Garage Sale Find

[Rickster]

I like to hit the garage sales in the neighborhood at lunchtime. Saw an add for one today, no address, just a street name and the come on of "many tools". I found the street on mapquest and headed over. Turns out the guys dad was a SnapOn tool man. Some guy first thing in the morning bought a lot of stuff. When I got there I picked out all this for $50. I originally thought the tap & die set was SnapOn but it's labelled Ace in handwriting and says USA.

I had to hit the cash machine after work because I was broke and headed over there on my way home. Picked up the rest of this for $45. The wrench sets are a metric Matco set and US std mixture of Mac, matco & SK. The 3/8 air gun is a BluePoint. Not in the pic is a SnapOn coffee cup and three SnapOn belt buckles. All & all, a VERY good day!

 

[wythors]

I hate you.



I'd be listing the whole batch on eBay this weekend and turning that $95 into about $500.

 

[eschoendorff]

You definitely ****!

 

[milly]

Great finds. I never get that lucky.

 

[srosa707]

Hell yeah! Im gonna start goin to garage sales as soon as i get back to the states!

 

[Canadian Charlie]

You scored big time, congrats on the new tools

 

[jerryW]

Looks like my weekend finds at the local Park&Swap!

Went to a different one last sunday. Found a bunch of stuff for less than $50.

Including a Plomb, Wards Master and an early Husky, all 1/2" dr ratchets. A 10" B&C cresent style wrench. A pair of Proto compound pliers. A bunch of wrenches.


jerry

 

[l_bilyk]

What a deal!

PS: U ****

 

[Rickster]

My wife sent me to the market for BBQ supplies and the market just happened to be near that guys garage sale and I wound up there again. I spent $50 for some Snapon deep 3/8" drive metric impact and chrome sockets, a set of 1/2" drive metric sockets, three metric and three std off-set open end wrenches, snap ring pliers, some oddball sockets & wrenches, a brand new Blue Point 6" orbital sander and a Snapon Babe wall clock.

 

[vjquan]

You sure like rubbing it in.

 

[Rickster]

Trust me.. no rubbing going on here. Most of my tools are garge sale finds I had to wire wheel the rust off of. I hit the mother load on this find and just to share.

 

[Darren M.]

Gotta add to this myself. Got this one a couple of weeks ago for $15! Not the most powerful thing in the world but it works rather well.

 

[Wile1Coyote]

YOU ****! Great idea though. I'm going to try that. Do you find the ads in the daily paper for the most part?

 

[Rickster]

Everything is on-line, newspapers and extate sale guys web sites. Here are a few of the best ones I use for Detroit area.

http://www.estatesales.net/default.aspx?adv=O

http://www.mistuffhunt.com/cgi-bin/categories.pl?searchfor=Merchandise

http://classifieds.heritagenews.com/

http://classifieds.hometownlife.com...late=/standard/Front.oft&publication=observer

http://www.jamiesattic.net/upcoming.html

 

[Wile1Coyote]

Ok Rick you **** a little less now.

Thanks for posting those links that is going to be my first site I hit every day. I LOVE buying good quality used stuff at a fraction of wholesale.

 

[Bradley Miller]

Gotta add to this myself. Got this one a couple of weeks ago for $15! Not the most powerful thing in the world but it works rather well.

At $15 you got overcharged by $14. Honestly, I have one that looks almost identical that I paid $40 new and it's a huge pain. (Cheap tools, ugh!) The plastic depth gauge on the side broke. The pulley loosens up over time and requires work. The thing is never tall enough, I run into problems with my vice and larger drill bits. The side play adjustment (?? name) bolt broke also, so I ended up putting a 3/8 bolt/nut in the side to fix it. The thing also has a lot of play in it. The only redeeming quality is it beats drilling holes with a hand drill. Someday I'll get a better floor model or maybe something like a Shop Smith.

 

[Darren M.]

For the record I sold it for $45.