DieselSaves
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We have an annual community auction tomorrow, a benifit for our local volunteer fire department. It going to be the 48th eddition. It's been billed as a country fair now for the last decade or so.
We took our auction eve tour of the items to go for bid earlier today. The stuff is brought in by hundreds of people cleaning out their garages and everything under the sun shows up, enought to cover a soccer field in rows of junk. Two boxes made my list of watch items, a box of rusty tools that turned out to be all Duro Chrome, SK, and SO that had been in rusty water at some point. I'm hoping those boxes go cheap because of the looks of them.The other items I saw in a decent Kennedy box set were two old SO ratchets, one a F71 and the other a long handled ratchet marked with an "E" date code.
What is a long SO war era ratchet worth in poor condition? I'll have to buy the entire lot in each case to get what I want. I hope to use most of the tools if I get them, not resell them, so cheap is a must. If I don't get the bid I could try to buy just the ratchets from the high bidder.
We took our auction eve tour of the items to go for bid earlier today. The stuff is brought in by hundreds of people cleaning out their garages and everything under the sun shows up, enought to cover a soccer field in rows of junk. Two boxes made my list of watch items, a box of rusty tools that turned out to be all Duro Chrome, SK, and SO that had been in rusty water at some point. I'm hoping those boxes go cheap because of the looks of them.The other items I saw in a decent Kennedy box set were two old SO ratchets, one a F71 and the other a long handled ratchet marked with an "E" date code.
What is a long SO war era ratchet worth in poor condition? I'll have to buy the entire lot in each case to get what I want. I hope to use most of the tools if I get them, not resell them, so cheap is a must. If I don't get the bid I could try to buy just the ratchets from the high bidder.
