Garage Gazette
General Category => GENERAL DISCUSSION TO INCLUDE OFF TOPIC => Topic started by: Uncle Buck on March 19, 2024, 07:19:22 PM
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For the last few months I have been buying tons of stuff from ebay. The vast majority of the stuff I have bout has been machinist tools.
About 2/3 if not more of the tools and stuff I have bought come from Pennsylvania. That seems so odd to me.
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Lots of manufacturing previously, if not as much now in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois. Sometimes I check those areas for prices on stuff on Facebook Marketplace and just drool on the selection.
If I was still in Michigan, I'd probably have a lot more stuff than I do now. In Georgia, if you see certain things, you have to jump on them fast because they don't show up often and they'll be gone quick.
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Another factor could be the people who used those tools are starting to die off and families are selling out the estate. When I was hitting the estate sales I knew which neighborhoods the older petrochem guys lived in and I would hit those sales religiously.
They sent their kids off to college and the kids wound up with good office jobs and had no clue what those hand tools were. they just wanted the house cleaned out to sell it.
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I know a couple of resellers who say Fla is ripe for tool deals, especially if you buy the complete collections
I imagine a lot of retirees selling their tools
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I know a couple of resellers who say Fla is ripe for tool deals, especially if you buy the complete collections
I imagine a lot of retirees selling their tools
A lot of tools I've bought on Ebay have come from Florida actually.
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I know a couple of resellers who say Fla is ripe for tool deals, especially if you buy the complete collections
I imagine a lot of retirees selling their tools
I believe that too. I have bought a number of tools that came from there as well.
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I work and live in the Philly metro area and their is gobs of surplus machinist tools if one looks enough. The former manufacturing base and the associated tool and die makers that once was here was staggering.
Like anything else, as these former workers of these industries die out, so do their tools hit the market.
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I have been buying odds and ends machinist stuff several times a week for over 6 months and 90 % comes from states along the Eastern seabord, with a lesser percentage coming from Florida, and a few from other states. For the last few weeks, alot has come from New York.By far, most has come from Pennsylvania.