Let me preface this story by telling you I have at least 15 tool boxes of various shapes and sizes I am carrying around in my little SUV.
I am trying to clear them out and have them listed on CL. That way I can meet a seller after work the same day I get a call.
So I stopped at a yard sale to look at a Kennedy chest, but it was in poor shape.
Leaving, I stopped to browse thru this open blue wood box and the seller yelled; take it all for $5.
"No, I cant do it, my wife will kill me !!" I replied. She was waiting in the SUV.
He comes over and drops a handful of more items in the box... and made the sale!
Wife really didn't care, 15, 16 , who's counting, anyway !
Got home and unpacked the box and was pleasantly surprised!
Upper left are some handle blanks(?), right of them are Buck Bros leather work tools(again, ?). Some triangles (those I am sure of). Chisels: top-J.R. Addis and sons,Greenlee and a Stanley. A Foreign 3' boxwood rule. Metal rules: 2 Starrets and a Lufkin.
Upper right is a Hartford Tool clamp, a Cman plane I will clean up and paint as the chrome is lost, a small spoke shave(?), part of machinest square I was in need of. Stainless steel pick set, Starret inside and outside caliphers/dividers, plumb bob,
some homemade knives, quality drill bits and a promo pen for a night soil pipe co.
Holy Smokes Batman !!
Didn't to bad at some other sales either. Lot of sales the weekend after Easter !!
Thorsen torque wrench, Walden ratchet with drive plug, Herbrand obstruction wrench, Maples chisel, older wrench, =v= and SK sockets, Barnes tool co bicycle wrench, Billings(?) T wrench and another T style wrench.
Bad news was I spent the rest of the weekend chasing an oil leak on a Mitsubishi, and didn't find it. Will have to take it to professional.
Brian
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