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    Whats killing the traveling tool vendor business

    I think buying on time is just the way most buy any more. Two things I have thought about. Most conversations about buying something always start with how much a month can you afford. Vehicles, housing, cell plans, furniture and the list goes on. On the other end of that, I do not offer that...
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    Whats killing the traveling tool vendor business

    Do rules need to be posted? I think a lot of establishments are tired of entitled customers. As a business owner I have fired plenty of them.
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    Whats killing the traveling tool vendor business

    I think many businesses have just quit dealing with the worst 10% that require so much of their time . It takes so much to deal so few that it just is not worth it. Many may still deal with them, but it is now as time allows. I have been on my SO truck when people randomly stop. Most are just...
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    Whats killing the traveling tool vendor business

    That is a great idea, isn't it. They did that hundreds of years ago. Not sure if you are agreeing with me, or not. But hasn't SO taken that very same approach and expanded it, refined it, and doing very well with it. Your guys put out catalogs to stores that might want to carry their line up...
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    Whats killing the traveling tool vendor business

    This thread isn't like most of the SO threads. You can say what you want, but they are all chasing SO when it comes to tools. Everything is compared to them. Even on the secondary market SO sells for way more than others. I would say any billion dollar business that is as old as them have...
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    Tools that you thought were stupid to buy and now can’t live without.

    Not really a tool, but a feature that comes on them. Years ago when cordless tools started coming with a light that lit with the trigger, to shine on the work being done. I thought that was the biggest battery drain, and most worthless gimmick I had ever seen. Now I miss them when they do not...
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    CoThG's Toolbox question thread

    My dealer just told me that corporate is getting serious about this. They are and do go after delinquent accounts. So much so that they are now dinging the selling dealer, when a deal falls through. He said there was just to many dealers selling toolboxes in the past, through corporate credit...
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    Leaf Vac/Mulcher

    I have a billy goat brand. I bought it at an auction several years ago. It was a spring time auction, but they put a 48 hour warranty on it. Started right up when I got home. Have to say it is a pain in the but to walk around, most of the year. But the few weeks you use it, it is such a good...
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    Enlarge 5,000 gallon water tank plumbing?

    Vacuum could be you answer, if you could seal the top some how. I am thinking there would be a fine line how much you could put to it, depending on tank ability. I have used a cooling system airlift type tool to change hoses and such, with very minimal antifreeze loss. You would have to have...
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    2013 Kia Sorento master cylinder test plugs

    O rielly auto parts listing https://www.oreillyauto.com/detail/c/select/brakes/brake-hydraulics/brake-master-cylinder/3bff094046ed/brakebest-select-brake-master-cylinder-new/ohh0/nmc90118/v/a/119700/automotive-suv-2013-kia-sorento?q=brake+master+cylinder&pos=0 Says both ports are m12x1. One is...
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    Why do I only have bad luck: broken rental excavator

    Was in the rental business many years ago. While this ***** for you, it likely wasn't what the rental company had planned for their guy to do all day. Breakdowns happen. Back then equipment like this had hour meters, and that is sort of how we billed for them. Not saying it could sit a month on...
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    Mystery (to me) pliers

    Post five nailed it. Bands are not shown, but a round somewhere close to those pliers. https://www.mactools.com/products/prc144
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    Need help determining value of machines and tools

    Most of what you listed above sells for less than $100 each, at the weekly auction I go to. As others have mentioned you can go down the road of doing it yourself, but it is a lot of work. Even a garage sale only get rid of the better stuff, and leaves you to deal with what is left. An auction...
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    Snap-On Sockets

    I have mostly SO. I am not sure I have ever had peeling chrome, or many other issues that some here have had. I can say that more than once, I have come across a fastener that has been rusted, flattened, or just plain messed up, that a SO will not fit. Many others go right on. Not going to get...
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    Adding More Ventilation with Gas Appliances

    How new are the a[appliances? Are they power vented? New appliances are sort of split. They use outside air for combustion. It ***** from outside and blows back outside. Any kind of negative pressure would be the conditioned air flow. Shouldn't be hard to seal that up from garage vapors.
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    Super thin lug nut socket

    I have the snap on ones. Have not found a wheel that they wouldn't work on I think I bought the first ones individual sizes, but have bought flip sockets since at an auction.
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    CoThG's Toolbox question thread

    In my experience mine have done a credit check.. I guess not sure how far they actually take the information. You fill out the application. My guess is they may send it through SO corporate. I think many use it just for the information it sort of gives a person. How long does one work at...
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    CoThG's Toolbox question thread

    Snap On is the only one that stops. I pay $75 a week. I buy till he sort of stops me at that amount. He never has asked for more. I have been as high as several thousand, and I have been paid off. I try to keep a balance, because he is the only one that stops, and I want to make it worth his...
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    Metal fab/Auto Body metal guys....where can I get this tool?

    I do not think those are an auto body tool. Maybe a blacksmith tool. You could likely modify a lisle exhaust hanger removal tool https://www.lislecorp.com/specialty-tools/exhaust-removal-pliers
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    Wanted to build a small tool kit for around the house. Subconsciously displayed an aversion to brand loyalty.

    I have sort of done this as presents for my kids. Three kids and they each have bought a home, the last three summers. Already have them wrapped, so no pictures. Channellock needle nose, dykes, and slip groove water pump pliers. Rigid pipe wrench, dewalt 1/4 drive set, three different sizes...
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