Anyone ever find unused NOS tools?

[BDFan1981]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Skilsaw-6-1-2-super-duty-866-with-chrome-finish-/121189827502?

1980 Skilsaw Super Duty 866 with original box.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Skilsaw-Mod...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Now recently sold: this 1978 Skilsaw 559 7-1/4" circular saw, unopened box.

~Ben

 

[ecotec]

Absolutely. A local industrial tool store bought a **** load of SK way back in the 80’s? I was able to buy a bunch of it over the years. Most of it was slowly folded into my main tool box. I may have a couple sets still untouched.

I found one set unused. A set of 1/2” impacts. I found some empty boxes from the sets that I bought from the same store. I know I bought at least 3 sets of the deep 1/4” metric (they came in the little tray in the middle front. There were probably about 10 sets that I bought over the years.

All of the sets have the same logo on the metal box.

 

[ecotec]

I bought this at the closing of a hardware store. I do not know if it is considered NOS since they took something out of it. I have another set like it that someone took the 9/16” out of (also still in cellophane).

 

[ecotec]

You have to decide if this is considered NOS. It was obviously purchased... on sale for half off. I paid $10 for it, so I got it for 75% off.

 

[ecotec]

Another local industrial tool store, about 5 minutes away, had a locking Wright lucite tool display.

I bought a bunch of very old Wright socket sets In the red metal boxes and trays. The guy who sold them to me had to look around for the key, and he told me the cabinet had never been opened in all the time he had worked there. I cleared it out.

 

[dnschmidt]

Half of my house is full of new old stock tools. I just like tools. Some, maybe most, I've never used.

 

[GaryM909]

I picked these up at a used tool store about a month ago. They are new, never used 6 point Challenger by Proto.
They have already replaced the Craftsman sockets I had been using. I paid $10 Canadian.

 

[Packard V8]

At an estate sale recently, there were boxes on top of boxes of NOS tools. Seems a farmer retired, leased out his land, but the shop was on his home lot. He loved to go into the small town, have coffee with the other gomers, stop into the hardware store and the farm equipment dealer to BS. He always bought something while he was there, brought it home and stacked it in the corner.

By the time he passed, he had a tool store in his shop. Some of it was pro quality OTC, some just stuff, but a mind-boggling quantity.

jack vines