I also have a minor obsession with Pexto... If I'm at swap meets, garage sales, if it says Pexto on it I at least pick it up and say hello. Sometimes the item wants to come home with me. I got a great deal on this 30" stomp shear, which is my only big thing:
The stomp shear needed quite a bit of fettling, it was missing one of the down bars and one spring is the wrong length. They are pretty adjustable, mine has a good blade even though it came out of a school and was probably not treated super well. Once adjusted and tuned up I can snip soda can stock like paper all along the blade without folding it over, or anything thicker up to 18 gauge though I have my limit as 20. I tried not to set it up so close as to cut paper perfectly, my limited experience thinks the blade is too tight if I do.
But I have also picked up quite a few snips, a crescent wrench, and a bunch of other stuff that doesn't spring to mind right now, coffee hasn't soaked in yet. Snips are fun to restore, takes 30 minutes and they are wonderful clanky scissors again.
I saw a little benchtop forge looking thing that said Pexto, didn't get it, come to find out it was (I think) a soldering iron heater. Darn, shoulda grabbed it.
