Author Topic: Car boot sale bargain finds (Read 121250 times)

micktoon · « **Reply #125 on:** October 09, 2013, 05:34:10 PM »

Not bad Bob , the mags were good find , that should keep you off the streets reading all of them !
Trev , I think the hammer might have started off as test piece for blacksmith apprentice or something and maybe not meant to be so long ? it looks like it was never finished so may have strayed from the drawing too much ?

Cheers Mick.

krv3000 · « **Reply #126 on:** October 14, 2013, 05:45:58 PM »

hi all well the weather was bad but i still managed to get to the booty and got sum new stuff a diamond hone for sharpening knives and a large eclipse punch 50p a bundle of 4 eclipse 14 teeth per inch hacksaw blades 20p a 1 inch reamer £1 and 5 tips £1 pics

micktoon · « **Reply #127 on:** October 14, 2013, 05:48:08 PM »

Good work Bob

you beat the weather lol, not bad stuff too , the old acid trick got the punch and reamer looking like new again

Cheers Mick.

Stilldrillin · « **Reply #128 on:** October 15, 2013, 01:57:50 AM »

That's a nice little haul, for the right price Bob!

Here. The rain's finally stopped. Been at it, since Friday.......

David D

krv3000 · « **Reply #129 on:** October 24, 2013, 02:42:57 PM »

hi went to the boot sale on Sunday and got sum new toys a thread gage for 50p a tin full of BA taps £3 and Wat is supposed to be a stop watch for 50p

mattinker · « **Reply #130 on:** October 24, 2013, 03:16:39 PM »

That's just the sort of stop watch you like to mend! You guys have all the luck, worthwhile stuff in car boot sales. Every time I visit my son in the South of England, i insist on going to a Car Boot sale, sometimes I get luck and find a good hammer or two, but never anything like you find up in the North!

regards, Matthew

kayz1 · « **Reply #131 on:** October 24, 2013, 04:09:36 PM »

Another good day KRV.

krv3000 · « **Reply #132 on:** October 27, 2013, 08:36:09 PM »

well bn at it today i got sum drills a punch and a hammer and a tool makers clamp and one of them helping hand things and sum files the hole lot £4

ibuildstuff4u · « **Reply #133 on:** November 03, 2013, 01:19:14 AM »

Well we don't have car boot sales here, but there is Craig's list and I have been finding some good deals lately.

This week I picked up a Craftsman 12" drill press for $100. (Sears sold these for around $300 when he purchased it.) It was new in the box and never put together. The guy got it as a gift and didn't want it. The seller said it was missing one of the handles for the quill but didn't realize that one of the three handles was suppose to be different and was right there in the box. I noticed he was wrong about the handle, but didn't point it out to him as that was why he listed it so cheap.

The drill press is loaded with features and has a Led work light, Laser tracking, a huge table, and the best part is a digital depth gauge!
I also LOVE the different handle for moving the quill up and down. Craftsman stopped making this model a few years ago and the new model has way less features which is a bummer as I would like to pickup a second or third drill and set up gang tooling on them.

Here is a picture of the new toy next to my 9" drill press.

Dale P.

krv3000 · « **Reply #134 on:** November 03, 2013, 05:09:44 PM »

hi well i whent to a difrent boot sale today and got 3 hamers for£4 1 of which im keeping the other to is for rob wilson and three tap's thort they wher ba but ther not think they are ME taps will have to look in me book to see wat they are

micktoon · « **Reply #135 on:** November 07, 2013, 06:28:22 PM »

Hi All , Due to mainly weather I have not been to many boot sales but got to an indoor market last week and got some new taper shank drills, a long series normal shank drill and a reamer , I got the lot for £10.
I can't remember the actual sizes off the top of my head but the long MT2 drill is 18 inches long, largest was 14.5mm I think , all good makes and unused so happy with them.

Cheers Mick

flutedchamber · « **Reply #136 on:** November 08, 2013, 12:02:36 AM »

Gentlemen,

We don't have car boot sales here (USA), but call them yard sales, etc. I was wondering why they are called car boot sales? Because you drive to them and store what you buy in the trunk of your car?

Sorry if this is a stupid question, I was wondering

Stilldrillin · « **Reply #137 on:** November 08, 2013, 02:26:23 AM »

Things have become more organised in recent times.

Originally. The sellers assembled their cars/ vans, in a field or car park area, and their wares are displayed on the ground, or a table, around the rear of the car.

David D

awemawson · « **Reply #138 on:** November 08, 2013, 04:05:12 AM »

Or indeed were in the boot of the car, hence the name

(For our American cousins boot = trunk)

Pete W. · « **Reply #139 on:** November 08, 2013, 04:09:54 AM »

Hi there, all,

Maybe a bit

but is there any news of Bob?

micktoon · « **Reply #140 on:** November 08, 2013, 04:19:18 AM »

Hi Pete, yes Bob got home yesterday and all seems well from what I can pick up from the texts he sent me.............no doubt he will be reporting in over the weekend, nice of you to ask though Pete I will pass on your regards when I phone him later on today.
Cheers Mick

Pete W. · « **Reply #141 on:** November 08, 2013, 04:33:27 AM »

Hi there, Mick,

Quote from: micktoon on November 08, 2013, 04:19:18 AM

Hi Pete, yes Bob got home yesterday and all seems well from what I can pick up from the texts he sent me.............no doubt he will be reporting in over the weekend, nice of you to ask though Pete I will pass on your regards when I phone him later on today.
Cheers Mick

Yes, please do.

Stilldrillin · « **Reply #142 on:** November 08, 2013, 04:51:00 AM »

That's great news Mick!

Regards from me too......

David D

awemawson · « **Reply #143 on:** November 08, 2013, 06:15:27 AM »

Please add me to the list of well wishers when you contact Bob - I'm sure that we all wish him a speedy recovery and a return to normality.

Andrew

tom osselton · « **Reply #144 on:** November 08, 2013, 05:22:46 PM »

Glad to hear Bob's doing good!

Skyrocket · « **Reply #145 on:** November 21, 2013, 02:28:07 PM »

hello! a little video on my latest finds ,regards chris

Stilldrillin · « **Reply #146 on:** November 21, 2013, 02:58:09 PM »

Nice haul Chris!

Nicely shown too.

David D

Skyrocket · « **Reply #147 on:** November 25, 2013, 04:11:58 PM »

thanks David, I don't have the willpower to walk past a box of rust lol

micktoon · « **Reply #148 on:** November 25, 2013, 07:03:06 PM »

Nice find on the box of drills Skyrocket, I went to the bootsale for the first time in a while with John Doubleboost , John came back emptyhanded but I got a couple of things.
A Martindale Voltage tester, looks good quality and condition, it indicates what voltage range , if DC or AC and polarity for £2 and an angle drive gadget for a drill , seems like a good bit of kit , it swivels to all angles and is well made so for £3 it would have been rude not to have bought it

This is the angle gadget in a few positions.

Cheers Mick

Meldonmech · « **Reply #149 on:** November 26, 2013, 11:03:56 AM »

Hi Mick
Two nice bits of kit you have there, a nice rugged tester with plenty of insulation, and that mysterious angle drive, which I have never seen before, could be very useful. Makes my poor old 90 degree drive look very basic.

Good Finds Cheers David

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