Blackhawk 1" drive sockets and wrenches price

[WickedMainer]

Need an opinion before I spend to much. I have been slowly getting into site work and as the equipment gets bigger I will start needing the larger tools more and more.

Does this sound reasonable? I have the option to buy a Blackhawk 1" drive set wright 3/4" drive set, Blackhawk wrenches 1-5/16 to 2-3/4" (they have an industrial finish with the open end looking like a Bonney or herbrand wrench) diesel compression tester kit for 300-400. They are in excellent condition nothing is missing.socket sets have breaker bars ratchets extensions etc. I'm hoping my randoms I sell will cover about half this. I will eat up 2 hours each way driving but am making a detour to pick up 4 excellent blackhawk(new Britain) tool boards for $50

 

[1badbird]

300-400 for all that seems like a deal to me. Big sockets and wrenches aren't cheap

 

[WickedMainer]

That's what I was thinking. new prices are crazyyy, but not many comps. There's a guy in the area selling 4 job boxes full of similar us made wrenches, 3/4 and 1" drive sets for around $2500 for over a year and hasn't sold them.

 

[B_Bimmer]

If you need stuff that big it sounds like as good a deal as any.

 

[WickedMainer]

The 1" drive set is overkill for me. I will prob end up selling it in a few months so I can kick myself 10 years from now

 

[carcajou]

Its a steal at $400 bucks. Go get them.

 

[WickedMainer]

Thanks! I will try to get a picture when I get them.

 

[Derek420]

No brainer I'd kill for that deal YOU **** so bad right now damn you guys finding all these straight up STEALS.....

 

[southalabama]

I'm slowly acquiring a 3/4" set. If I didn't have much in them I'd keep the 1" just cause.

The only thing I can figure is that big tools and iron worker tools sometimes go cheap used because of the cyclical nature of the work. Boom and bust in the construction and oil fields. I've got relatives that work industrial construction. When things going good they working 16 hour days 6-7 days a week and are rolling in money. Then they get laid off and start selling stuff to pay bills.

 

[WickedMainer]

I feel like there are much fewer individuals needing the bigger sets and I can't picture many businesses shopping Craigslist or eBay for used tools. I will only need them once and a while so can't spend big. However, It will be when I'm already irritated and losing time/money , so last thing I need to deal with is a cheap tool. A civic broke my hf 3/4 breaker bar one of the very few time using it, on a Sunday evening. Old proto 1/2 .ratchet no less,with a bar, bent the handle but still worked great. Still pisses me off I had to sacrifice it.

I ended up with a $1000+ greenlee hydraulic impact gun, that linesmen use, that linesmen use. No bidders at even $99 on eBay so I get wary on industrial tools.

 

[WickedMainer]

I was actually scanning for Blackhawk stands jacks and portapower cart and stumbled upon them. I didn't plan to try to haggle price. I have difficulty offering low to someone retiring and having to sell the tools that made them a living for so long. I don't have a problem with anyone else doing it, well, maybe except for those guys that say cash or cash in my pocket every other sentence on a listing that says cash only to try to convince you to go lower. Thought people knew those hgtv and history channel "reality" shows are staged?

 

[WickedMainer]

Trip took longer than expected. Few surprises

Some extra sockets including a bunch of snap on loxocket sockets and l72 ratchet, all 1950 date code. Sk ratchet with handle sheared in half. Sets are mostly complete few missing or swapped

Bosch 3/4" corded impact and then the 1" and 1/2" right angle Chicago pneumatics. They both are labeled New York. The right angle half inch is a power vane model if that helps identify vintage. Hate to throw these around all day

The diesel compression tester is a Bacharach motorlite with 6 adaptors in original cloth and instructions. Not much info about this online

And then there is the mitoloy metric komatsu set made in Japan. Can't find anything on it

 

[WickedMainer]

Oh and forgot, went and picked up those 4 Blackhawk boards about 20 min further away. Best $50 spent

 

[carcajou]

Awesome deal for you. If you decide to part with the Komastu set let me know. I have a komatsu D85e-18 dozer that is metric. Be cool to have.

 

[WickedMainer]

Awesome deal for you. If you decide to part with the Komastu set let me know. I have a komatsu D85e-18 dozer that is metric. Be cool to have.

If I decide to sell it you will be the first to know!

I did start a thread in the vintage tool section about it to see if there are others that have a set. Be interesting to know what the set was specifically for. The 20mm socket built into the back of the ratchet is interesting. The 3/4" drive set also has some mitoloy tools mixed in as extras.

Some reason the tool im drawn to the most and I think is the coolest is that CP right angle impact. the patent date is 1947 or 49. I haven't seen one similar and I haven't seen many 1/2 drive power vane stamped models. It works great, weighs a ton, and devours cfms.

 

[WickedMainer]

I don't understand why new Britain bothered labeling the 1" driveset blackhawk. They literally attached labels over nbm co USA. I thought the sockets labeled this were replacements but one of the labels came off a socket and the ratchet while moving them.