2023 Garage Sale Thread

[mikeinri]

I asked about them...it is no secret I am a proud freemason.

I did see that, was just trying to get a laugh.

Mike

 

[mikeinri]

@chenry318: You most definitely **** for the Vinmars!

As for your last post: Free is my favorite price, and it's especially satisfying to get stuff from work!

Mike

 

[bmwrd0]

I agree that NJ is not part of New England, and neither is PA, though there was a portion of PA claimed by Connecticut, leading to the Yankee-Pennamite War.

NJ is definitely a Mid-Atlantic state, while Penn is part of the rust belt, Pennsytucky notwithstanding.

 

[NJ Marty]

I got a nice small haul over the weekend. I was shocked to see the Craftsman Spinner when I opened a tool box under the work bench.
Also 8 shells left in the tattered box and a cool can of spray paint. I was in for $50 but knew the spinner was a descent one. The Tormek
I never heard of and took a chance as they are NOS and will see what grinder these parts are for.

 

[Smokeshow69]

I got a nice small haul over the weekend. I was shocked to see the Craftsman Spinner when I opened a tool box under the work bench.
Also 8 shells left in the tattered box and a cool can of spray paint. I was in for $50 but knew the spinner was a descent one. The Tormek
I never heard of and took a chance as they are NOS and will see what grinder these parts are for.

Nj Marty, who may or may not consider himself east coast/mid coast per the pending discussion gets a definite “You ****” for paying $50 for that haul. Those spinner types go for at least double what you paid on the flea bay. Nice work!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Lugz - the St Clair do-dad is indeed a household item: a milk cap lifter. I have one somewhere. I do not recall using one, even in childhood, which makes me think it may precede the waxed cardboard daisy lid with the heavier cardboard disc centers. Or maybe that is what it’s for and we were just too uncivilized to use one.

Thanks for the lead! I haven't researched it yet. Busy with other things.

Here are some better pics with some of my buttonhooks of the same ilk.

There was a local dairy farm 1/8mile from my childhood home, and we got milk in returnable glass half-gallons there.

Same. Ours - called Hahn's, was a little farther away. Our bottles were delivered to our front porch, like the big tins of pretzels, chips, and A-Treat. No tool required for the tops.

St Clair (Schuylkill County) is in the anthracite coal region of PA

I've been through it several times. Had a girlfriend in Shamokin. (Remember, I was born and raised in Carbon County.)

I agree that NJ is not part of New England, and neither is PA,

There really isn't any debate about it, but I didn't mean for my post to 'call out' OR about his designation. I was only kidding. In my experience, it's actually fairly common for many people from other parts of the country to use "New England" as a synonym for "Northeast", an even more unwieldy term that encompasses both New England and the Mid-Atlantic States. The concept of regions is itself untidy. Technically, New York and Pennsylvania are also Great Lakes states, for example, by dint of their sheer size and westward shorelines, and, while the Mid-Atlantic States have a lot in common, that old Mason-Dixon Line still cuts a bit of separation through our collective history and psyche. On the other hand, Cape May, NJ is further south than Maysville, Kentucky.

 

[mikeinri]

@NJ Marty: You **** for that haul, at the very least for the Craftsman tools, especially the spinner. Can't imagine the rest of those boxes have no value.

Mike

 

[mikeinri]

As for NJ / NE, they clearly don't want to be associated with us, and we don't want them either...

Mike

 

[LesserSon]

I guess the pick-end of this combo must have a patent predating 1912, but a quick search did not turn it up. Note the Newark origin of this one!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Note the Newark origin of this one!

Maybe it's just me, my computer, browser etc, LS, but all I am seeing is the little doc symbol thingie and the filename (USD43278.pdf).

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I was able to use the filename to find it. Thanks. I guess with this particular design you poke the pick part through the cardboard on a slight angle and, using the wings as leverage against the cap, pry it up. After pouring through dozens of turn of the century ads in dairy trade mags for better milk cap openers, milk caps, milk caps with openers built in, etc, I am suddenly hankering for a bowl of cereal.

 

[mikeinri]

...I am suddenly hankering for a bowl of cereal.

That could start the mother of all thread tangents...

Mike

 

[Provincial]

Thread drifting down the bowl?

 

[Provincial]

Logic says that a tool with advertising from a dairy would have something to do with dairy products, household chores, or raising young children. That could include dairy products that are not liquid.

The fact that this particular design is uncommon indicates that the use for which it was designed did not continue into the 20th Century very far. Perhaps a change in packaging?

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Oh, sorry, Jock, it's definitely a milk bottle cap opener. I was just trying to figure out how it worked and why it was shaped like that. Most of the ads for milk cap openers from the late 1890s as late as 1920's extolling the virtues of their design are talking about a cardboard cap and the conclusion is that almost anything sharp (fork, knife, even a thumb with enough exertion) could be used to puncture and lift it, albeit messily. I even found one in a Pop Sci where a guy showed how to make one yourself, by taking a fork, removing four of the five tines, and leaving the last one a little short, to make a combo milk cap and beer bottle opener. I just didn't want to spam the thread with stuff about an antique household tool. Some of the stuff I like is well outside center gravity for the thread, and this is even well outside that! Maybe I will post more on the Lugzsonian thread. Apparently, patented milk bottle caps, better caps, and better cap openers was a cottage industry unto itself!

 

[mikeinri]

Hey, you acquired it at a sale, it's a tool, so I'm not seeing drift.

The tangent I was referring to was a debate over Fruity Pebbles vs. Raisin Bran...

Mike

 

[alinc100]

Hey, you acquired it at a sale, it's a tool, so I'm not seeing drift.

The tangent I was referring to was a debate over Fruity Pebbles vs. Raisin Bran...

Mike

No way there is a debate on Raisin Bran vs Fruity Pebbles.... Fruity Pebbles wins every time

 

[Bobcat753]

Just wanted to let everyone know that baby Wyatt and mom are home safe from the hospital! As for picking not much to report on here but I did order something brand new which I started a thread in free parking for.

 

[Smokeshow69]

Just wanted to let everyone know that baby Wyatt and mom are home safe from the hospital! As for picking not much to report on here but I did order something brand new which I started a thread in free parking for.

Congratulations to bobcat and baby bobcat!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Congratulations to bobcat and baby bobcat!

 

[Old Radar]

Wow. The thread seems to have gotten away from me! I need to catch up!

By the way, we interrupt your regular broadcast with a quick CONTEST!

First one who can name the Beatles song that popped into my head when I saw these LEAVE-BEHINDS from Sunday wins, um, er, ...my everlasting admiration.

Contest addendum: Without looking it up, (and if you already have, shut up) What does BOAC stand for and what happened to them?

Grabbed a few items being thrown out at work today.
Ideal electrical fish tape
Milwaukee drywall screw gun
Dewalt 1/2” drill with a broken forward/reverse lever
Partial spool of weld wire I plan to use to hang parts when painting
2 4’ pressure treated 4x4’s I need for a project.


Lastly, a 30” magnetic roller sweep.

I'd love to live near a place that threw out as much good stuff as your employer! I'd be checking their dumpster every day! You **** on multiple planes!

I got a nice small haul over the weekend. I was shocked to see the Craftsman Spinner when I opened a tool box under the work bench.

Another You **** for Marty for all the free stuff he got with his CM Spinner!

I agree that NJ is not part of New England,

Sheesh! Touchy. Easy to understand how you "Mid Atlantic" boys came up with the Gadsden Flag!

Just wanted to let everyone know that baby Wyatt and mom are home safe from the hospital! As for picking not much to report on here but I did order something brand new which I started a thread in free parking for.

Congratulations to Mrs. Bobcat on the safe delivery--and for the minor part you played in the enterprise!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

--and for the minor part you played in the enterprise!

Snerk. I've been waiting for the responses to get more light-hearted, so I can make my joke...

...about babies not needing a milk bottle opener!

 

[gleman]

Bobkitten Wyatt gets the you **** from me!

As a Detroiter I remember the glass being replaced with the waxed cardboard in the seventies from the Twin Pines man. When did they have a paper cap? I thought they were metal.

I also remember the creepy *** clown mascot

 

[wtn1271]

So I missed what was listed as a '1 day only' estate sale on Saturday but made it on Sunday when the company extended the sale for a few hours while they loaded the dumpster and the scrap metal guy filled his truck. Nothing real exciting but I managed to find some useful items and a few curiosities. $22 for all.
Useful stuff - Rubbermaid watering can and blue bin, full can of PB blaster, 1/2 bottle car wash soap, toddler sized Feather brand canoe paddle, Corona pruning saw (rusty but plenty sharp), HD nail apron, wire wheel for drill, 2 large vinyl coated screw hooks. Tool stuff - Stanley rasp, Hyde putty knife and 2 plastic spreaders, Gardner electric conduit bender head (new), metal compass/scribe (USA), Snap On wrenches (1 combo, 2 ignition), 3 Snap On 1/4" drive sockets. Proto starter wrench, Hazet DOE, misc sockets ( Mac, Krauter, P-F (?), Husky-USA), Craftsman wrenches, sockets & crows foot.
Curiosities, at least for me are the P.S & W 240 linesman pliers, (not a brand I have seen before), DOE wrench with screwdriver blade off the end, (marked K-99 and an unrecognizable symbol inside a diamond), Wakefield hex ratchet #24, pick/mattock/trench tool stamped 'US' on the handle and head.

Left behind the Snap On box due to lack of available garage space at home. It was the main reason I bothered going to the sale but it would require more time and effort than I have right now. Priced at $125 down from the $295 it was marked at on day 1. It will most likely be available at their next sale if I change my mind.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

P.S & W 240 linesman pliers, (not a brand I have seen before),

Peck, Stow, and Wilcox (PEXTO)

DOE wrench with screwdriver blade off the end, (marked K-99 and an unrecognizable symbol inside a diamond),

That looks like an H in a diamond Herbrand logo. Very early.

Wakefield hex ratchet #24,

I'd like to see additional photos either here or on the Wakefield thread down on the vintage board. See A-Z Index in the Sticky at the top of that forum.

pix/mattock/trench tool stamped 'US' on the handle and head.

WWII. No serifs on the letters. They were part of many kits, most prominently Corps of Engineers, but they were also on many vehicles in a special rack with a shovel and axe. If you clean it up you may find a logo on the blade. Verona Tool Works, Charles E. Hall, etc.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

When did they have a paper cap? I thought they were metal.

According to several sites, they were cardboard or paperboard as late as the mid-to-late 1950s here in the US, when they were deemed unhygienic.

 

[four.cycle]

^ They were still paper caps in our bottles well into the 1960s. Supreme Dairy. They were out in Fife, as I recall. Came twice a week. My little sister and I would go out and get on the truck and pick out all kinds of goodies - the driver would just put it on the bill - after he came in and drank coffee with the old man at the kitchen table.

@wtn1271 - I will second the request for more photos of the Wakefield unit please.

 

[LesserSon]

No way there is a debate on Raisin Bran vs Fruity Pebbles.... Fruity Pebbles wins every time

Not in my house. I am not sure I have ever tried Pebbles of any sort. Nor Frankenberries nor Boo Berries. I ate a good deal of Froot Loops in the mid 1980s. And Capn Crunch. Mostly Saturday and Sunday morning hangover paliatives, till I could drag myself down to Pizza Hut brunch to rebalance my electrolites.

 

[mikeinri]

@Bobcat753: Another (repeat?) congrats on the new baby!

And, rules / schmules, You Still **** for that free excavator in 2022!!!

Mike

 

[mikeinri]

@LesserSon: Stay away from Fruity Pebbles. They're more addictive than crack (not that I'd know, but it's hard not to eat an entire box in one sitting / not that that's a remotely good idea)!!!

Mike

 

[mikeinri]

I think I remember paper caps on milk bottles into the late 70s / early 80s. Unless they were plastic, but they seemed like paper. I remember that they really didn't seal well.

Mike

 

[wtn1271]

Lugz: Thanks for the quick reply and all the details.

I have picked up a few Pexto hatchet heads in the past but did not know the origins.

The Wakefield has a 'patented July 12 1910' stamped on the backside. It will get the evaporust treatment tomorrow.

I'll post them all in the appropriate vintage threads after clean up.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I think we're all talking about two different things. The caps on our glass milk bottles in the 60s were indeed paper with foil to wrap around the lip. Or mine were foil, anyway. Then metal and foil. No tool required. What I was referring to were bottles with a recessed lid or cap inside. Those were stiff cardboard or paperboard and you could not get them off without a special tool, or a fork or a knife etc, to pry them out. If you visit the Lugzsonian thread I posted more photos and trade mag ads for other kinds of openers, and most of them show the bottles and describe the recessed cardboard cap.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Thanks for the quick reply and all the details.

Happy to help. Nice diverse haul.

 

[mikeinri]

I think we're all talking about two different things. The caps on our glass milk bottles in the 60s were indeed paper with foil to wrap around the lip. Or mine were foil, anyway. Then metal and foil. No tool required. What I was referring to were bottles with a recessed lid or cap inside. Those were stiff cardboard or paperboard and you could not get them off without a special tool, or a fork or a knife etc, to pry them out. If you visit the Lugzsonian thread I posted more photos and trade mag ads for other kinds of openers, and most of them show the bottles and describe the recessed cardboard cap.

Gotcha, thanks. Could have been some foil, I suppose. They were definitely external.

Mike

 

[Private Lugnutz]

That's the key difference. External.

 

[jbermudez75]

Yes growing up in TX Borden milk had paper caps.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Yes growing up in TX Borden milk had paper caps.

How did you seal it back up?

Some of my neighbors had a milk box that they got there milk delivered to, we just got ours at the grocery store In a carton.

 

[jbermudez75]

No idea but I’m the youngest of six so milk didn’t last long in the house. Unless they were tokens for deposit. I remember seeing them as a kid. Something like this

 

[Ole Slewfoot]

Working a remodel at an elder day facility, I remember we got talking to one of the guys and he recounted his first job at a milk delivery.
Not as a driver.
He was still small, so they set him up with a ladel and pitcher of liquid lead. His specialty was to climb in the truck tanks and relead the seams!