Compared to what? These are good deals on brand new quality Proto ratchets.
Take for example J5450XLBL it is going for ~76 on amazon/ebay/sears and is 54 from the link above.
Oh if you have had someone from IT say so i would believe him.
Here is the hard drive that i run in my pc's.
1TB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185
I wouldn't recommend getting under a 1tb unless you are strapped for cash, as its really only a 15-20 dollar...
How do you know the hard drive is no operable? I would try getting an OS and doing a fresh install before I went out and bought a hard drive and an OS.
Could we see a pic of the entire crane I cant tell but you might have them mounted on the outside instead of the inside witch wouldn't give you enough height.
I have a good amount of vintage tools and some of them have a good amount of rust on them, i know that the generally accepted thing to do would be to wire wheel them but i was thinking the other day about throwing them in the sand blast that is currently loaded with Urea plastic media.
Its soft...