth shank in the handle), Craftsman DBE's ,2 Penens 5/8" combos,Blackhawk & Indestro DBEs, Bonney deepwell socket,Stanley offset screwdriver and multi bit screwdriver,Ace square drive screwdriver,NOS Craftsman 1/4" deep socket set, S-K swivel socket ,The No-go-Go guages/feeler gauges and a pair of 24" Bessey clamps.

 

[Old Radar]

Rule #3, duddly:

3. Give us the backstory. Posting photos alone is as worthless as describing a great score alone, without photos.

Spill it!

 

[duddly]

Rule #3, duddly:

Spill it!

Ha! I had to post but was/am still in transit. Me and Mrs Duddly are headed to the Lancaster area and I have long wanted to stop at Bootleg antiques in Columbia PA to see that booth. The booth was great, the shop is great, the building and town are great. His booth was not all woodworking stuff. Plenty of mechanics and machinist stuff. I only bought a large alligator wrench but I enjoyed it. Off now to the Green Dragon Market for some amazing meats and cheeses!

 

[Gwizjames]

$16.50 for the lot. (6) Proto and (1) Craftsman =v= sockets. Amber driver is Proto. Klein sidecutters.
Please tell me what the red Buck Brothers “screw driver” is called and used for.

 

[Lesserstore]

$16.50 for the lot. (6) Proto and (1) Craftsman =v= sockets. Amber driver is Proto. Klein sidecutters.
Please tell me what the red Buck Brothers “screw driver” is called and used for.

It's called a screw starter and it drills and threads a short hole in wood to help start a screw.

 

[bmwrd0]

It is a gimlet, used to start holes in wood for a screw to go in.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Whaaaaaaaat? Very reasonable prices.

Bootleg antiques in Columbia PA

I was going to guess Havre de Grace, but I used to live there, believe it or not, Mondays through Fridays, for a year, and I couldn't place that building. I'll have to put Bootleg on my list of just-in-case-I'm-ever-passing-through places. Looks cool.

 

[chenry318]

Whaaaaaaaat? Very reasonable prices.

I've been there as well, It's a lot to take in. I don't think I bought anything there but did find some deals at the antique store just up at the top of the street.

 

[chenry318]

Here’s my buys from an auction the other day. Total was about $55 with auction fees.
Black and decker 7” angle grinder, Milwaukee deep cut band saw, dewalt 4.5” angle grinder.

 

[ForrestT]

Whaaaaaaaat? Very reasonable prices.

Where is this? Looks cool.

 

[chenry318]

A local tool guy is moving his business across the street from my work. It makes for a great lunchtime activity but isn’t so great for my tool budget. Been picking up quite a few sockets and wrenches to finish out some sets over the last few weeks. Been eyeing up this hammer drill and finally picked it out. $50


Also grabbed this No 3202 ratchet. $5

Then as I was about to leave he asked if I was interested in any stubby craftsman wrenches that he had just picked up that morning and hadn’t unloaded from his van yet. Turned out to be both metric and standard USA craftsman stubbies. He charged me $5 more than he paid so $55 for the lot.

If anyone has a 16 mm or any of the smaller sizes they want to let go of let me know.

 

[chenry318]

Where is this? Looks cool.

It’s called Bootleg Antiques in Columbia Pennsylvania. Right near the Susquehanna river.

 

[Blackmarket]

I went to a really fun yard sale in the little town of Churchill, TX. Came away with a kit of nice finds.

3 Ridgid 36” pipe wrenches - $10 each
A 3/4” Snap On ratchet - $5
An Atlas steady rest - $5
Starrett rear plunger dial indicator - $10
Starrett snap gage set (rusty) - $3

That's definitley a you ****! on the 3/4" Snap On!

 

[Outlawmws]

on the 3/4" SO ratchet

 

[tombell572]

We're back in Portland and I made my first tag sale in several months. This was the first day of a three-day sale of a closed auto repair shop opened in 1944 and operated until 2020 when the owner's son retired. It appeared that neither owner got rid of anything--the shop, outbuildings and a storage trailer were filled with auto repair equipment, parts, and a broad range of non-automobile items. In spite of it all, I came home with only two items: a Craftsman ball-end Allen wrench set and a seemingly unused Starrett #182 protractor in its box with both the pointed and ball-end pivots, $3.00 and $5.00 respectively. A near miss was beautiful and very unusual machine work lamp, grabbed by a guy faster than I. Of note was a nice 10'" Logan lathe, hidden in a back room. Obviously not used in years and covered in oily dirt and chips (nature's preservative), it had very little wear and tooling that included two chucks, face plate, dog driver, two Jacobs drill chucks, steady and follower rests and probably more, priced at $650. I have two lathes so was not interested but it would make a great complete lathe package for someone at what I think is a fair price.

Tom B.

 

[LesserSon]

Looks cool.

It is. My main complaint is I didn’t find it until after my son moved from nearby Lancaster. I rarely find cause to range that direction these days.