Stopped at an indoor flea market/warehouse last Thursday...all of their items are donated, salvaged, leftover garage/yard sale items, just dropped off, etc. All profits help fund a local Boys & Girls Club...nearly nothing has prices...you just rummage through bins, select your treasures & check out. Items are pretty well organized though and have their own locations. I've been going here for a few years now so they know me by name.  I've overpaid for what I pick very few times, but in the long run I've done quite well. This place is several thousand square feet and has about everything you could imagine. Sometimes new, old stock, some things that should be trashed...I'll try to remember to take some pics one of these trips.

 

Anyways, $17.30 with tax for this pile of treasures...Thanks for looking...

Combination square was pretty rusty, but I liked the ornate head. Turned out to be a Union Tool Company square; Predates 1957 when Miller Falls bought Union Tools. Probably from the late 1940's?

The Stanley Yankee I bought for the #2 bit only; never been used but was really stuck in the chuck.

~Great Neck T-20 Torx, 1/4" drive socket; new

~no name center punch, new;

~no name, stubby ratcheting& reversing screwdriver with #2 bit, 1/4" hex drive; very smooth operating and fine tooth

~Stanley combo square head (plastic), bought only for scale clamp bolt nut,

~pack of 10-32 wing nuts, new;

~(2) 50 packs of #10 biscuits new unopened

~replacement hook for come-a-long, new

Nylon 2" clamp with two, 3/8" NF thread bores;  bought because didn't have one

Late 1950's to mid 1960's Wen 909 All Saw...sort of a jig, scroll, reciprocating saw...I had one in my hands at a flea market a few years back for $10 and put it back;

I just remember seeing these advertised in magazines in the 60's; It'll go in the ever growing power tool refurbish bin for now.

 

Shoe is bent a little (probably been dropped??) but I can straighten in the arbor press; Oh yeah, (2) new Amerock garment hooks that match one bath hardware exactly

Girls need a place to hang towels or whatever

Union Tool company, Orange Mass. CARP= Carpenters square versus Machinists

The Stanley combo square head was a parts donor of the scale retainer to this Stanley 125 combo square I purchased last year at a yard sale; this one has a location

position to set studs 16" OC. You can see the drill holes in the scale and body where previous owner screwed it together

My homemade 12" bit storage; cardboard tube from something of the kids, cut to length, 2/3 coast of Johnson's Wax, a couple of plastic caps

There was some pitting that wouldn't polish out, but not bad...cleaned up well

Pic posted a while back with the bit in the before state. All this crap stuff came from the same place... 

Nice Score!

 

Those 2 bags of biscuits would probably cost close to that, retail

don't mind me..

I'm just envious..

Nice bunch of old tools you gathered there.

I have a Wen just like that so I say what in the world made you buy that? Or did he pay you to take it??? Probably same model. I haven't touched mine since about 1958 when I got drafted and stored all that junk at my moms house. Remember being metal you sure need a three prong plug on the end of the wire. Back then lots of guys took off the ground for convenience and turned it into a way to get electrocuted.

2 hours ago, Smallpatch said:

I have a Wen just like that so I say what in the world made you buy that? Or did he pay you to take it???

Figured you probably had one, so I knew it was something I needed No, since it was a vintage (mid-century modern) tool they hated to let it go, but since it was me they decided it probably would be OK since I had cash

Edited September 11, 20178 yr by Grandpadave52

I have never used it Dave. This was either my dads or later ,step dad's. My dad died in 1951 as I was 15 so I can't remember who owned it!  It use to run but with all the dirt dobbers around here I don't pull the trigger until I make sure things have been cleaned out.

   It was always too big and bulky and I've had smaller and lighter weight machines I liked better...I doubt if they have any antique value unless you can catch Gene with his pants down,so to speak, and make a few bucks.

 

Did you notice the plug in the first picture. It never had a ground wire. And it probably came that way.???

 I noticed it is an AC-DC so I could run it on the older Miller gas welders which some were both AC_DC equipped.  Use to a guy was smart to be sure the tools would run both currents before they would buy it.

They hated to let it go........... was only for your benefit to help lift the dollars out of your wallet!!!!

1 hour ago, Smallpatch said:

(1) It was always too big and bulky and I've had smaller and lighter weight machines I liked better...

(2)I doubt if they have any antique value...

(3)unless you can catch Gene with his pants down,so to speak, and make a few bucks.

(1)Yes built like a tank...I'll likely not use it much...Did I need it? ABSOLUTELY _not. Someday, my daughter will have to figure out what to do with all of this stuff. Sort of posthumous favor payback

(2) http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-WEN-all-Saw-Model-909-includes-all-pictured-/131872794857  Maybe we should corner the market?

(3) Ummm...I'll defer this opportunity to you when he comes to PU the Powermatic Mortiser