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Post by mudbox » Mon Feb 19, 2018 1:21 pm

Finally got to get out there and do some digging. It was still 34* when I got there and a bunch of the vendors decided it wasn't worth showing up. Still, a few smalls followed me home.

Billings Vitalloy 1028S in heavy cosmoline
PROTO WF-34 extension Not wartime, but military contract for sure.
TRUTH 1/2" drive 1/2" socket
SnapOn 3/8" drive deep 3/4" socket G dated.

Hopefully it'll be warmer here next week!

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Re: 2018 flea

Post by Rustman » Sun Feb 25, 2018 8:07 pm

Jason,

I'm envious. Since the weather has turned on the East Coast I'm sure the market is open. But I'm currently traveling overseas for work. I spent all winter reading in this forum so I'll be better equipped beginning this weekend. In the meantime yesterday I picked up these where I'm currently at. Paid about $65 USD. Over the course of three different vendors. The trench art is on a 1944 40mm Mk2 shell and is engraved for Mostar.
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Re: 2018 flea

Post by Wingnutt » Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:56 am

mudbox wrote:
Mon Feb 19, 2018 1:21 pm
Billings Vitalloy 1028S in heavy cosmoline
PROTO WF-34 extension Not wartime, but military contract for sure.
TRUTH 1/2" drive 1/2" socket
I missed this thread on the list somehow...

It must be 28S month - I just found a Barcalo and a BHM MQ last weekend. :)

If we all keep finding one or two TRUTH pieces at a time, I am sure we can put a full set together in about ten or fifteen years. Maybe. :lol:

As for the PROTO WF-34, you saw my comments offboard, but I will repeat them here for the whole G board...

The whole concept of PROTO WF is perplexing and intriguing. If it was a military contract, it seems to be confined to 1/2- and 3/8-inch drive ratchets and extensions (unlike the Plomb WF series, which also included midget sockets, DOE, DBE, line, and flare wrenches), and, it would have a very anachronistic model number name, since there was no Wright Field, and more importantly, no US Army Air Corps belonging to the US Army Air Forces in 1949. It was known as Area B on the US Air Force Wright-Patterson Air Force Base by then. Sure, it could've been a pique of nostalgia or commemoration on their part, or Plomb's part, but I am still holding out the possibility of it being a commercial line, and a more practical circumstance of re-using some dies, forcing them to re-use the moniker, which neither the defunct US Army Air Forces or the new US Air Force owned. For example, most of the PROTO WF-21 (3/8-inch drive) ratchets I have seen are cranks attached to Ma Bell machines.
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Re: 2018 flea

Post by mudbox » Sat Mar 31, 2018 5:49 am

It was cold (31*) this morning when I went to the small flea by the house. Ice on everything. I knew there wouldn't be a good turnout, but I haven't been to the flea in weeks.
As I suspected, there weren't many vendors. As I'm headed down the last row, I look over at a table and there it is... Never seen alone in the wild... A near perfect top tray for the 41-B-1840 box! And the box is nowhere to be seen.
Needless to say, but the tray did in fact follow me home.
Single oiler hole and round handle makes this perfect for a Hamilton or McAleer made box.

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Re: 2018 flea

Post by mudbox » Sat Mar 31, 2018 6:05 am

Wingnutt wrote:
Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:56 am
If we all keep finding one or two TRUTH pieces at a time, I am sure we can put a full set together in about ten or fifteen years. Maybe. :lol:
I've got a handful and I would say that I'm most of the way there to a set of sockets. For drive tools, I know I have the speeder, flex head, and short extension.

Needless to say, I'm accepting donations... :lol:

Sockets I have are 7/16, 1/2, 9/16, 5/8, 11/16, 3/4, 13/16, 7/8, 15/16, 1", 1-1/16.

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Re: 2018 flea

Post by gpw_42 » Sat Mar 31, 2018 8:51 am

mudbox wrote:
Sat Mar 31, 2018 5:49 am
A near perfect top tray for the 41-B-1840 box! And the box is nowhere to be seen.
Needless to say, but the tray did in fact follow me home.
Single oiler hole and round handle makes this perfect for a Hamilton or McAleer made box.

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Jason,

Nice score, and in EXCELLENT shape!

I got to the flea around 9:30, and there were still numerous vendors setting up. Everybody who was there was grumbling about the cold (47*) and the slow day. Interesting that you were home with a "well done" day already....

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Re: 2018 flea

Post by pjones » Sat Mar 31, 2018 9:16 am

Jason,
I thought I sent you a Truth DLB. Or is it still here?

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Re: 2018 flea

Post by frenchman » Sat Mar 31, 2018 3:35 pm

hi jason
i sended you a pm checked out
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Re: 2018 flea

Post by mudbox » Sat Mar 31, 2018 4:12 pm

gpw_42 wrote:
Sat Mar 31, 2018 8:51 am
Nice score, and in EXCELLENT shape!
Thanks Steve! I was super happy to have found it!
pjones wrote:
Sat Mar 31, 2018 9:16 am
I thought I sent you a Truth DLB. Or is it still here?
Yes, I have it. Looks like I forgot to add that into my current inventory of TRUTH tools. :D
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i sended you a pm checked out
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Hi frenchman! I knew you would be all over that tray like bees to honey. :wink:
I immediately had you in mind when I found it. I'll respond to your PM in a few minutes.

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Re: 2018 flea

Post by mudbox » Tue Apr 10, 2018 11:19 am

A couple of pickups from this weekend's flea.
Stanley bevel
Craftsman (H) ratchet and 1-1/16" socket
Champion DeArment water pump pliers with the '33 Canada patent date.
Oh, and a '51 dated W/|\D fuel can in very nice and useable condition.

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Re: 2018 flea

Post by USAFpj » Tue Apr 10, 2018 11:32 am

Yes! Gotta live vicariously through Jason until I get home next week. :P

Love that can- my flea market buddy has to remind me that we have enough cans for the time being.

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Re: 2018 flea

Post by Silly's MB » Tue Apr 10, 2018 11:56 am

USAFpj wrote:
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Love that can- my flea market buddy has to remind me that we have enough cans for the time being.
I have enough cans but they still keep coming :roll:
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Re: 2018 flea

Post by mudbox » Tue Apr 10, 2018 12:10 pm

:lol: :lol:
Yeah, I too have enough cans. BUT, a nice useable can for $7 shouldn't be left behind! I'm putting this one back into service.
Gotta store them up for the impending Zombie Apocalypse, right?!?! :lol:

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Re: 2018 flea

Post by gpw_42 » Tue Apr 10, 2018 8:08 pm

Zombie Apocalypse? Maybe....but hurricane season is DEFINITELY coming soon :) Nice score on the serviceable can, and especially at that price. No complaints over the CM (H) items, either! I'd love to get my hands on a Husky 1-1/16" socket, so I'm a little jealous of that one.

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Re: 2018 flea

Post by d42jeep » Tue Apr 10, 2018 8:34 pm

mudbox wrote:
Tue Apr 10, 2018 11:19 am
A couple of pickups from this weekend's flea.
Stanley bevel
Craftsman (H) ratchet and 1-1/16" socket
Champion DeArment water pump pliers with the '33 Canada patent date.
Oh, and a '51 dated W/|\D fuel can in very nice and useable condition.

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