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Offline dimwittedmoose51

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Thursday Motherlode on Bluff St.
« on: September 10, 2011, 04:46:03 AM »
Found this sale on Craigslist and thought it was a local junktique guy that runs sales from time to time, but this was a couple blocks up the street.  The garage was loaded with battery drills, etc, but I found several tool boxes full of old stuff and proceeded to make a pile at the guy's feet that just kept on growing.  As more folks showed up, I had to work faster to grab  what was there and I came away with a bunch of stuff for $50, a fair amount that will get resold either at Cattle congress or elsewhere.  I'll run the photos and then maybe make some comments, but never seen a Gambles/Artisan Tool Box or a pr. of Nicopress crimpers from National Phone Co.

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Re: Thursday Motherlode on Bluff St.
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2011, 04:51:39 AM »
The flex/speeder photo goes like this

SK Flex 41653
SK 40181
Fleet 1675
SnapOn K-406
Mustang M-385
PowerKraft 84W 4857
PowerKraft 84W 4840

Somewhere in all those potos is a BluegrassTGB7033-C 1x15/16" DBE that's in exc. condition too.
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Re: Thursday Motherlode on Bluff St.
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2011, 05:45:07 AM »
jackpot!!
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Re: Thursday Motherlode on Bluff St.
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2011, 07:06:08 AM »
Quote from: kxxr on September 10, 2011, 05:45:07 AM
jackpot!!

At least jackpot!!  What a haul!
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Re: Thursday Motherlode on Bluff St.
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2011, 08:32:29 AM »
$50 well spent!
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Re: Thursday Motherlode on Bluff St.
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2011, 08:41:29 AM »
The pipe wrench photo goes like this

2 Rigids
Channellock Ball Peen(didn't know they ever did hammers)
Plumb claw hammer
12" Crescent(handle is a tad bent)
Toledo Pipe Wrench
12" "Tool Steel" PW
3 Rigids(one has a weld on the handle)
Nicopress crimper(NAtional Phone Co.)
Lampson Monkey
Coes Monkey
2 No names
Deere &Co.
Dunlap
Sampson(I think, rivet ran through the logo)
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Re: Thursday Motherlode on Bluff St.
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2011, 08:49:35 AM »
The "Red Tray" Photo goes sorta like this from the lower left:
Pretty much a full set of Wards DOE's with the inlaid fractions
PowrKraft DOE
Bonney DOE
Barcalo Buffalo N-10
Indestro #924
8" w. german Adj. wrench(logo is too faint to pull out)
SK 3/8" drive ratchet(exc. to near mint)45170
Auto Kit sold by sears but no logo

Haven't gone through the stuff on the extreme left yet, but  I did see one old Blue Point in there

The other two tool boxes were a pretty nice Park and a Union.

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Re: Thursday Motherlode on Bluff St.
« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2011, 09:00:52 AM »
A few closeups and a couple other photos of stuff from the sale

The TRW fender cover is in near mint shape and I wondered if anyone knew when this was made??  Not really a tool, but many a tool was laid upon it, I'll bet.

« Last Edit: September 11, 2011, 06:12:32 AM by dimwittedmoose51 »
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Re: Thursday Motherlode on Bluff St.
« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2011, 01:10:10 PM »
Cowabunga!!

What is the deep offset shorty DBE in the extreme upper left of pic #6? The red shelf and orange tray photo? Is that the Indestro #924?
« Last Edit: September 10, 2011, 01:17:23 PM by bonneyman »
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Re: Thursday Motherlode on Bluff St.
« Reply #9 on: September 10, 2011, 01:31:02 PM »
$50??!!

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Re: Thursday Motherlode on Bluff St.
« Reply #10 on: September 10, 2011, 01:53:08 PM »
 Congradulations, you should have made him room to get his car in the garage.
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Re: Thursday Motherlode on Bluff St.
« Reply #11 on: September 10, 2011, 02:13:16 PM »
Nice finds
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Re: Thursday Motherlode on Bluff St.
« Reply #12 on: September 10, 2011, 06:05:40 PM »
That's the payback for hitting a lot of sales that have zero items you are interested in. When I hear people say they dont like to go to yard/estate sales, I just laugh, more good stuff for me when I hit a good one!!

Enjoy the goodies !!

Brian L.
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Re: Thursday Motherlode on Bluff St.
« Reply #13 on: September 10, 2011, 06:17:07 PM »
Bonneyman:  The DBE Deep offset is a 3/8x7/16 old Craftsman "Vanadium" series wrench.  fair amount of the plating is gone from one side of it, but still very functional.  Early enough wrench that I don't think it has numbers on it.

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Re: Thursday Motherlode on Bluff St.
« Reply #14 on: September 10, 2011, 08:58:11 PM »
heck of a haul!
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