If anybody remembers the thread about the 60' bandsaw, I just got back from the auction where it was mentioned. There was indeed no 60' bandsaw at the auction. There WAS a 14' Buffalo, a lathe of undetermined manufacture (it was battleship grey), and several other power tools, mostly craftsman. I didn't get any of them.
I *did* however, get a few things. I spent 22.50 on a box containing miscellaneous jars full of miscellaneous fasteners, AND two rollup pouches, one containing about eight old, well-used but cared-for chisels, a few of them with wooden handles that looked OLD. The other pouch had various screwdrives, one of them an old push-type Yankee, with all the pieces still in the head. They actually auctioned off the choice of about ten boxes, all filled with miscellaneous junk, among them that box. I got high bid, reached out and grabbed it, and all around me, in unison, I heard the word "damn!". I guess a few others had checked out that particular box too. The auctioneer asks if I want any more, I said no, and then he asks what was it about that box? I unfold the pouch with the chisels and he directs a few choice words at the helper.
30 bucks for a Sargent 409 plane, 25 bucks each for a Stanley #7 and a Stanley Bailey K6. $17.50 for two stanley block planes, one looks old, the other fairly new. I've been trying to date the Stanleys. So far, at this website:I now have some work to do, since it was raining and drizzling the whole time, and every plane is now rusted. There was no getting around it. When they're holding the auction in the drizzlin rain, outside, just letting everything get wet, you end up with wet tools. If I remember right, steel wool and WD40 will take care of it. Anybody got any other suggestions? I mean besides "Take 'em apart and wipe 'em off!" I already did that.
Dan