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Car boot sale bargain finds
krv3000:
hi all well not a car boot sale but a auction i got a large tool box full of stuff for £9 sum pics two Tyre levers 1 mm radius gage 1 whit thread gage 1 0 to 1" more and right mike assorted punches sum bare stock a Stanly screwdriver ratchet type two plane screwdrivers a line level for brick work a per of Stiltons a moor and right scraper 4 moor and Right calipers 3 tap handles 1 is a long retch type 1 die holder a sorted 1/4 sockets a sorted driver bits sum hacksaw bladed two hammers 1 without a Handel a sorted alien keys two valve guide cleaners 1 large folding ruler a Stanly knife and much more
andyf:
Great haul, Bob.
Round here, most traditional engineering (in Trafford Park) died out too long ago for stuff to still be coming up at boot sales. I live in hope, but it's depressing looking round boxes of old VHS tapes, cassette recorders and suchlike...
Andy
dsquire:
Bob
Another nice find for you. With all these tools you keep finding you will soon have to have sale to make more room for more deals that you find. :D
What looks to be a bunch of junky old tools sure comes to life under your skill full hands. Well done. :clap: :clap:
Cheers :beer:
Don
philf:
--- Quote from: andyf on July 26, 2013, 06:45:05 PM ---Great haul, Bob.
Round here, most traditional engineering (in Trafford Park) died out too long ago for stuff to still be coming up at boot sales. I live in hope, but it's depressing looking round boxes of old VHS tapes, cassette recorders and suchlike...
Andy
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Andy,
You told me you lived in Sale!
I too am peed off seeing all the goodies our MadModder colleagues pick up every week. As you say, round here it's mostly crap on offer. We have one once a month at our local train station (we actually have two stations in our small town!) and I always wander down hoping to find a set of Myford Collets or a well kitted out watchmaker's lathe for £5 but when I wake from my dream all there is is boxes of mobile phone chargers, 33.6K modems, obsolete telephones, scart leads, kids toys etc. etc.
In the last year I'd be surprised if I'd spent as much as £5. (£4 on two Record Stilsons.)
There's one this Sunday and I'll be there - no doubt wasting another 30 minutes of my life!
Phil.
andyf:
Yes, Sale it is, Phil, but I reckon the likeliest source is ex-Trafford Park stuff. Sale isn'r known for industry.
25 years back, I did score a nice free heap of light section brass and stainless from a guy who had retired from Budenberg Gauge in Altrincham, but their site is now a huge apartment block.
Andy
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