Restore

[jim m]

Stoped by my local restore today. Not very big finds but they were free. Looked through the tools same old junk. But spotted a messed up Master Machanic 1/4drive spinner with a Snap on 8mm 6 point universal socket on and a round handle wrench each for a buck.
Then I see this old guy trying to pick up a spool of heavy cable. So I help him get it up to the register. Than I take it out to his truck for him.
When I go back in side to pay the lady behind the desk says no charge for all your help. When I get home I check snap on site 46.50 is the price for the socket.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Nice. Always good to help someone out and even better if your good deed is rewarded.

 

[bonneyman]

No good deed goes unpunished.

Wish I could get "punished" with a Snap-On tool.

 

[Rileysan]

Stoped by my local restore today. Not very big finds but they were free. Looked through the tools same old junk. But spotted a messed up Master Machanic 1/4drive spinner with a Snap on 8mm 6 point universal socket on and a round handle wrench each for a buck.
Then I see this old guy trying to pick up a spool of heavy cable. So I help him get it up to the register. Than I take it out to his truck for him.
When I go back in side to pay the lady behind the desk says no charge for all your help. When I get home I check snap on site 46.50 is the price for the socket.

That double box wrench appears to be a P&C wrench from the 1920s/30s. The P&C logos are often faint and/or incomplete, and the earlier wrenches had no sizes marked on them. Do you mind taking close-up pix?

Brian

 

[WZRoberts]

Jim, that's a great story. I wonder what the old guy was going to do with all that cable?

 

[jd_1138]

Good on you for helping him out. That kind of concern for others is getting rare -- sadly.

Good score on the tools. Our local Restore is pretty picked clean of tools (I am sure they must be cherry picked by the volunteers or from people arriving there early), but they have basics pretty cheap. There will be like a 5 pack of screwdrivers taped together for a buck -- Stanley black and yellow, HF, CM.

They have a lot of great materials -- electrical, plumbing, carpentry, lighting fixtures, etc.. I bought Wii Mario Kart for a buck. It's a $30 game, and I bought some nice beer glasses for 50 cents each.

 

[bczygan]

Helped load a couch into a pickup at a Restore in Ludington while on vacation, since clerk was disabled.

It was it's own reward, but I picked up 14 GFI outlets for $3 each.

Bill

We're all in this together...

 

[Richard Cranium]

our restore prices its stuff at 80 percent of retail, they are very over priced. I some times go in and just shake my head at the prices they have. They used to have a small little building and there was a lot of great priced stuff there. They moved into a much bigger building so I guess their rent went up a lot so they had to raise their prices.