Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: dimwittedmoose51 on January 13, 2013, 12:43:37 PM
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Went to an industrial auction nearby and bid on a lot of stuff, but it all got too high for my blood. Srtrings of $30(new) Craftsman sockets were bringing $40-45 and a Bosch hammer drill brought $400. The C-man sockets were less than 5 years old and virtually new, but..... Most of the sale was a Masonry Contractor 's going out of business auction. A dozen Stihl concrete saws, scaffolding, and the trailers and skid loaders to go with it. I walked away with a $5 flat screen monitor for the downstairs computer and headed for the resale shops.
A nearby resale shop that has interesting finds from time to time was the first stop and bought a package of stuff that included the Sioux valve grinder, the C-man Vanadium DOE, and the Fulton Brace screwdriver bit and the small drill bit adapter(no mfg. name on it), and a bunch of other stuff not tool related for $10. St. Vincent De Paul was next and they had the Deleval cream wrench, the 2 Western Auto Screwdrivers(and the Great Neck slot), and the DOE. Spent $3 there. Then to Money and More's new location n downtown Waterloo. Didn't realize they were expanding, but it's more focused on electronics than tools, but I spent $6 there on the Proto 12" adj. the SK combo and roughly half the sockets in the photo. The big score for the day was the $10 V-series swivel joint C-man sockets(yeah, the 3/4" is a replacement, but Oily will just have to find that singleton on his own!!) and the original metal case that's in great shape. Found that at E Z Pawn on my way to the other Money and More Location. Since I was running out of money and time simultaneously, I didn't rifle through their socket stash too hard, but found the Fairmount DOE and the rest of the sockets for $3. The other two resale shops didn't have any tool stuff, but did find a few 50 cent CD's and a better office chair plastic thing to protect the carpet(mildly tool-related since I spend so much time in the chair posting all this drivel....lol).
Getting boxes ready to ship all the last weekend stuff out, so be patient.
DM&FS
Left side- Sioux Valve lapper/grinder
Top to Bottom:
DIN DOE 17x19
Deleval 490 Separator DOE
Craftsman Vanadium DOE 1729
Fairmount 1029 DOE
SK C-20
NASH DOE A and thin Williams DOE
Western Auto Wood Phillips HR 1379
Western Auto Stubby
Great Neck slot
C-Man DBE V-series(wit hth eV way down by the head, not on the raised portion of the wrench)
Right Side_
Box of V-series(well almost all of them) Craftsman swivel SAE's
V-series 3/8" drive sockets..
5 SK sockets
15mm Snapon and Action 522A
2 Powr-Kraft Sockets, an Indestro, and a 1/4" drive Proto
Fulton #9 brace bit for slot screws and a unique brace adapter for 1/4" and under round drill bits. Latly, the 12" Proto Professional adjustable 712S
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...the rest of the closeups
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I have some serious drool going on over those Cman V series flex sockets. So far as I'm concerned that IS, in fact, the find of the day for you.
PS - I may well have the missing child already. I have several loose flex sockets you've already sent me in V series.
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I'll keep the newish one for my tool box then. I'm getting old and not keeping track like I used to do......lol
DM&FS