What do you do when you end a tools life?

[Empty Pockets]

If the particular job is hard on tools, I price the job accordingly. When the tool eventually breaks, I exchange it under warranty, if not possible, I simply trash it and buy new

 

[landrover bodger]

Power tools i see if anything is worth keeping off it . Hand tools if i cant warranty them they go in the box that i use if i need to make a special tool

 

[samss]

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[sberry]

I just tossed half a pickup load of broke ****, I certainly aint sending it to someone in hopes they can save or fix it. Already cost a lot to save it for nothing and am not going to spend more on it, cost a lot to simply handle to toss it away as it is.

 

[Gmonkee]

My range of user tools goes from shop made inadequate **** to Euro bling. A lot of scrounging in the junk just to see if I could do or duplicate something.

But if it has no hope of falling into future use -in a reasonable time frame- its off to the scrapper with the metals. The rest converts to garden soil.

I do reuse stuff as possible wherever possible in all aspects of home and work. As long as its safe of course.

There is a certain box of old tool related experiments not good enough to use but not so boring to just toss out and forget about. I hope I remember to shitcan them before the estate sale.
Nobody else will understand why such **** exists.

 

[bry@n]

It all depends on what it is. Hand tools I throw in a pile and get them warrantied when I have time. I usually have doubles/ triples of the common sizes.

Power tools I either fix or give to a local guy to tinker with. Sometimes he will get things going with parts from 2-3. I buy him lunch and move on.

 

[M6erfan]

What do you do when you end a tools life?

I move on....

 

[openwheelracing88]

trash is trash.

 

[disston]

I throw broken tools in the trash if I can't think of some other use for it. I also throw away tools that don't work or piss me off.

When I was younger I remember I had a socket that was cracked. I held it together with a small hose clamp until I got another one. Then I threw it away.

Worn out files I am likely to keep as the steel can be made into many useful things like knives. I don't make knives but if I run into somebody who does he can have all my worn out files.

I don't keep broken screwdrivers to make punches or pry bars. I have tools that are already punches or pry bars. I do have a couple of bent screwdrivers. They are for reaching around corners.

 

[fsae0607]

If I can't repair it, I harvest it for useful components like hardware and throw it in the recycle bin or if it has lots of metal, I put it out on the curb for the scrap metal dudes that drive by.

 

[bwringer]

Anything worn goes right into the scrap bin. The second a phillips screwdriver starts skipping, it's outtahere. Hex bit a little chewy? Done. File skating (and it's not dirty or clogged)? Yerrout.

When my Dad died, I inherited THOUSANDS of pounds of worn-out **** going back to Grandpa's farm in the '40s. Neither one of them would ever dream of throwing out a screwdriver, a broken wrench, a burned-up drill, etc.

Hell, I was a grown man before I knew what it was like to use a file that would actually cut.

 

[mikegt4]

For a real tool guy there is only one thing to do.

 

[bwringer]

For a real tool guy there is only one thing to do.

A Viking tool funeral would actually be kinda cool if you had a vat of molten steel or lava ready to go. Sorta like the scene at the end of Terminator 2 where the terminator sinks into the vat and gives a thumbs up.

Or maybe it would be more like the end of Lord of the Rings, where Gollum and the Ring sink into the lava.