And continuing the dumb luck of the season, I had to drive up to Rutgers this
morning to pick up a side job (machining job) I'm doing for a researcher in the
department I used to work for.

I saw a sign. Garage sale. 

The next sign said Estate sale

I had to stop. I just had to. I didn't want to.

But it's a disease.

I tried to resist.

But stop I did.

It was `week n' of an estate sale, apparently the last. The realtor running it
wanted the rest of the stuff gone, and most of the good stuff went the first few
weeks. What remained at the end of the day was going to a dumpster.

If the good stuff was gone, I missed out.It could have been bad, but I was
pressed for time, and didn't want to go into the house. By the sales agent, the
guy was the type who would just buy another rather than look for something if he
couldn't find it right away. Other than the big stuff and a few likely holdouts,
he was letting it go for free. Books. Tools. furniture. There was a lot of stuff
without going past the garage, and apparently more in the house.

I walked away with a 2 cubic foot recycle container about half full. 120# (60
litres and 55Kg, Jeff) Plus some loose items and about a dozen books.


The items I glommed that are of interest here include some measuring tools-
small scales, gages, depth probes, and calipers- as well as scrapers, files,
some square socket tee wrenches, and an assortment of other items.

https://postimg.cc/dZQLxd9r

A couple tachometers were buried in the mess, as well.

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The large set of boxes in the middle is Clipper belt lacing. I already have a
tool for this, but there was one here, as well. For free.

https://postimg.cc/hJxzzKjz

But this wasn't it. Also of interest

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I have not catalogued these yet, and I think there are more still in the bin,
but this comprises about 40, most Starrett, B&S, and union. A missing scriber
here, a missing bow spring there, but most complete, with several having the
quick adjust nut, and at least one larger with the fine adjust.

There is more. Stones. A veritable pile of sharpening stones. These are the
wedge shape with rounded edges (I can't recall the proper name.) I grabbed five,
one in each grade that was there, but there were maybe another 25 in assorted
grits

https://postimg.cc/wyQ12FD9

I passed on the planes, as they were nothing special, though priced ok ($10 for
a later #5 jack plane in user condition doesn't grab me anymore, and I have no
need for another #102 block plane, for example), the remaining chisels were
nothing of interest, and the only interesting items were incomplete. The saw
vise was tempting, though. I almost bit on that.

The guy was a machinist, and I apparently missed the best of that stuff, as
well, but maybe 1/3 of the weight was lathe tooling of various types. Would've
loved to see the basement, but I had to go.




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