WTB Tools of retired techs

[Mr.Glock]

 

[bdiddy13]

After checking, I may have a couple of excess torque wrenches/instruments. What line of work are you in?

Industrial maintenance, I’m the welder fabricator they’re paying for me to get certified in just about everything else

 

[trekrok]

I was a craftsman fan years ago. But as stated above, craftsman today is not craftsman of old.

 

[cmc tom]

Knuckle buster for 47 yrs, started 1969. Mostly cranes and heavy equipment. Craftsman brand was fine for basic sets. Mac and snap on needed for specialty jobs. Still have some old (1950's) S-K wrenches and socket sets from my dad. He passed in 2001, when I use them, the memories flood my mind. Think I'll take a walk into my garage and give them a wipe with an oily shop rag.

 

[rjbrooks7]

Knuckle buster for 47 yrs, started 1969. Mostly cranes and heavy equipment. Craftsman brand was fine for basic sets. Mac and snap on needed for specialty jobs. Still have some old (1950's) S-K wrenches and socket sets from my dad. He passed in 2001, when I use them, the memories flood my mind. Think I'll take a walk into my garage and give them a wipe with an oily shop rag.

I’ve got a lot of that old school SK stuff. Really top quality. Those SK ratchets from the 70’s are as smooth as anything I’ve ever used and the sockets really seem to be as good as some of my snap-ons.

 

[Snattlerake]

Hows about some WIZARD sockets? When I say complete, I mean including the off sizes and two square nut sockets.

 

[dennishoddy]

I went all Proto Professional when starting industrial maintenance back in the late 70's. Stayed with that brand with a few craftsman tools that were used at home. Snap-on screwdrivers were junk IMHO. Only tip hardened and easily broken when one had to apply serious pressure on stuck screws. The craftsman screwdrivers back in the day Rockwelled a 46 hardness for the full length of the shaft which was hard but still allowed re-tipping when one got wear from use.
Snap-on was a 29 hardness except for the tip.
Still have a very large triple level Proto tool box that I brought home with two hang on additions mounted on a cart because the factory wheels can't support that much weight. My sons will get them when I'm done.

 

[Shottyshooter90]

Just a heads up, many of the Caterpillar hand tools are rebranded snap on. You can go buy them and warranty them from Warren Cat in OKC. They are the same thing at a fraction of the cost.

 

[Dumpstick]

Knuckle buster for 47 yrs, started 1969. Mostly cranes and heavy equipment. Craftsman brand was fine for basic sets. Mac and snap on needed for specialty jobs. Still have some old (1950's) S-K wrenches and socket sets from my dad. He passed in 2001, when I use them, the memories flood my mind. Think I'll take a walk into my garage and give them a wipe with an oily shop rag.

I've got some SK tools (sockets and ratchets, and some weird crap that I have no clue what it was designed to do...) from my great-uncle. He wrenched back in the 1930s- early 1950s. I never met the man, but I use his tools.

 

[SPDguns]

Still for sale. Still FULL of tools......