Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: dimwittedmoose51 on October 06, 2013, 05:21:00 AM
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Had a successful 7 hours at the World's Largest Garage Sale yesterday. They let you spend 5 hours Friday setting up( I could've used 6) plus an hour before the sale on Saturday. Folks pay $2 to get in this 100,000 square foot building and shop. Like last spring's event, I was pretty much the only one devoted strictly to tools, so there wasn't much to scavenge from the other vendors Friday afternoon or Saturday. Scored a nice Hinsdale line wrench(didn't even know they made them) for $2 and a vintage Giller tool box with the add on bottom corners for $7. The same guy had a couple of Wilton L-Grip adjustable width locking pliers made in Germany that were begging me to buy them since I'd never seen one before. He wanted $7 each for them. Picked up a few other items on the way out there. Sales were steady finally tailing off in the last half hour. Not the usual rush of folks coming at the end to the sale looking for "deep discounts" that they weren't going to get anyway. The vintage Snap On stuff will go to ebay now and slowly I'll be unloading these hundreds of pound s of steel by maybe having one more sale at the house before winter sets in. One guy bought $60 worth of old farm and auto tools from the rust bucket and I sold him a metal tool box for like $2 just to get them to the car.
The one thing I'm struggling with at these remote sales is dealing with the weight of the merchandise to and from the van(although I've gotten a bit bold and driven the van inside the building to load up and go home once the "path" is clear from the other 160 vendors that just had baby clothes to pack up), but from a marketing standpoint, I sort all of my "orphan" sockets by brand name in those Akro Mills plastic bins and virtually no one even touches them except if they are looking for a certain size socket that doesn't say Craftsman, MAC, Snap On, or SK on it. I'm wondering if I should change the sorting process to segregating the sockets by drive tool size, SAE/Metric, and socket size? You folks, as collectors, would likely want it set up like I currently do it, but the general public may think differently. Any opinions on that would be appreciated. I sold the Asian sockets for "A dollar a handful" and it was comical to watch some folks cherry pick what they could fit into their hand and others just get in there and grab.
The van went home definitely lighter than it arrived, so that deems the weekend a success. Photos below
Top Row-Strange Challenger/Easco Hack Saw 21-360...dual personality perhaps??
2nd row L-R:- 2 Wilton L-Grip 6204's(maybe 4-5" grip range) Anyone ever seen these things before??
4 NOS Ridgid 14" pipe jaws
Craftsman "Vanadium" 8" adjustable
Hinsdale 1" Line wrench(maybe 9" long)BR32
Powr-Kraft Hack Saw
3rd Row-Proto(LA) 1210 combo wrench
Indestro autokit wrench
Craftsman #80 Hacksaw
Buck Brothers Octagonal-handled V groove wood chisel
2 Powr-Kraft screwdrivers
Williams S-10 1/2" drive Speeder
Bottom-
Bonalloy 1162 combo
Bonney 11160 and 1161 combos
Bonney Stubby slot screwdriver.