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1. What maybe found at a bargain sale of brushes.[8.10]S??????? ??????????
2. Remove some of the charge to produce a flashy effect.[7]
3. Make sense of French code.[8]??????E?
4. Settlement only modified by the company.[6]
5. Radio set-up necessary for trawlermen.[7]

1 sweeping reductions?

4 colony

3 Decipher

5. network?

any letters yer for clue 2?

Many thanks trevor, mamya and kilowatt.
No.2 is L???T??. Could be lighter?

or lighten?

Lighten looks lie another word for Lightening.
"Emit flashes of lightning; flash with lightning
- it thundered and lightened"

Lighten is correct, fits in. Thanks trevor.