Drill bit and reamer box Eric needs NDR

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Rex Ruths

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I brought this home from work before it got thrown away, wonder what its worth? cool old box.This would probably look good in Erics shop.
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Rex

That is very cool. It's funny because items like that have significant value to some yet they are frequently thrown away with no thought. That is one good thing about gov auctions. The gov tries to sell anything before they toss it. Right now old library card catalogs are a sought after item because they look classy and make great parts bins. Libraries are replacing them with PCs. Oak dovetail or fingerjoint drawers are quite sturdy. Some guys find them for next to free, while others some pay big bucks. It's all a matter of where you are the how knowledgable the person getting rid of them is on their value.

Very nice save Rex. You might search ebay and see if it is there. Might be collectible.

Eric
 
Nice save...but I think it would look better in my shop..not Eric's

Funny Eric mentioned the library card files......I have been looking for one
 
Thanks,,

Yup a tad far from Logan Utah Area.....I have watched the local bid sales from surplus at USU, and nothing when I check.

I figure they would be the thing for all the nuts, bolts, screws, fittings, tools, and so on I have collected like mad and been using for 35 years...
 
Eric,

Thou be a sick man to have such a neat shop....lol right now my shop is a total disaster...It is a one car garage and I have very little room, no shelves or storage, and I am storing some items for my daughter....that combined with a remodel going on else where in the house, combines for a wreck of a shop.

I am building an 8x10 shed with a 12-12 pitched roof and 8 foot walls...small attic in the 12-12 roof and line the walls with shelving....that should take some pressure off the garage/shop. All went well with the shed until the weather got cold - below zero in the morning.

Thanks
matt
 
That's really nifty...why anyone would throw something like that away is beyond me. I would say they are "idiots" but I never considered my Grandmother and idiot and she dumped all kinds of valuable stuff. This woman has hundreds of family heirlooms including a table I have in storage that came over from England on a very famous ship(I won't mention names because you wouldn't believe it anyway)and yet, she sold a custom made single shot 8 gauge shotgun with an octagonal barrel that my great grandfather owned for $10 at a rummage sale. In addition, my father had an original printing full set of James Fenimore Cooper novels that were in mint condition and when he went to the "university" she dumped them at the church rummage sale. Every family vacation we'd search used book stores for the same set and finally one time he came across them in Virginia. I think he paid like $1300 to replace them! Those are just the examples I'm aware of.

Many old offices and building in small towns are literally teaming with furniture and cases that would be very valuable to somebody and yet you see them all the time heaped into a pile of garbage out by the dumpster when some smart young developer has the place gutted.
 
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Matt, He isn't entirely sick. I saw a spot on his floor in a picture about a year ago.... rare but true...someday someday I will have such a shop... I wonder if that spot is still there....

 
Jay

It's all about bringing the interested buy and owner together. Just like your examples far too often people do not realize the value or the fact that someone would pay. I've done the same. My grandmother gave me a coin bank when I was a kid. It had a spring loaded rocket ship that slammed into the coin which launched it into a slot in the side of the moon. All metal. I threw it way only to learn many years later on Antique Road show it was an original and quite collectible.

Pete

Right now my shop is a wreck. Decoys, hunting gear, and Christmas decorations that need to go in the attic. Nothing but the essentials get done when it's hunting season.

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One just like the one I threw away.

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The reason that old stuff is valuable.......people throw it away...the less in existence the higher the possible value.....so thanks Eric...just keep a chucking that old stuff.....HAHAHAHA!!

Might as well thank that grandma also...
 
Then there are people like me..........piles of hardwood,,,stacks of plywood,,,,boxes and boxes of screws, nails,and so on and so forth..tools and more tools and tools then more tools...when I die my kids and wife will hate me
 
OK guys a short little tale here. My niece’s father in law is a pack rat of sorts. He is also a "country Doctor". One of his patients is an old lady whose husband had passed away several years ago. She had been on to her grown children to clean out the old mans shop and storage barn for several years. The lazy bums didn't help their poor mother out. (I've been told that they did stand around with their hands out though.) At any rate she asked "Doc" if he was interested in the junk. She asked him to make an offer. He went and looked it over and offered $2,500. She agreed and they struck a deal. He had 30 days to move the stuff. Mostly old garden tools, lumber, machine parts, etc. etc. He did get an old truck and a welder in the mix as well. Among the mess "Doc" found an old map. It was a map of Texas. Turns out this was an original first edition 1840's era map of what was to become the Republic of Texas. "Doc" took the map to an antiquities cartographer for a consultation. He asked how much he should insure it for. The guy tells him AT A MINIMUM- $150,000! This is a recent story. Now he thinks he needs to give it back, or at the very least sell it and place the money in trust for the old lady, because if her sorry children get their hands on it they will just blow the money.
 
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