As you improve or replace tools, what happens with the replaced tools?

[-Brent-]

I've had a crappy morning so to get my mind off things I've been going through a mental shop-project list. Then I came here... And then I bought some Armstrong 88T ratchets I've been eyeing. hahaha.

This made me think about the tools they're replacing. I can move the 1/4 and 3/8 Cman equivalents to the road bag in my truck or off road rig. This bag, too, has improved over the years as more of a matter of relegation. The stuff that was moved out of the bag was given away or sold for cheap.

Which leads me to my next question: Do you take this approach with your road bag or junkyard bag, too? I've seen the tools in those bags improve, too.

I've got a buddy that just piles up his tools. There's old cheapo tools that have sat in the drawer for years. It's unlikely he'll ever use them because he continually improving his stuff. He could gain a bunch of space just by moving those old tools along. Instead he "suffers" through not being able to close a few drawers.

Anyway, I'd love to hear your take. What do you do?

 

[vekster]

All my main tools and good tools are in the attached garage.
if they get upgraded or replaced then the first place is to my kids workbench and toolbox in the basement (have 3 kids that seem to love getting my hand-me-down tools.
if not needed there or already have similar tool there then they go to the barn that still has a dirt floor so everything gets rusty and they tend to pile up in there as a final resting place.
I have found this handy however because it saves me the walk from the garage to the barn, or from the basement to the garage if i need a tool.

 

[canuckian]

Mine either go to the "loaner" tool box or are given away.

 

[TheLS1Lover]

I sell all of my old stuff on eBay or Craigslist.

 

[Pumpman1968]

I take the leftovers or whatever is displaced from the toolbox and drop them on ebay for cheap......let someone who needs them put them back to work.

 

[frugalscotty]

Loaners, hand-me-downs, and church rummage sales.

I haven't sold on ebay but might consider it if I had something worth the time/trouble to sell.

 

[n8n]

Most goes to the 'kids' at my friend's shop, but a lot is kept. I just bought a mostly-complete set of combo wrenches because I was missing 9, 10, and 11 - the leftovers ended up in my little toolbox of bicycle tools to replace the yard sale stuff that was in there before. I've got a really small box of 'stuff I'll never use' - but it's pretty small.

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[PugetDude]

Sell them on eBay, using keywork spamming?


This ratchet will snap on to your snap-on sockets if you do it wright. The Process is plvmb simple.
It was used by aSKilled craftsman to build proto types.

 

[n8n]

Funny, but...

 

[-Brent-]

Funny, but...

I actually looked up the topic but couldn't find anything. I used a few different keywords, too. Sorry, n8n.

 

[thebeekeeper1]

They accumulate, of course.

 

[Deskmechanic]

I give them to younger co-workers who show an interest. I work in an office and there are a few guys that are interested but don't have the tools/space/skills to work on things.

 

[n8n]

I actually looked up the topic but couldn't find anything. I used a few different keywords, too. Sorry, n8n.

nah, it really was funny, but there was a thread going yesterday about this that got a couple people kind of worked up.

 

[paranoid56]

i normally donate them to kids in the neighborhood that seem to like working on things.

 

[ffjosh]

Goodwill

or

Throw them in a plastic container.

When it gets full throw $20 on it.

 

[AndrewV]

I just put them in my hf cart, and if we get a tire tech in, with no tools, he gets them cheap.
And if im broke, i trade them in on new tools.

 

[zakmartin]

Lately, I've been donating my older, though still perfectly useful, tools to a charity that teaches inner city kids how to build bikes (seriously). They send me a receipt each year and I use it as a tax deduction.

 

[-Brent-]

Lately, I've been donating my older, though still perfectly useful, tools to a charity that teaches inner city kids how to build bikes (seriously). They send me a receipt each year and I use it as a tax deduction.

I like this one! I wonder if we have anything like that, locally?

 

[zakmartin]

I like this one! I wonder if we have anything like that, locally?

They're pretty close to where I live, so it makes it easy to do. I like that they give you a decent value on your used tools. I've also donated four bikes over the years and a whole bunch of bike parts.

Bike Works

 

[crewchief888]

as i "upgraded' tools over the years, the old stuff that was replaced got moved home for garage use.

i gave a bunch of hand tools, mostly USA CM, and a set of wards powrkraft boxes to a needy friend.

garage hand tool "collection" rivals what a lot of people have for "working" tools.

i will say this,
it didnt happen overnight, i started wrenching over 30 years ago....

between needing my tools at work, having a few things at home, some more in my truck box, and more at the race shop, it's an extensive "collection"

i'm in the tool user (and abuser) category, not a collector of shiny new chrome.

 

[K-Dog]

Give them away or move them to the "house tool box"

 

[Grimly]

The recent upgrading and clear-out of my toolset has seen a load of older good quality AF stuff now being relegated to a grey box that I'll rarely open. With the exception of one old banger, all my transport is metric now, so the AF tools were simply taking up space in the main box.
They're too good to part with though, and I've no doubt that as soon as I did, I'd need something that I'd just got rid of.
Even the junky cheapy **** I bought on a few occasions when I was stuck for something here and there now has a role as road toolkits on my m'cycles or in the car/van/whatever.
Tools are like cameras - I never part with them, really.

 

[boro_boy70]

Mine are given to my 9 year old son. He's probably the only kid in his school with a tool box taller than he is.

 

[greasemonkey44]

Some get thrown in the bottom drawer at work to be ground and cut up
Some go home to my house, some my parents house, some to the garage
There are tools and boxes everywhere....

 

[shockwave]

In my truck for my tool bag for side work since I don't have to load up my tools from my box or cart