It was craigslist that paid off this time! :)

I love it when the seller fails to mention the brand of the old quality tools he's listing, as it means other would-be buyers are less likely to see the ad, giving ol' LG a better shot!

Such was the case on Wednesday when I spotted this:




http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/tls/3614409929.html


Of course, I recognized it was Gedore immediately, and was pretty sure it was a 3/4" or 1" drive set. I called the seller and asked what the drive-size was. He said it "looked like 3/4"" and then mentioned he had another, smaller set that was probably 1/2". I told him I'd take the larger one for certain and very probably the smaller one too. I was quite certain it's a Gedore 6280930 32 FMZ set with a breaker added since he told me the largest socket is 60mm!

Now East York is clear across Toronto from me, and I was (and still am) fighting a cold or allergies or the Plague. That wouldn't have kept me from driving in, but I figured I'd ring my buddy who often works in the area but lives here in the west suburbs to see if he could do a pickup. Sure enough, he happened to be about 5km away, so he headed over & grabbed the set for me. He called to report that the half-inch set was missing 6 sockets, the ratchet and at least one extension, so I passed on that for $25. But he asked if I would be interested in one of those "fold-out" tool boxes with some "wrenches and junk" included? I knew he meant a cantilever box as I already have a Gedore model, but another with Gedore wrenches included for $25 was a no-brainer, so he snatched that too for a total of $75!

I met my friend for beers last night & collected my loot. I spent an hour or two today cleaning the cantilever box & contents and will do the same to the socket set soon...

Let's start with the socket set:

It is a D 32 FMU-2 (6281230) Socket Set
   

• With forged, tempered UD-profile sockets (no. D 32), hand-operated
• With accessories made from GEDORE vanadium steel 31CrV3
• Set U-2 with fine toothed, dial change ratchet
• In GEDORIT blue sheet steel case
• Dimensions: 555 x 230 x 80 mm

The set is supposed to include 22 mm, 24 mm, 27 mm, 30 mm, 32 mm, 36 mm, 38 mm, 41 mm, 46 mm, 50 mm, 55 mm & 60 mm sockets along with a Sliding T-bar, Extension (200mm), Extension (400mm) and a Reversible ratchet. My set is missing the 22mm socket (I have both a 22mm & a 24mm in 1/2"-drive) and the shorter extension. But it also includes a Proto breaker bar and Proto 1" socket!







Next is the cantilever box itself. It isn't actually marked, and I initially thought it was a Gedore box, but I now believe it is a Hazet 190L.







Oddly, both boxes show many battle scars (though both work just fine) but the tools themselves are in much better condition. I suspect that may be because they were stored in less-than-ideal conditions over years.

Here's what was in the box!

First - a collection of Gedore No. 7 combination wrenches. 6, 7, 8, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 & 24mm sizes.




Then a near-complete set of No. 6 DOEs from 26mm down to 6mm and a pair of No. 400 flare-nut wrenches in 8mm, 10mm, 12mm, & 14mm sizes!




This was followed by an assortment of Teutonic goodness including a Gedore 197-1 Swedish-pattern pipe wrench, Knipex 11-01-160 end-type wire-strippers, Weidmüller stripax® wire-strippers, a cool pick tool that disassembles into 3 pieces, 4 Wiha 334-Series T-handle hex keys and a half-round #2 file & a half-round cabinet rasp both by Friedrich Dick. There was also a French-made Muller 25mm cold chisel & a Swedish-made Sandvik hacksaw blade.




Then there was an incomplete set of LARGE metric German-made hex keys. The largest key is 18mm...




Finally, there were 3 other wire-strippers that will go to friends or back on kijiji. Two are crappy no-name stamped jobs, but there is also a very nice vintage Speedex stripper made in Rockford, Illinois that I would be keeping if I didn't already have some Ideal Stripmasters...




There were a few other things not worth photographing including a tap and handle of no apparent noteworthiness, a few odd wrenches, hex keys, zip ties, and so on.

I figure the new retail on this stuff must be ~$2000.

LG is happy.

Very nice fine, I would say you did good!

Living up to the Kijiji King name!

Life's all about luck really, sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad. Glad to see your on the right side ATM.

Batz

The name Gedore was familiar, but I didn't know about the company. Here is what I found. The list at the bottom has possibilities too. Great score LG. Do you use 3/4" drive tools?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedore

I would say you did really well, some real nice tools there,congratulations.

Quote from: johnsironsanctuary on February 16, 2013, 07:36:56 AM
Great score LG. Do you use 3/4" drive tools?

I don't. But it's nice to know that I can!

Quote from: johnsironsanctuary on February 16, 2013, 07:36:56 AM
The name Gedore was familiar, but I didn't know about the company.

Yes, and what that wiki doesn't mention is that when Willi left the firm (due to a disagreement with Otto) he founded another German tool company in the family name - Dowidat-Werke Willi Dowidat - which is why you might also encounter stuff like this:






And if you recall, I recently acquired a nice, German Iltis OCHSENKOPF Large Felling Axe.

http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=7178.msg45136#msg45136




The OCHSENKOPF axe (that is, "Ox-Head") is a well-known and highly-regarded brand made in Remscheid since 1781. Today, Iltis OCHSENKOPF is actually owned by Dako Werk Dowidat GmbH & Co.; that is, Gedore!

Help me out fellas, most of the Gedore I find at pawn shop"gray tubs", is made in India or some other oddball country.  Didn't realize that was originally a German  entity.  I have acquired some Dowidat wrenches from Germany, but no Gedores.  I'll keep looking tfrom this point forward....  Excellent finds, BTW


DM&FS

From what I have seen of Gedore, it's crap. I guess at one time, it was good stuff. Kinda like what has happened to some U.S. tool companies - if they didn't disappear altogether.

Quote from: dimwittedmoose51 on February 22, 2013, 08:40:10 PM
Help me out fellas, most of the Gedore I find at pawn shop"gray tubs", is made in India or some other oddball country.

Quote from: B17E1943 on February 22, 2013, 09:12:22 PM
From what I have seen of Gedore, it's crap. I guess at one time, it was good stuff.

Gedore has always been very good; or at least the German stuff has always been top notch. It is generally not considered at quite the level of the two big dogs in Deutschland - Stahlwille and Hazet - but it is certainly highly-regarded.

What you have both experienced is the truly awful Indian production that was common where I lived in the 1970s and 1980s. That stuff was probably the very worst I've ever seen & production ceased in the early 1980s.

We discussed them here in the past: http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=2955.0

I recently bought a lot that included some large Gedore combo wrenches that were South African production. I sold them again as they were sizes I already had covered, but the quality looked very good...