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Recent Tool Freebies

Neura

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well really tools and tool storage...

I take care of a property for a friend and after he had to evict a tennant recently for non-payment for 5 months and get a court order to get the place back when we finally got in there clean things out and asses the damage I scored some things that were left behind and classified as junk by the courts.

I got a NXA Stainless tool box (costco cheapy). was missing the casters and 2 drawers were busted and missing a stainless piece with the lock for the bottom cabinet, also the welds on the center support were broke. Got it mostly fixed up now. still have to get a piece of stainless and bend it and weld it in.

Next on the list was a portable garage. have it setup in front of the garage right now and storing a dead truck and a bunch of other stuff.. that I got from there.. (garden shovels, rakes, snow shovels, string trimmers and stuff yet to be gone through).

Got 500 feet of rubber air hoses. good year 3/8" line. there was some punches, swiss army knives, files, grinding discs, and other stuff in the tool box. a cheap hvlp air sprayer (can always use them for priming). 2 50' retractable hose reels for air lines. 2 50' retractable extension cord reels.

some stands for cutting, and roller stands, a roller work table and also a cratsman lt1000 garden tractor that isnt running yet. seems to need a carb cleaning and a solenoid.

Excuse the mess around everything. been a long few months with doing the renos at the rental and working full time and part time. haven't had much time to work on things and people just put stuff anywhere they could find a place in the garage when it was coming over. add a few broken snow blowers and it dosnt take long to fill up this little place. but now that I no longer have 2 ford 6l diesel engines on the floor having parts transferred around from a swap things should go pretty quick on the cleanup. the new tool box may help find places for all of the spare tools I had around as well
 

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KF5LCH

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Your shop looks like mine after a big project. Stuff strung everywhere.

That's a good haul. I love freebies. I won't hesitate to latch onto free stuff, be it junk or not. Once I get it home, I'll cull through it & keep what I want.
 
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Neura

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for some reason people love these stainless boxes and in my area used stainless boxes are going for $600-800. I figure I either use it or sell it and use the money towards a good roller cabinet 72" long. Garden tractor will either have hydraulics added and a bucket or be fixed and sold. then I can start going through the rest of the stuff.. yeah the shop (we never park in it) has stuff everywhere right now. was cleaning and sorting out my other box before the dead diesel showed up for a engine swap and the rental house clean out... I figure in freebies if I had to go purchase the stuff (some used some new since some of it was). there was well over $3,000 worth of goods.

Also didn't help that 3 weeks ago the old unit hanger furnace died so it had to be replaced with a new reznor 45K unit.. wife said get a new one so I wasn't going to pass that up :)
 
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