I Love Small Town City-Wide Yard Sales!!

[dimwittedmoose51]

Had a great Saturday sniffing around for tools in Washburn Iowa, followed by an estate sale in Waterloo which actually did the tools before the antiques, clocks, and furniture.  Very clean stuff and prices were decent to great.  Finally scored a green wrinkle finish SK diamond logo tool box and the drive tools that went with it.  Gonna try a different approach to the pictures and see if that works.  The overall layout of the plywood table is most everything worth mentioning.

[Nolatoolguy]

SK box and drive tools, I gotta see this :)

[dimwittedmoose51]

A view of the over all table of stuff from Saturday

[Neals]

Nice haul. I went to one last year and ran out of money. Went again this year to the same on and nothing worth buying. Came home with a box of western pocket novels.

[amertrac]

Nice haul. I went to one last year and ran out of money. Went again this year to the same on and nothing worth buying. Came home with a box of western pocket novels.

You like westerns too. do you get the western channel on tv  24 hours a day of real westerns even from the thirties   bob w.

[dimwittedmoose51]

Notatoolgy, here's your wish....  The tool box itself cleaned up very nicely with Fast Orange pumice hand cleaner rubbed gently over the lid and sides.  The bottom of the top tray had surface rust o it, but the bottom of the tool box and no rust and the wrinkle finish inside is nearly immaculate.  Left to right, there's a new in package Truecraft Pipe cutter made in Spain, aan SK 3/8" drive set of metric sockets7-19mm with the original price tag still in it, a really cool brass Eagle oil can, the 90 degree 4 way slot driver is a Millers Falls,  Blue Point DOE, SK Combo wrench, all the Drive tools are the older diamond SK logo, except the Bonney speeder on the right side of the photo, the circle of 1/2" drive sockets are virtually new, and the 4" adjustable is from Diamond Caulk.

[dimwittedmoose51]

This section of the table has a brake sring pliers from Bonney, the little red handled tool is a Tru Arc"installation " tool, but for what I have no clue, The 2 blow torches mentioned in the blow torch thread with the non- Turner 3-A torch having an HM logo on it, the wooden block plane is a Buncher(hard to read the letters), and the 14" one below it is a Millers Falls($5 each).

[dimwittedmoose51]

This photo has some misc SK sockets and wrenches, along with some Billings, Indestro, Armstrong etc, then a nearly full set of old Proto double box end ratchet wrenches from 1/4" to 3/4", 3 vintage V series Craftsman ratchets(close up to follow) and a lineman.s pliers and wrenches, the 1/2" drive Duro Chrome rat #672 and 2 exts. that is missing a screw, but otherwise pretty cherry, there's an Award screwdriver at the bottom and 4 Protos(3 woodies) at the top, and a Metal box from Miller that I have no idea what the bits  and pieces inside do.  The beer box flat at the top has a bunch of well organized screws etc.

[dimwittedmoose51]

Final shot is of an immaculate Wards Master Quality square that still has its scribe in the bottom of the handle and a really cool old parts organizer from PowrKraft.  Never seen either one before.

[johnsironsanctuary]

Nice Haul Moose. Your crown as the Champion Plunderer is undisturbed. I do worry a little about the weight of all of those tools concentrated in one spot. It may affect the earth's gravity.

[Branson]

The blade in the wooden try-plane is a W. Butcher of Sheffield, England.  In my experience, one of the best edged tool makers.  Dependable quality of steel.   Along with D.R. Barton, L&I.J. White, Buck Brothers, W. Butcher is about as good as it gets.

[Neals]

Nice haul. I went to one last year and ran out of money. Went again this year to the same on and nothing worth buying. Came home with a box of western pocket novels.

You like westerns too. do you get the western channel on tv  24 hours a day of real westerns even from the thirties   bob w.

The channel is available. I cancelled it a few years ago when I realized TV was setting the household scedule.