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Monthly Archives: June 2011

SK 1 lb Dead Blow Hammer

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

This is a 1 lb dead blow hammer with fiberglass handle. It is labeled SK, but it came out of NUPLA’s warehouse. US Made.

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Bones Lionberger

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Bones was an old customer of ours. He was an ex-professional wrestler turned junk man and a collector of pretty much everything. He would often come in the store dressed in red, white and blue overalls and talk to Harry about his latest find. In his house he had an entire room filled with blown [...]

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New Products Engineering Closeouts Gages, Squares and Rulers

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

For those of you not familiar with Products Engineering, they are a US manufacturer that primarily does a lot of private labeling. They used to make all of General’s US gauges and precision measuring equipment. I say “used to” because General moved most of their production overseas. They also manufacture for Mitutoyo. This closeout deal [...]

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New CS Osborne Stuff

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Exciting new stuff! My wife is a professional gardener and I’m always looking to buy more USA gardening tools to have around the store. All of the following items come from C.S. Osborne, a small US manufacturer that’s been around since 1826. Above is what CS Osborne refers to as an “Asparagus Knife”. It’s perfect [...]

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A good box is hard to find.

Monday, June 20, 2011

We get pallets of boxes of tools in every week, so when something shows up that’s packed in boxes like these we take notice. We are going to add a number of new items from CS Osborne, a small US tool manufacturer. They will be online tomorrow. But before I put them on I just [...]

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Klein / Vaco / USA Vise-Grip / Masterlock Small Lot Closeout

Friday, June 3, 2011

UPDATE: Posted some NOS Channellock today. UPDATE: Finally finished putting all the Klein on-line. The quantities on some of these are very low (1′s and 2′s). There are a few NOS chanellock pliers that I’ll put on tomorrow along with some USA Vise-grip and 2 Knipex pliers. UPDATE: Posted some of the USA Stamped Vise-Grip [...]

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Diamond Ford Wrench

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Sue, our bookkeeper, picked this one up the other day. Very smooth action. Check out these giant pictures. If you click on them, they get really big. UPDATE: Well, that was quick. This baby is going to California.

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