2023 Garage Sale Thread

[d42jeep]

Fred Knox gets a “You ****” from me for finding TWO folding Crescent screwdrivers at one sale!
-Don

 

[Outlawmws]

no maker markes an any of them

I'm seeing something on that middle one?

 

[Outlawmws]

Fred Knox gets a “You ****” from me for finding TWO folding Crescent screwdrivers at one sale!
-Don

I'll second that!

 

[JohnDeere]

is the plastic handle stinking?

No, no it does not.

 

[Outlawmws]

German Clamp-on Vise, 2" jaws

That one bears a passing resplendence to the Colton Patent Vise

Fred - Can you please post added pics in the vise's thread? I'd like to see how much Colton overlap happened.

And of course the Stanley as well!

 

[LostBoy(IRL)]

I'm seeing something on that middle one?

Old working marks, before I cleaned it I thought the same, but sadly not

 

[Patrickm82]

Two good stops today. A $5 bucket as much as you can fit at the first, then $25 for the break drum and a few others. And the left behinds were two awesome old bikes.from the bucket were estwing leather handle 20oz, Stanley England 61 1/2 plane, Stanley dove tail saw, diamond caulk US grub hoe missing the handle, rigid straight blade, craftsman ball peen, small cobbler hammer, empire bevel square , and buck bros chisel, and a drilling hammer with US stamped in it.

 

[Outlawmws]

Nice bucket scores!

That Harley is awesonme!

 

[bmwrd0]

Very nice bikes. My step brother had a Honda like that back in the eighties, and the Harley reminds me of a Simplex Servi-Cycle.

 

[Pexto]

That hammer is really cool! I love the way the handle goes from octagonal to oval. Is that original, or a replacement?

 

[Marsim]

Went back to the yard sale from yesterday. Purex torch, presto lite torch, no name black handles torch. Wf 83 wrench, Fairmount cleve. wrench. $10 total.

 

[Outlawmws]

That hammer is really cool! I love the way the handle goes from octagonal to oval. Is that original, or a replacement?

Original Proto based on the Green paint. Plvmb/Proto, SO and others all use or used used that pattern handle one time or another.

 

[ctuai]

That looks like a round barrel. Did you mean the cylinder has five chambers? Or there are five grooves in the barrel?
It looks like a Remington-Smoot New Model No4, mfd1877-1888, missing the cylinder pin and front sight. If so, there may be traces of the manufacturer stamp along the top of the barrel.
Does it have a circular inspection plate on the other side? That would make it a Remington Iroquois, a smaller-frame version in .22rf, like you indicated, though I think those have a seven-chamber cylindar and a shorter barrel (the grid in your photo is inches?).

The barrel is circular on the outside but the bore is pentagonal. Yes, it does have an inspection port on the side. The barrel is 3-1/2" long. The cylinder holds 5 rounds and is 1-1/4" long. The handle is wood.

You're a pretty fantastic researcher. You should have been a special collections librarian.

 

[Chrome Vanadium Cody]

My favorite find in a while. 3 piece Blackhawk Wedg-Head wrench set for $9. Blackhawk made some out there stuff. I was bummed I couldn’t find the 11/16” because I use that size a lot but I looked it up online and apparently they didn’t make one.

 

[Outlawmws]

That may be a rimfire, but t looks a lot bigger than .22

 

[ctuai]

That may be a rimfire, but t looks a lot bigger than .22

Almost fits a .22. Pin seems to fall high.

 

[Outlawmws]

Are you rotating on a properly fit cylinder pin, or holing oy in position? it can matter.

FYI I would not trust that to manage modern rim-fire pressures. even longs (vs Long rifle). Age and abuse has done it in... Maybe BB caps...

 

[Squez]

proto bag 10 8 6 adjustable dbe 11/16-5/8 doe 13/16-7/8 3/8-5/16 combos 11/16x2 7 sockets 3 hex sockets tape measure 1/2 to 3/4 adapter 5/16 combo and a ignition wrench 30.00
Snap on snap ring pliers 15.00 each.. picked up the bag with 2 that said 30 each the. He told me 15 each if I get both.. just looked in the bag and took them.. i thought they were duckbills.. the 3rd pair I new were snap rings.. o well still not a bad deal. 45.00
Added a plumb 11/16 2 small Bonney a Billings a new Britian 2 herbrands a p$c 2 sk a industro a barclo a Mac and a cut off wrench. 2 sk sockets another proto ingnition 2 hex sockets. #2 Snapon screwdriver Free after buying the previous 2 lots
Next stop proto 11/16x 3 a 7/16 plyers and chisel 1.00 each
Valco spit screwdriver 1.00
Ridgid oscillating tool 10.00

 

[JohnDeere]

I want that tape measure !

proto bag 10 8 6 adjustable dbe 11/16-5/8 doe 13/16-7/8 3/8-5/16 combos 11/16x2 7 sockets 3 hex sockets tape measure 1/2 to 3/4 adapter 5/16 combo and a ignition wrench 30.00
Snap on snap ring pliers 15.00 each.. picked up the bag with 2 that said 30 each the. He told me 15 each if I get both.. just looked in the bag and took them.. i thought they were duckbills.. the 3rd pair I new were snap rings.. o well still not a bad deal. 45.00
Added a plumb 11/16 2 small Bonney a Billings a new Britian 2 herbrands a p$c 2 sk a industro a barclo a Mac and a cut off wrench. 2 sk sockets another proto ingnition 2 hex sockets. #2 Snapon screwdriver Free after buying the previous 2 lots
Next stop proto 11/16x 3 a 7/16 plyers and chisel 1.00 each
Valco spit screwdriver 1.00
Ridgid oscillating tool 10.00

 

[mikeinri]

Two good stops today. A $5 bucket as much as you can fit at the first, then $25 for the break drum and a few others. And the left behinds were two awesome old bikes.from the bucket were estwing leather handle 20oz, Stanley England 61 1/2 plane, Stanley dove tail saw, diamond caulk US grub hoe missing the handle, rigid straight blade, craftsman ball peen, small cobbler hammer, empire bevel square , and buck bros chisel, and a drilling hammer with US stamped in it.

You have an insane amount of self-control to have walked out of there with that $5 bucket so empty!!!

Mike

 

[SuburbGuy]

Went to the second day of a 2 day estate sale, the seller said there were no tools. Went to the basement where there was a large workspace where 2 buyers were discussing the deceased had some kind of shop business down there. It was apparent they either sold the tools privately or relatives took everything before the estate sale. I went over to a shelf where I picked up the aerosol cans and antifreeze (all full and unused) along with one pack of HF wire brushes. $3 total.

 

[SuburbGuy]

Earlier in the week picked up off the curb this olive drab square gallon can marked " Lily White Stainless Oil B-8964", mostly full of a very light viscosity oil. The Internet says this grade of oil is used on sewing machines which may come in contact with material/clothing. Maybe this oil had another specific use in the military? I tried googling that B number but nothing relevant came up.

 

[pfaustus]

Saturday morning was spent at a local library's $5 per bag book sale. Lots of books. No tools. One book was an 50s machinists textbook. Another was on DIY casting. A third was a history book on the industrial revolution. It looked liked an academic press, not a general interest book.

 

[BillMoney]

Lot 1
Xcelite 1/4 Drive Set
Craftsman Y Circle 6 Inch Adjustable
Klein #2
M Klein & Sons slotted
Walden Worcester Offset DBE
SK 1/4 Combo
Herbrand, Par-X, & Kraeuter Sockets

Lot 2 (Couldn't upload this pic last week)
Left
junk companion/fuller/gedore india
c-man 1/4 screwdriver
sears adjustable
c-man =V= doe's
Ace Pro Gearwrench Ratcheting combos
Plomb Pebble Combo
C-man ext & sockets

Right
C-man VΛ Combo Set
c-man allens
c-man combos V/VV/VΛ
C-Man =V= Breaker Bar Set
C-Man =V= & -V- 1/2 & 3/8 Ratchets

 

[WisJim]

Saturday morning was spent at a local library's $5 per bag book sale. Lots of books. No tools. One book was an 50s machinists textbook. Another was on DIY casting. A third was a history book on the industrial revolution. It looked liked an academic press, not a general interest book.

Can you post more in the book thread? Those sound like the kind of books that I would bring home.

 

[Shiftless]

Thanks again to d42Jeep who alerted me to an estate sale only a mile from my house. He bagged some great stuff and I brought home a Morgan woodworker’s vise. After half an hour of clean up work, it looks like this. It’s still in original paint. After scrubbing it clean, I applied a thin coat of boiled linseed oil. The screw and nut got a coating of fluid film.

 

[d42jeep]

Wow, that looks totally better than when I saw it. What a transformation. I know what you paid for it. You **** big time!
-Don

 

[Shiftless]

Thanks Don!
You did well with that Wards tool box too.

 

[pfaustus]

Can you post more in the book thread? Those sound like the kind of books that I would bring home.

I didn't know there was one. I'll look for it.

 

[brockmub]

For a couple of bucks I picked up this 1973 promotional oil can with a puzzle inside. The puzzle has Hawaii on one side and Alaska on the other. Even though it's missing two pieces, I still think it's kinda cool. The backside of the oil can has finished pictures of both sides of the puzzle.

 

[Old Radar]

Saturday, I accompanied my neighbor to the workshop of his wife's friend’s cousin’s father. So I think that puts me five degrees removed from the previous owner of these tools. The family members of second and third degree had already descended on the place and removed the bulk of items not nailed down, but we spent the better part of three hours going through what remained. All shown here fit in a 5-gallon bucket and cost $50–except for the Williams tool roll, Thorsen rat and the S-K rat with three sockets. I picked those up at a second stop for $13.

I’ll have to wait to clean the dirt and minor surface rust off the lot because it’s just too cumbersome to do with my right hand in a cast. It’s hard enough just typing this out!



Highlights:


Precision group: Starrett depth gage and thread gage; two each 6” rules and pocket calipers; Precision Gage & Tool Co. Center Finder in wooden box; Van Keuren 2 x 0.5” reference gage; Lufkin Radius Gage Set 77A (most still in protective wrap three Mitutoyo micrometers;


Wrenches: L to R, Pennens, Proto, Blackhawk, Williams & Fairmont, can’t remember who makes the stylish wrench below the CM Al Oxide grinding wheel, little P&C, Armstrong Flare Nut, Snap-on group including a Blue Points and an RS-4-L Speed Ratchet, Oxequip aluminum,
Craftsman group includes a Wiggler set and 70th anniversary pocket screwdriver key fob;
Jacobs right angle chuck. The guy had a box of dozens of chuck keys–do you think I picked one up??

G. I. Mix draw knife, 13 inch blade;

Blow gun group, including two unbranded art deco-ish examples and an old brass Schrader;

Whitney Punch No. 5 Jr. (pre-Jensen or Roper);





The North Brothers Yankee No. 251A ratcheting tap wrench failed to make the group photos. The PO was said to have worked for a couple of decades at the San Antonio Air Depot (SAAD). Not to disparage the departed, but the tap wrench bears suspicious grind marks that may have indicated previous gov’t ownership. The Precision Gage center finder has an ID tag taped to the outside of the box and a couple of hand receipts from 1988-89.

 

[CoogarXR]

Picked up some tools at a sale today. Mostly Craftsman, but there's a couple Vaco, Xcelite, and Proto in there. Some plug-boot pliers too. Whole pile was $4. I got a Cheap Trick "Heaven Tonight" LP too, but I forgot to take a pic of it.

 

[S-K Tool Fanatic!]

Saturday, I accompanied my neighbor to the workshop of his wife's friend’s cousin’s father. So I think that puts me five degrees removed from the previous owner of these tools. The family members of second and third degree had already descended on the place and removed the bulk of items not nailed down, but we spent the better part of three hours going through what remained. All shown here fit in a 5-gallon bucket and cost $50–except for the Williams tool roll, Thorsen rat and the S-K rat with three sockets. I picked those up at a second stop for $13.

I’ll have to wait to clean the dirt and minor surface rust off the lot because it’s just too cumbersome to do with my right hand in a cast. It’s hard enough just typing this out!



Highlights:


Precision group: Starrett depth gage and thread gage; two each 6” rules and pocket calipers; Precision Gage & Tool Co. Center Finder in wooden box; Van Keuren 2 x 0.5” reference gage; Lufkin Radius Gage Set 77A (most still in protective wrap three Mitutoyo micrometers;


Wrenches: L to R, Pennens, Proto, Blackhawk, Williams & Fairmont, can’t remember who makes the stylish wrench below the CM Al Oxide grinding wheel, little P&C, Armstrong Flare Nut, Snap-on group including a Blue Points and an RS-4-L Speed Ratchet, Oxequip aluminum,
Craftsman group includes a Wiggler set and 70th anniversary pocket screwdriver key fob;
Jacobs right angle chuck. The guy had a box of dozens of chuck keys–do you think I picked one up??

G. I. Mix draw knife, 13 inch blade;

Blow gun group, including two unbranded art deco-ish examples and an old brass Schrader;

Whitney Punch No. 5 Jr. (pre-Jensen or Roper);





The North Brothers Yankee No. 251A ratcheting tap wrench failed to make the group photos. The PO was said to have worked for a couple of decades at the San Antonio Air Depot (SAAD). Not to disparage the departed, but the tap wrench bears suspicious grind marks that may have indicated previous gov’t ownership. The Precision Gage center finder has an ID tag taped to the outside of the box and a couple of hand receipts from 1988-89.

Picked up some tools at a sale today. Mostly Craftsman, but there's a couple Vaco, Xcelite, and Proto in there. Some plug-boot pliers too. Whole pile was $4. I got a Cheap Trick "Heaven Tonight" LP too, but I forgot to take a pic of it.

You both **** big time!

 

[Patrickm82]

I second that

 

[mikeinri]

Saturday, I accompanied my neighbor to the workshop of his wife's friend’s cousin’s father. So I think that puts me five degrees removed from the previous owner of these tools.

I believe it does. Did you find any pictures of the guy with Kevin Bacon?

Mike

 

[Outlawmws]

You both **** big time!

Ditto!

 

[d42jeep]

Saturday, I accompanied my neighbor to the workshop of his wife's friend’s cousin’s father. So I think that puts me five degrees removed from the previous owner of these tools. The family members of second and third degree had already descended on the place and removed the bulk of items not nailed down, but we spent the better part of three hours going through what remained. All shown here fit in a 5-gallon bucket and cost $50–except for the Williams tool roll, Thorsen rat and the S-K rat with three sockets. I picked those up at a second stop for $13.

I’ll have to wait to clean the dirt and minor surface rust off the lot because it’s just too cumbersome to do with my right hand in a cast. It’s hard enough just typing this out!



Highlights:


Precision group: Starrett depth gage and thread gage; two each 6” rules and pocket calipers; Precision Gage & Tool Co. Center Finder in wooden box; Van Keuren 2 x 0.5” reference gage; Lufkin Radius Gage Set 77A (most still in protective wrap three Mitutoyo micrometers;


Wrenches: L to R, Pennens, Proto, Blackhawk, Williams & Fairmont, can’t remember who makes the stylish wrench below the CM Al Oxide grinding wheel, little P&C, Armstrong Flare Nut, Snap-on group including a Blue Points and an RS-4-L Speed Ratchet, Oxequip aluminum,
Craftsman group includes a Wiggler set and 70th anniversary pocket screwdriver key fob;
Jacobs right angle chuck. The guy had a box of dozens of chuck keys–do you think I picked one up??

G. I. Mix draw knife, 13 inch blade;

Blow gun group, including two unbranded art deco-ish examples and an old brass Schrader;

Whitney Punch No. 5 Jr. (pre-Jensen or Roper);





The North Brothers Yankee No. 251A ratcheting tap wrench failed to make the group photos. The PO was said to have worked for a couple of decades at the San Antonio Air Depot (SAAD). Not to disparage the departed, but the tap wrench bears suspicious grind marks that may have indicated previous gov’t ownership. The Precision Gage center finder has an ID tag taped to the outside of the box and a couple of hand receipts from 1988-89.

The mystery DOE is unmarked Barcalo.
-Don

 

[3baygarage]

Nice find on that Snap-On speed ratchet Old Radar!

 

[3baygarage]

A couple stops this week. First, some lunch break finds from the Habitat store.

-Williams plastic knob speeder. My second this year, and the third in this thread I believe.
-Plomb NAF socket
- 4 “KING ****” tubular sockets
-Terry’s England screwdriver
-Simanco screwdriver
-Snap-On mini pick

 

[3baygarage]

Also attended the monthly automotive swap meet. Prices were good and I was pleased with my haul.

- Snap-On finds. KRA-40 metal box, Nut splitter, Limited Edition screwdriver, (Blue-Point) valve key tool, dust cap pliers, distributor wrench.

-Zim valve adjuster, Craftsman hand impact driver, Martin hammer, Action ratchet, Cornwell socket, New Britain lock ring pliers, Walker cobbler pliers, Nemef Sloten flat blade key?, green tiny made in Germany adjustable wrench, Williams 3/8” socket set.