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Weekly community thrift haul thread

Dan Dubeau said:
I have a small eggbeater hand drill that I put a countersink in for the same reason. Also have up a Yankee screwdriver to do the same with, but just never got around to it. Consider it yours if ya want it.
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Yikes. Thanks for the offer, but I'd need to start a MTA Manual Tools Anonymous if I got any more. I just couldn't resist this one.
Currently:
Buffalo two-speed hand-crank post drill with 1/2" keyless chuck. (This one gets used all the time.)
Four carpenter's braces - one with a 1/2" drill chuck, one with a 3/8" square drive for sockets, one with a 1/4" square drive, one with an original two-jaw chuck for old-style auger bits
Two Yankee screwdrivers, one with original pull-back chuck and one with a 1/4" hex chuck for screwdriver bits
Two eggbeater drills, one regular sized (I bought in new in 1968), and one tiny one with a folding handle that's great for tight spaces
Two breast drills, one with a 1/2" Jacobs chuck, and one with the original two-jaw chuck.
And the new #41 push drill.

I think I'm probably good for now, but who knows?
 
The first garage sale I went to had lots of airplane books. The second had lots of tools and I picked up my Record metalworking vice.

15 years later and I finally came across another tool I wanted- a wood plane made in Canada that’s about 2’ long…

My wife loves Value Village, but all the tools I’ve ever seen there have been crap.
 
Yankees are dangerous to fine cabinetry, they slip and gouge . Before variable speed drills, (yeah Skil ) we used Yankees to drive screws. I remember building fly forms for a high rise, we screwed the rusification on with Roberson screws. I still have my big Yankee form those carpentry apprenticeship days. But do I love my 1/4" impact, BTW .

I've picked up hand tools at the fleamarket for what I consider peanuts, $5. In '72 I paid $47 for the same Sandvik #280 model handsaw, the best available at the time. That was all my spending money for the month. Being a poor first year apprentice, I couldn't afford dates for that month. .
 
Downwindtracker2 said:
Yankees are dangerous to fine cabinetry, they slip and gouge . Before variable speed drills, (yeah Skil ) we used Yankees to drive screws. I remember building fly forms for a high rise, we screwed the rusification on with Roberson screws. I still have my big Yankee form those carpentry apprenticeship days.
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What's a Yankee? (I'm pretty sure you don't mean an American)
 
A spiral driven screwdriver or dill. I'm going by a rather faulty memory , but I think it was an independent company until Stanley bought it.

The drills were handy for screw pilot holes. A lot of screws were flat bladed which is even worse then Philips , so they needed the holes.
 
Downwindtracker2 said:
Yankees are dangerous to fine cabinetry, they slip and gouge . Before variable speed drills, (yeah Skil ) we used Yankees to drive screws. I remember building fly forms for a high rise, we screwed the rusification on with Roberson screws. I still have my big Yankee form those carpentry apprenticeship days. But do I love my 1/4" impact, BTW .
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I started in the trade 40 some years ago. We had a lot of guys from Scotland and England from the ship building industry. When they were laid off at the dockyard in St Catharines or Hamilton, they would come work at the shop I worked at. One guy assembled everything with a Yankee screwdriver, a block plane, smoothing plane and a handsaw. I am not sure how they let him get away with it. The other 15 of us were using power drills, drivers, and industrial saws and sanders. I remember him well because he was hanging some solid core doors for a bank and he had them leaning against his bench. They went to fall over, so he stuck his leg out to stop them, and 1400 pounds of doors crushed his leg.
 
By the late '70s, I had moved north, working on dams ,gas plants, mines and pulp mills. One of the crew was a Scot from Glasgow. He had apprenticed as a joiner ( interior trim carpenter basically) . One of their contracts was trimming out a ship, it was Glasgow after all. At quitting time his journeyman came to get him. Scotty moaned he still had that door to fit. Ship builders don't always understand the concept of square. His Journeyman took out his handaxe and quickly trimmed the door to fit. I used a handaxe , a hatchet sharpened on one side, to shape shiplap boards used as starters on wall forms when we had poorly poured footings. I certainly couldn't trim a door with it.
 
I've been driving into t.o. for 2 months now. Stopping semi frequently at a bunch of different thrift stores and pawn shops on my way back home and the deals have been very dry. Aside for a wrench or hammer here and there. Today I scored pretty good though.

Im designing a new battery tool and needed a brushless tool as a doner. Picked up this 18v makita mini impact for $35 which "should" be perfect for my needs. I shouldn't require any major modifications so I can put it back to an impact if my experiment doesn't work lol.
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It works great despite being filthy inside with either drywall dust or cocaine. I'll know in a couple days which if I haven't slept yet.

Working on modeling up the important components now and it should show up in a build thread hopefully soon. Could be a year or more though, who knows.
 
Also got a small set of open end wrenches that I'm going to grind thin for jam nut wrenches. I needed one on a job a few months back and made one to fit from some sheet metal to get by (was not in the mood to grind my protos) and have been keeping an eye out for something suitable in the bargain bins ever since.
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Forged in usa, should work fine. Ill grind them all down, stick them in my box and never need one again. 🙂
 
I have a stubby like that I welded a socket (to make a crows foot) to do my tie rods on the SxS. I love having a surplus of cheap but quality tools to modify for jobs when needed. It helps so you don't have to think about cutting up your good ones......Thrift stores and pawn shops are a great source for stock.
 
Chicken lights said:
So I'll throw in this stubby that seems absolutely useless but came in a junk lot purchase to make my post stay on topic
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Looks just like the one I used to travel with.

Damn hotels always install these water savers in the shower head. I cannot get clean being dripped on. I need lots of water or I just end up with curly fur.

So I made a little wrench like that to take the shower head apart and remove the orifice. When I check out I reinstall the orifice.

Happy Happy!
 
Susquatch said:
Looks just like the one I used to travel with.

Damn hotels always install these water savers in the shower head. I cannot get clean being dripped on. I need lots of water or I just end up with curly fur.

So I made a little wrench like that to take the shower head apart and remove the orifice. When I check out I reinstall the orifice.

Happy Happy!
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Ha ha. I did something like that on our honeymoon in a B&B in Scotland. There were two electric heaters in the room The host told us one didn't work but the other one although slow would still warm up the room. This was at a time when we saw pails of coal delivered outside the doors of houses in Edinburgh.

Anyway, British plugs being what they were have fuses in them. The heater she told us to use didn't have a fuse so I don't think it would ever really get warm. The defective heater did have a fuse but of course didn't work. No problem. I moved the fuse. Room was nice and toasty warm when the Host came in with a tray of Tea and Biscuits. I'm sure she was surprised at how warm it was in the room.

And yes, the next morning I put the fuse back.
 
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