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Deafautotech

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i went to one guy who did bought the price for lot of tools from guy who just passed away last year. he decided to sell each of tools so he can make profits.. i was with my friend (he know that guy as his friend) i found 115-TM for 35 dollars as set. i bought it and paid 105 dollars of tools and i did math for all tools worth of today market and it is 540 dollars.

I bought: 35 dollars for 115-Tm set, 10 dollars for mac tools extractor 10SE set, 3.00 for 1 1/4 1/2dr impact socket, 1.50 dollar for 8pt 7/16 1/2dr impact socket (cornwell), 2.00 dollars for MH4.5 hex driver 9/64, 5 dollars for Proto 7/8 1/2dr impact deep socket, 4 dollars for snap on 15/16 1/2dr impact socket, 2 dollars for 6mm snap on hex driver, 3 dollars for craftsman 1/2 1/2dr deep socket(12pts), 5 dollars for snap on FU80A, 1 dollars for snap on FX1, 2 dollars for snap on 5.5mm deep socket, 3 dollars for snap on 9/16 3/8dr impact deep socket, 5 dollars for 5/8 3/8dr impact socket, 4 dollars for snap on impact extension (PS-6) . i paid him a 105 dollars cash... i am walking smile.. :thumbup::bounce:

i am thinking about go back there again next time or i can ask my friend to see if that guy would be there for weekend as i can come over there to buy what i need...

sorry to not post the pictures as i have no time...
 
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Fedwrench said:
Karma I guess.
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"Karma"?! I don't see how it applies!

Personally, I like to think that someone (preferably a relative) will use my tools after I'm gone in the same way I do my grandfather's.

And I have bought tools from the 30s that were almost certainly once owned by someone who is now dead. Quite possibly several former owners!
 
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lbgradwell said:
"Karma"?! I don't see how it applies!

Personally, I like to think that someone (preferably a relative) will use my tools after I'm gone in the same way I do my grandfather's.

And I have bought tools from the 30s that were almost certainly once owned by someone who is now dead. Quite possibly several former owners!
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i agree.....i recently bought a snappy breaker bar from the 20's and my first thought's were about the guy who bought it new and how proud he must have been and imagined that tool being used to fix an old model t! :thumbup:
 
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I understand that old tools come with history. I also understand that everyone's terminal. I think it's great when tools are passed down to suceeding generations. I just don't like organized estate sales or business sales where the owner died on the premises and things are being quickly disposed of. I realize that there are financial needs when a person dies, I just don't like someone's lifetime collection of favorite tools vaporizing. If the tools go to the right people that will care for them as well as the previous owner, that's a great thing. I guess it's the benefiting from someone's death angle that bothers me.
 
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Fedwrench said:
I understand that old tools come with history. I also understand that everyone's terminal. I think it's great when tools are passed down to suceeding generations. I just don't like organized estate sales or business sales where the owner died on the premises and things are being quickly disposed of. I realize that there are financial needs when a person dies, I just don't like someone's lifetime collection of favorite tools vaporizing. If the tools go to the right people that will care for them as well as the previous owner, that's a great thing. I guess it's the benefiting from someone's death angle that bothers me.
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i am understand your statement. i like to use the tools that mechanic used for make the living and make a history with it. the someone's death don't bother me if the price for tools are cheaper... i would like keep my tools together for generation and generations instead spead it over... i would don't like if one of my child sell it for need the money for stupid thing...

i was started to wrenching at 15 years old (work in my parent's garage to do friends's works) so i am would keep wrenching for long time like 40 or 50 years... right now i am 21 years old...
 
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Yeah, like, it really *shouldn't* matter to me, I mean, they're just used tools. But when I use my grandpas hammer, I remember getting it when I was a kid and reconnnect with that feeling. Hand me down tools are too cool, I want to pass them on to my kids.

It's just kinda sad when someone passes and his kids don't appreciate the tools and just sell them to strangers.

I dunnno it shouldn't make any difference but I'd always look at them funny if I knew the background.

I'd still buy em tho. I'm not passing up a deal!!! :thumbup:


Fedwrench said:
I understand that old tools come with history. I also understand that everyone's terminal. I think it's great when tools are passed down to suceeding generations. I just don't like organized estate sales or business sales where the owner died on the premises and things are being quickly disposed of. I realize that there are financial needs when a person dies, I just don't like someone's lifetime collection of favorite tools vaporizing. If the tools go to the right people that will care for them as well as the previous owner, that's a great thing. I guess it's the benefiting from someone's death angle that bothers me.
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Fedwrench said:
Great deal but, I don't like buying dead people's tools. Karma I guess.
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I don't like that either...lots of weird shiat can happen....unless they are willed to you then i would stay away.

Actually I should clarify that....it's only bad if they used them to make a living..if they just had em in their closet or for occasional use then it doesn't matter as they had no emotional connection with them.
 
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Oh... all this Karma ****...


I would be pissed if my wife kept all my tools after I died... she needs to make sure that they get into the hands of people who will actually USE them. First, I'd hope that they go to members of my family... but then I'd hope that she'd sell them off. Keeping my old tools is not going to bring me back and it's not going to help anyone else. Tools are made for using - not keeping.
 
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