Craigslist and Garage sale scores!

[jyl]

Originally Posted by greglepore

No, I'll give you 300 for the one with the timer...lol.

I just set the Major up. Hey! Shots are better than with my Macap! Think the Major is going be my main grinder.

[stevej37]

Just received an email...buyer wants to pick-up on Monday.
https://grandrapids.craigslist.org/ele/d/fremont-15-advent-subwoofer/7593208861.html

[porsche930dude]

Picked up this old suzuki on marketplace. it was advertized for 250 we got it for 60. This is the actual picture in the ad. Its not much better in person. Locked up and missing alot of parts. Just the sort of project we like.

[futuresoptions]

Baz finds the coolest stuff, he should open a resale shop lol

[masraum]

I just bought these on eBay, so not exactly from a garage sale or craigslist, but this seemed like the best place to post them. These are EC Simmons Keen Kutter scissors that match R Heinisch scissors with an 1859 patent from Newark, NJ. The R Heinisch are usually listed as "sale maker's scissors". They are 13+ inches long and almost 3#. They were surprisingly cheap, $20. The R Heinisch scissors are listed at anywhere from $60 up to $300+. I suspect these are from the mid-to-late 1800s (after 1859), and were just too cool for me to pass up.

[varmint]

[masraum]

Originally Posted by varmint

Wow, that looks like a pretty good score considering those are in the 15-35¢ range. I think I started collecting (a teen buying new issues and some back issues) around the issues 140-150 range, a little after the "dark phoenix" thing. As a kid, I was careful with them and since I was "collecting" I putt them all in gallon ziplock bags. I've still got a couple of boxes in storage full of X-men, Daredevil, etc....

[varmint]

most are pretty beat up. far from mint. but i just want to complete the collection. have almost all the x-men from 100-300. the ones i'm missing are high dollar. the economy got bad and guys started dumping their collections. but some issues are always going to be out of reach.

have all the miller daredevil, and most of the nocenti.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by varmint

most are pretty beat up. far from mint. but i just want to complete the collection. have almost all the x-men from 100-300. the ones i'm missing are high dollar. the economy got bad and guys started dumping their collections. but some issues are always going to be out of reach.

have all the miller daredevil, and most of the nocenti.

Wow, impressive!

[varmint]

not sure if a grown man bragging about his comic collection is "impressive".

the 80s were the best era for comics. the x-men had some great books, but never surpassed dark phoenix.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by varmint

not sure if a grown man bragging about his comic collection is "impressive".

the 80s were the best era for comics. the x-men had some great books, but never surpassed dark phoenix.

That's one of the issues that I never got. I started "collecting" after and couldn't afford it even then.

[varmint]

i don't want to goad someone into yet another time and money wasting collector hobby. but a beater copy of x-men 137 is 20-30 bucks on eBay.

its all about getting the stuff we couldn't have when we were twelve.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by varmint

i don't want to goad someone into yet another time and money wasting collector hobby. but a beater copy of x-men 137 is 20-30 bucks on eBay.

its all about getting the stuff we couldn't have when we were twelve.

I have a stack of old comics. Some of the Conan the Barbarian series. Probably none are collectors.

I also have a stack of Car and Driver, Hot Rod, and Sports Illustrated. Most from the good old days.

And most of all surf mags - mostly "Surfer" and "Surfing" but also "Tracks" and "SW" (Surfing World) from Oz.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Baz

I have a stack of old comics. Some of the Conan the Barbarian series. Probably none are collectors.

I also have a stack of Car and Driver, Hot Rod, and Sports Illustrated. Most from the good old days.

And most of all surf mags - mostly "Surfer" and "Surfing" but also "Tracks" and "SW" (Surfing World) from Oz.

You might be surprised about the comics. Of course, having the comics and getting good money for them is 2 different things. I'm assuming most of the car mags probably aren't worth a ton. I've bought some old, OLD car mags online and most were pretty dirt cheap. No idea about the surfing stuff.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by masraum

You might be surprised about the comics. Of course, having the comics and getting good money for them is 2 different things. I'm assuming most of the car mags probably aren't worth a ton. I've bought some old, OLD car mags online and most were pretty dirt cheap. No idea about the surfing stuff.

Back in the early 80's I put a few pro surfers up at my house here during a stop on the pro tour.

One was the director of competition, an Aussie named "Fatty" Al Hunt. (all Aussies have nicknames).

He was a surf mag collector and his eBay handle was Surf Mags. Probably had the largest collection in the entire planet!

EDIT: Just did a Google search and looks like Al found a new home for his collection!

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Late last month the Noosa Surf Museum at Tewantin took delivery of the world’s largest collection of surfing literature, a prize coveted by surf collectors around the world, but one that has sat in more than 400 boxes stacked floor to ceiling in a two-car garage on the Central Coast of NSW for decades.

More than 19,640 magazines across 600 titles from 41 countries covering more than six decades of surfing history since the first editions of specific surf titles began popping out of California and East Coast Australia at the dawn of the 1960s, plus a sizeable collection of books of surf fiction, guides, histories and biographies, and a secondary collection of double-up copies which, at more than 5000 magazines, is probably the world’s second biggest collection.

The collection first went to market in early 2020, just as Covid kicked in, with an asking price of $US200,000.

There was a flurry of interest from collectors in the US and Australia, but most wanted to buy full sets of particular magazines, like Surfer (1960-2019) or Surfing World (established 1962 and still going), but collection owner Al Hunt was adamant – the world’s greatest surfing reference library was too important to split.

Al stuck to his guns and his garage remained full until two weeks ago, when a very large removals truck deposited the collection at entrepreneur and collector Keith Grisman’s Noosa Surf Museum.

The sale, negotiated over the winter, was for an undisclosed price but Noosa Today believes it was just in excess of $100,000.

Al Hunt, now 72, was just a teenager and promising surfer from Sydney’s North Narrabeen when he drove to Bells Beach in Victoria for the annual Easter surf contest in 1966, sitting in the back seat of film-maker and publisher Bob Evans’ station wagon, where his feet rested on boxes of Evans’ magazine, Surfing World.

Perhaps feeling guilty about stealing Al’s leg space, Evans told him to take a copy of each edition. Al Hunt spent the rest of the 10-hour journey devouring every page. A collection that would become an obsession had begun.

By the end of the ‘70s Hunt had forsaken his surf star ambitions for a more assured career path on the administrative side of surfing’s new professional organisation and world tour, first with the International Professional Surfers agency run out of Hawaii, then with the California-based Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) which grew the tour for more than 30 years, prior to a takeover in 2013 by media billionaire Dirk Ziff, who founded the World Surf League.

Judge, administrator, statistician and go-to guy as required, Hunt was along for the ride for more than 40 years of dedicated service, which has seen him honoured by several surfing territories since his retirement in 2020, most recently adding his footprints to the Huntington Beach Surfing Walk of Fame in California.

More here:
https://noosatoday.com.au/news/04-09-2022/prized-collection-for-noosa/

[masraum]

Wow!

[Baz]

On my way home yesterday from working at one of my accounts I spotted this curbside.........

8 drawer rolling caddy.......will come in handy!

[70SATMan]

That’s the devil right thar. Stuff to put more stuff in!

[WPOZZZ]

The weak point is the lip of the bin. They tend to crack.

[nota]

I keep finding big cans of f-22 cheap a/c gas like 40 for 10lbs sealed pure as the tanks only go out
low list out of china is about 40 a lb locals are about 60 wholesale

sadly needed it as my king valve leaks if the latest goop fix fails
plus the inside leakstop injection I did
the silver solder torch is coming out to seal that sucker up

otherwise I would be trying PROPANE AKA R/F-290 if pure no water but 14 a lb
and unlike f-22 and many other a/c gases one can buy the stuff without a lic/exam/permit

btw many new ice box window a/c unit are propane NOW