Been off the grid for a while getting ready for the trip to Arkansas for a former company's employee's reunion, but I did remember to bring some cash for yard sales and pawn shops. Two Saturdays ago I hit one in N. Little rock and was absolutely floored by the wrench and socket stash he had. Bought 13 items and left $20 poorer, but that haul included , , and a ratchet,so I didn't feel too bad. It averaged out to $1.30 a piece. He had an immaculate set of Proto sockets(1/2" drive) that I should've gone back for on Monday. On Sunday morning, I hit 3 or 4 Estate sales(guess the Bible Belt moved further south, as I don't remember yard sales and estate sales happening before church let out when I lived down there) at 8AM. Spent like $5 at one and $8 at another. Nothing major at these, but then I went to a competing Pawn down the road from the Saturday guy and spent 30 minutes rummaging and had maybe 7 items and he wanted $20 for the handful and i just put them o nthe table and said thanks, but no thanks. He didn't even try to haggle. Some Pawnies are hungrier than others I guess.
As I was heading home I passed through Fayetteville and cruised up through Rogers and found a pawn shop in a nice new metal building and went inside. The guy was friendly and I milled through his tool stash and found some interesting wrenches and a cool old Keen Kutter jigsaw for $10 He had a price of $9 on the saw by itself, so he was very flexible. Big haul there was a 4" SK 1/4"drive mini ratchet and a German combination wrench called a Belzer. He had several other Belzers there, but they had $4-8 price tags on them each and since I wasn't familiar with the brand, I took one at .50 and got out of there.
Another interesting find at one of the houses was the Wooden handled Craftsman spiral screw driver that looked virtually new. It said it was made in Germany too. Go figure.
I'll write up yesterday's auction a bit later down the road. Got home okay.
From left to right :
A Falstaff beer church key(couldn't resist)
Craftsman Pliers
1299 Stanley steel/cast iron utility knife
7 Powr-Kraft wrenches, mostly metric
Hazet V-10 DOE
Fairmont 4114 12 pt. flare nut wrench
Craftsman Wood handled German made 6906 spiral screwdriver(like new)
Crescent K-1702 #2 Phillips
FKF Stuba 19mm OE
Cornwell 3/8" CW-1212
Peerless German side cutters
Upper:
Stanley #59 dowel jig
Husky DBEH8727-A
Craftsman Malleable C clamp 66675
True Craft 1020 Combo
True Craft Swivel socket/OE 7/16"
Husky Flex overCB-51
Husky 3/8" ratchet CB-45
SK 1/4" ratchet 40970
McKaig Hatch DOE 7/8"x 13/16"
New Britain NDF-54 1/2" Combo
Belzer Super Block #1952 1/2"
Samson DOE 3/4"x5/8"
Turtle's Standard Gauge straight edge
Blackhawk 1/2" ratrchet 49945
Stanley 100 Plus Slot SW 106xx?
New Britain NS-44 1/2" Ratchet
Proto 3/4" drive 18" extension 5663
