Car Boot 07-07-13

[Racers]

Hi Chaps

My haul from early this morning
Bevel Mortice gauge and square £2.50

Hand vice £1


They have a bit if a clean up with Brasso as they where all filthy, hopefully not to much!

Got back before it got too hot.

Pete

 

[Flynnwood]

I've been looking for three months for one of these. Happy with my purchase today ...

 

[Racers]

Hi Flinwood

My favourite size plane, can I ask how much?

Pete

 

[Flynnwood]

Hi Pete - I paid £14 for it. It's worth that to me and in pretty good condition.

This is after a wipe with white spirit.

All the best.

 

[Racers]

Hi Flinwood

I think you did well, its in good condition for the price.

Pete

 

[Mr_P]

Well done to you both.

I love my 5 1/2, your patience has def paid off as a few on ebay are charging £13 just for p+p and you got to examine yours first.

I've done a few and been quite disheartened by the slim pickings and prices. Anyone know a good one in Greater Manchester please message me.

 

[WoodMangler]

Here's mine from this weekend - I was being dragged round the local village car-boot, ignoring all the tat, when my eye fell on this lathe on a trailer behind a stall full of plants. Haggling was performed, various notes changed hands, and I carried it off. It's a 10-year old APTC 600M lathe, and it works perfectly It has a little superficial rust, but nothing that a bit of wire-wool and elbow grease won't fix.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

And how much?

 

[bugbear]

Hi Chaps

My haul from early this morning
Bevel Mortice gauge and square £2.50

Hmm. I suspect you know full well what that "mortise gauge" is, and what its from-a-dealer price would be!

Nice score.

BugBear

 

[WoodMangler]

And how much?

(If that was aimed at me) It was £65. I have no idea if that's too much or too little, but we were both happy with it.

 

[Richard T]

Pete - £2.50 for that trio (especially the gauge) is not so much a bargain, more like a rental fee.

 

[powertools]

In our village there is a lady who holds regular garage sales with all the proceeds going to on the MS Society. This is a cause close to our hearts so my wife grows plants and donates items from the house that we no longer need for the lady to sell.
The normal routine is that we get rid of stuff we don't need and then she goes to the sale and buys more stuff we don't need, she calls it decluttering.
Last weekend I was the delivery driver to take some more plants to top up the stock and noticed a very damp plain brown box with Stanley No.4 printed on it.
It had a post label to another address in the village on it and had been sent by Wills the tobacco company so I assume that the orignal owner had saved cigarette coupons for it.
Although the varnish is coming of the front handle and it has a lot of surface rust that seems quite new I don't think that it has ever been used and for the £3 asking price I was unable to refuse.

 

[Racers]

Hi BB/Richard T

I am a jammy git :lol:

I didn't even haggle with him, he did say you won't get tools like that these days, I had to agree.

Pete

 

[AndyT]

Why oh why do people go to the trouble of loading their old tools into boxes, packing them in the car, getting up at dawn to drive out to a field somewhere, only to give them away for less than the price of a sandwich?

 

[bugbear]

Why oh why do people go to the trouble of loading their old tools into boxes, packing them in the car, getting up at dawn to drive out to a field somewhere, only to give them away for less than the price of a sandwich?

I'm not complaining. In the last month I've acquired a Norton Waschita stone and a Belgian coticule, at a quid each.

The unlooked for bonus is that the cutting actions are such than Norton India Fine/Waschite/Coticule is a perfect succession.

BugBear

 

[powertools]

Why oh why do people go to the trouble of loading their old tools into boxes, packing them in the car, getting up at dawn to drive out to a field somewhere, only to give them away for less than the price of a sandwich?

Because the truth is to most people that is all they are worth.

 

[Richard T]

Alas not these though ....



I got them the week before last. He wanted £30 and he got it. Still a bargain of course but not your archetypal clueless bootsale vendor.

It occurs to me to ask myself, why would three different people with very different sized hands only use one of these each?

 

[Racers]

Nice cranked gouges Richard, not a bad price as well.

Pete

 

[WoodMangler]

My apologies folks - when I posted my lathe pic, I hadn't noticed that this thread is actually in the forum 'Hand tools'.