Things I had to take home with me from the swapmeet. Doesn't being at a swapmeet make you realize you have to buy at least one thing that is cool, but you don't need?

 Hell no I am not going to work on Carter carbs, but I couldn't pass on this tool set for 20 bucks.

 I've never heard of Marvel Mystery Oil Company making anything but oil... so this had to find a home in my garage for 10 bucks

Starett is high quality, and this is accurate to one thousandth of an inch. Perfect for 20 bucks

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Whitworth tool find at the annual Big 3 spring Swap Meet, at Qualcomm (still going to be there tomorrrow if you can make it)

 All of these are at R H Parkers Garage, and it's under a large long grey canopy, about 10 rows from the North side of the Qualcomm parking lot

 This set is unusually helpful in that it has both Whitworth and British Standard sizes marked

 The Dowidat set is a German company, and good tools, I have a set of metric combo wrenches from Dowidatt

but the big score waiting for someone is this Bluepoint tap and die set, it's Whitworth. Only tap set for Whitworth I've ever heard of, a mechanics necessity

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Cool Model T stuff found on Acesdeluxe.blogspot.com

http://acesdeluxe.blogspot.com/

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Best tool display in a garage? I think so

Found in the annual Hot Rod Delux Best of issue, 2011

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New England has a really cool used tool store, Liberty Tool in Liberty, Maine

found on http://www.acontinuouslean.com/

This store in Liberty Maine has been in business for the better part of the last decade, but with this well produced video, it ought to get more business now that more people know about it. May the business last and thrive!

the business is online as well as a walk in, and you can take a look at the website to buy from home if you (like so many of us) can't travel to Maine http://www.libertytoolco.com/tools.html . If you do drive through Maine and want to stop by, they are about 25 miles East of Augusta Maine, on Interstate 95, if you exit the I95 on route 3 http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Liberty,+ME+04949&ll=44.362642,-69.379349&spn=0.428067,1.054001&oe=UTF-8&hnear=Liberty,+Maine+04949&gl=us&t=h&z=11&vpsrc=6

They used to sell via ebay, but since the costs of ebay have risen, they are now just using their own website! Bravo!

Photos from http://www.libertytoolco.com/about.html

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