I knew that my drinking would pay off eventually.
Today I took a small stockpile of aluminum cans to the local recycling yard. There's a guy that works there who is always snapping up all the tools that come into the yard. Today, I finally talked him into letting some go.
He had filled a 5 gallon bucket with some recent 'junk' and told me that I was welcome to any/all of the stuff in the bucket. First thing I saw was the full rail of Snap On sockets (7/16 up to 1-1/8)! I dug in and tossed out all the china/Taiwan ****. I was left with 30 pounds of USA goodness.
They sell by weight, which is great, especially for what I ended up with! 30 pounds at $0.50 per pound would have been fine at $15, but I only had $9 cash on me... they took it!
I ended up with 21 pounds of aluminum cans (I've been saving them for a while) and got back $10.
Net cost to me for 30 pounds of hand tools... -$1.00
They paid me to take them!
Here's what I brought home.
The bucket of goods:
Snap-On rail of sockets, small extension and sliding T; SK 3/8" drive LONG extension, 1/2" drive New Britain LONG extension; a whole mess of Craftsman (U) [Plomb] including, ratchet, short and long extension and 11 sockets; a handful of SK sockets and a Blackhawk orphan.
Wrenches include Craftsman, Barcalo and Wards Master along with a HUGE 1" drive Armstrong impact socket.
Finally, a whole mess of mostly Craftsman sockets, various vintage from =V= to G and a few newer makes, all USA.
Sorry, I didn't get a picture of the aluminum cans...
