Craigslist and Garage sale scores!

[Zeke]

[QUOTE=mthomas58;11445555]Moved 96 yr old father in law into Independent Living Faility two weeks ago who has never thrown anything away. Cleaning out his house to prepare it for sale has been a nightmare - been at it for three weeks with daily trips to the dump. He had a vintage circa 1950'a LAU box fan that works well but was a rusty mess. Did a tear down and repaint. Found a couple on eBay - asking price $250!





Screw the fan, I like your cooking setup!!

[billybek]

[QUOTE=Zeke;11447370]

Originally Posted by mthomas58

Moved 96 yr old father in law into Independent Living Faility two weeks ago who has never thrown anything away. Cleaning out his house to prepare it for sale has been a nightmare - been at it for three weeks with daily trips to the dump. He had a vintage circa 1950'a LAU box fan that works well but was a rusty mess. Did a tear down and repaint. Found a couple on eBay - asking price $250!





Screw the fan, I like your cooking setup!!

My thoughts exactly!

[URY914]

Yard sale Saturday. All for $10.00! The box wrench is a Blue Point.

Score!

[varmint]

Bought a box of drafting tools. There are a pair of Dietzgen Elsastichuks. Almost no information about them online except that guys on eBay want a ridiculous amount of money for them.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by URY914

The box wrench is a Blue Point.

Blue Point is the name of the street I lived on when I was living in Naples in '90.....

[snbush67]

https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/d/globe-chevy/7379422530.html

[Baz]

Picked up a wooden shelf unit curbside that was being tossed. It was just what I needed to organize this corner of my garage. Still a bit cluttered but after this winter when I finish my side yard storage area things will be how they should be.

[porsche930dude]

The longboard was $5. at a yard sale the rest was free. I stopped for the wheelbarrows at the curb I had to go back with the truck and the guy was cleaning out gave me the 026 chainsaw and pressure washer they were sitting for 10 years but i cleaned them up a little and got them going they run great. I fixed all the wheel barrow tires and they are now for sale. Also gave me a tractor seat ill use in on something eventually

[rfuerst911sc]

Nice score on the chainsaw and pressure washer !!!!

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by porsche930dude

The longboard was $5. at a yard sale the rest was free. I stopped for the wheelbarrows at the curb I had to go back with the truck and the guy was cleaning out gave me the 026 chainsaw and pressure washer they were sitting for 10 years but i cleaned them up a little and got them going they run great. I fixed all the wheel barrow tires and they are now for sale. Also gave me a tractor seat ill use in on something eventually

Man, you scored big time. I'm lucky if I find a 2 x 4 w/o nails in it. And yes, I will stop and pick it up if over 4 feet.

[porsche930dude]

Yup this is the second stihl i found on the curb the other one is a ms251 it was like new the guy left the chain brake on and melted the clutch and oil pump it was a mess but i fixed it up and use it all the time. Im going to keep one of the big plastic wheelbarrows also they seem to work quite nice

[Baz]

Agree that was a massive score there 930 dude.....

I scored a pretty decent bicycle someone was tossing away today. Also a pile of plywood in various dimensions - mostly rectangles and squares - that had been used as hurricane covers for windows, etc. Mostly less than 1/2" thickness, which is fine with me. I can use these for a lot of different projects. There were also a bunch of 3 1/2" Deckmate screws in them I was able to remove to use again.

[Zeke]

You guys amaze me. I grabbed a piece of 3/4" EMT full 10' out of the alley. New. That's big for me.
Why would anyone toss new conduit? Maybe they didn't know what it is. That stuff, along with everything else, has gone WAY up in cost.

[Pazuzu]

Technics SL-23 turntable, $20. Not working.

She had sold it to someone earlier, and it arrived with a broken lid and "not working". Dude returned it. So, she put it up as broken.

Yes, the lid is cracked, I glued it back together, it's not great but it's a lid again.
Otherwise...just missing a belt, must have broken in transit. $5 later, it had a belt, and 20 minutes with some DeOxit and it was working perfectly.

It's not a thousand dollar turntable, but it is considered one of the great ones, and they seem to go for $100-200 online.

Oh...it also had an Audio Technica AT331lp cartridge with the original Line Contact needle...those seem to go for $150 themselves.

[1990C4S]

Makita portable air compressor, $40.

Starts, fills both tanks to 120 psi really quickly, won't restart when it drops to 80 psi, trips the breaker.

Check valve has failed, I ordered a replacement from Amazon, it was under $20.

Not sure why I needed a fourth compressor though.

[porsche930dude]

Some cool books from the swap meet. Also got a mg-tc repair manual, a morris minor factory service manual and a few honda manuals. $20. for all

[herr_oberst]

Found a Black and Decker Workmate on the curb with a roached top, and a few days later a dining room table with a thick wood top was freepiled, so I combined the two and created a new 30" x 20" bench-top Workmate with a 5” leaf.

[Scott Douglas]

^^^Now that is pretty cool.

[herr_oberst]

Thanks! This is the second one I've made. I'll try to find pix of the other one in progress..

[herr_oberst]

This is the first Workmate hack I built:
I started with the scrap Workmate my neighbor offered me, a junk aluminum level for the side risers, a freepile IKEA butcher-block cart, a beautiful 1” thick hard masonite-and-formica top and some casters scabbed from an ANTHRO cart that was being discarded at work.
The final product is sturdy and portable. I use it all the time in the garage.








(You can see the 5” leaf leaning against the leg in the shot below.)