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I'm a little shocked the verdict seems so unanimous, since there's effectively no difference between this and expecting a warranty replacement on a second-hand tool; which seems to be a pervasive practice here. :dunno:

Yes, the Loughborough store. A manager at the one in Maplewood was pretty rude to me once, so I've been avoiding that one. Which store are you using? Something they all seem to have in common is a screwed up inventory system, the last two or three times I've gone I had to have a manager adjust...

I stopped by to glance at these a couple of times, but for a variety of reasons decided they weren't the right storage solution for my main tools. Then I started thinking about how they might be handy for sorting the tons of mismatched extras I keep around in case I need to make up a specialty...

New Year bump, just in case someone with a good suggestion missed this the first go 'round.

I've gotta say, I'm just surprised that people are surprised! When he first started posting here I was just annoyed by his bad grammar and inability to spell "flea market" but once it was clear that the majority of his posts were about flipping, "what's it worth?," threads, ridiculous...

I don't think anything was cut off, the larger ones (that's the biggest one I've seen) must have had a different mounting arrangement than the table-top versions. Most seem to have been black. Don't paint the slide, if that's what you are asking. $5 is a fair price, the little ones are worth...

I can't believe no one picked this low-hanging fruit. You're reading the date wrong, which isn't uncommon because the castings are generally pretty rough. I usually think of them as "Colton vises" because George A. Colton is the patent holder, but most of them that I've seen are marked with...

Well, that didn't last long. I was going to pick up a set for my brother, in the time it took me to go from the check availability page to the pay page every set in 50 miles was gone. Slickdeals is awful, I'm sure they'll be all over craigslist tonight for $28 a set.

Thanks! After the rebate it will be $75 off for a much-needed battery in my girlfriend's car and I used it as well to save abut $30 over the tooltopia price on a set of Stahlwille wrenches.

It's just about time for a new calendar, but it seems like pickings are slim if you want a tool-themed pin up calendar that actually has any tools in it. Wurth and Ridgid still make them but they are just bikini calendars, which can be had anywhere in infinite variety. The weird digital...

I was all set to pull the trigger on the Dynasty SD and contractor kit, but then it hit me with circa $400 in taxes. Ouch. When it was going to be close to a grand in savings I was willing to bite the bullet but at only about $300 less than Cyberweld it didn't seem worth bankrupting myself...

I have an app on my phone, but it's impractical to have it search for every tool I want, especially those unlikely to be seen on CL. It's definitely the same machine. Now I'll get to see it a couple times a week no doubt, since the odds of him selling it on craigslist at that price are...

Check this out, I spotted this listing on Friday and emailed about it because I actually need a sensitive press (what a novel reason to buy a tool!) No response from the seller, so I figured some other lucky guy beat me to it. Well, sort of. Sunday night and this ad is up: A $350 coating of...

I might be interested of you can break the manufacturers down for me.

Just imagine how many sets of miscellaneous Craftsman sockets will pop up on ebay with $900 BIN prices in the next few weeks.

Where in Illinois are you located?

At least one vintage Proto that I've looked at was made by Stack-On, perhaps the MACs were as well. There were surprisingly few manufacturers of older tool cabinets so there was quite a bit of badge engineering.

concealer404 asked me to explain how profiteering has an effect on the job market, so for that purpose, yes we were talking about securities, do try to keep up. You are the one who quoted me with your ******* in a twist telling me about my lifestyle and what flippers have done to make it...

My point was that capitalism is not as simple as "buy low, sell high" and that profiteering (on mortgage-backed securities) is what caused the financial collapse. Lookin4'67Galaxieconv implied that his oversimplified definition of capitalism somehow improves my quality of life, all of which is...

Actually, no, it isn't. Capitalism is a broad economic model that encompasses all sorts of buying and selling, more accurate words for what you describe are "profiteering" and "opportunism." If the lifestyle you are referring to is being underemployed because the job market ***** as a...