The seller in the listing I'll link to really should have dropped in here and taken a look at the discussions. The wrench just burns my eyes even looking at it. Just more proof that not just anybody can sell on ebay, or any other site for that matter. Remember sellers, a little research on the internet that you are selling on will do you wonders in the end. It is also one reason I've never really minded people just dropping in and asking questions about how much something is worth, or if it rare or whatever they need to ask. Sure, you can normally tell they are just asking so they can sell the item and don't really care, but at least they are trying to be intelligent sellers.

I won't even get into the price they have on them, that's another whole can of worms. I had to send them a note about "cleaned" and overcleaned" though. Thought about being a real jerk and offering them $1 for the pair and say since they ruined them that's all they are worth. But I think I would have been overpaying for them. Only about .15 cents worth of scrap there.

Remember to put your welding visors on before looking.....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-2-Antique-Buggy-Wood-Wheel-Carriage-Hub-Primitive-Wrenches-w-Nut-2320-D-/290842111041?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43b78a6c41

Some poor schmuck spent 3 hours polishing a $2 wrench...LOL

There may be something to their madness though. Was just looking through completed items.... High prices on most everything with best offer option. Almost everything was sold on best offer.

They did reply that they bought out an estate and all the tools were cleaned this way, completed items confirms that is probably true. Can't believe people are actually buying these bright, ugly tools. I'll take a little rust color any day over that almost chrome looking garbage. To each their own, I guess.

Hmmm, too bad. :-/

Looks like something an interior decorator would buy. They are easily hypnotized by shiny baubles.

Just for curiosity sake, dad had a couple of old wrenches chrome plated ( there was a place in Lincoln that would chrome plate anything )   The sale price realized did not recover his expense for the experiment.

Quote from: mvwcnews on April 11, 2013, 07:28:40 AM
Just for curiosity sake, dad had a couple of old wrenches chrome plated ( there was a place in Lincoln that would chrome plate anything )   The sale price realized did not recover his expense for the experiment.

Stan, I bought one of them at your Dad's Auction in 1996 and still have it, It's the Fordson curved handled Crescent type. I think your mother had it chromed for him for a birthday or some other special occasion.

Okay, that is certainly a case where I would take pride in having the wrenches. When there is a story behind it and it involves people you know, it would be a neat addition to the collection. My biggest problem is that I can see some nitwit doing the cleaning like that on a Cassaday cutout and think they've done good by doing so.

On the same note... Does anybody do chrome plating in the US anymore? I have a few family tools that I'd love to have redone, even if it wasn't cost effective, just to preserve them and keep them in the family.

QuoteDoes anybody do chrome plating in the US anymore?

I'm sure they do. I used to get motorcycle parts chromed in Houston. There were several places I knew of, but that was 30 years ago.

I know several places in the city that chrome plating its just expensive as can be thoe.