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Treasure Hunter

02-20-2005 05:46:04




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Found a good used,4-way lug wrench S-K Wayne,chrome plated. At the FM yesterday [$2.00] I"d never seen a S-K Wayne lug wrench before. Anyone else finding any "good-stuff" always like to hear "bout bargins.




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Jim in Michigan

02-24-2005 22:48:21




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 Re: Flea market find in reply to Treasure Hunter, 02-20-2005 05:46:04  
We have a Mac 1/2 inch breaker bar that dad bought at a junk sale years ago,, I finally managed to break the drive off while using it to break loose a bolt, had a 6 foot pipe on it when I did it,, I called Mac and they sent me a new end for the bar, no charge,,,Jim



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Jon H

02-21-2005 11:30:21




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 Re: Flea market find in reply to Treasure Hunter, 02-20-2005 05:46:04  
I have had experience with two companies lifetime warrenties that have left me very loyal to companies that back their products this well. The automatic locking Warn brand front hubs which were original equipment on a 20 year old IH 4X4 pickup were starting to give problems with slow or no lockup. They needed a little plastic friction brake pad that was worn out. IH said no parts,only a complete new hub could be supplied at $160 each. I checked the local speed shop that handled Warn products who contacted Warn by phone. With in a few days I recieved the little plastic parts from Warn at no cost. Years later when I replaced the troublsome front hubs on a later pickup,I replaced them with Warn hubs. I also added an electric winch to my car trailer,you better believe it was a Warn winch. Another was a one wheel bike type exercize machine dumped at the salvage yard by the local health club. My buddy who owns the salvage yard gave me the thing. It was in like new condition except that the pedal crankshaft was all sloppy and loose. I removed the side pannels and found that one too many tubby guts had used the pedals as a step while climbing on/off and had broken the sheetmetal bushing retainers plus the bushings had some wear. I called the toll free number on the decal for the maker,Diversified Products co in Alabama. The machine looked good enough that I thought it was worth $20-30 cost to replace the parts. The lady at DP said the parts were avalible.When I asked about the cost,she replied that the machine had a lifetime warrenty and the parts would be shipped to me at no cost.

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RayP(MI)

02-20-2005 14:39:06




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 Re: Flea market find in reply to Treasure Hunter, 02-20-2005 05:46:04  
Acquired a S-K breaker bar that had been broken and left in my field by a renter-farmer a while back. Gave it to my father-in-law who frequented a store selling S-K. first thing owner said was "Show me the receipt..." Needless to say, I didn"t get a new one. Who keeps receipts for tools that they mey well keep for a "lifetime?"



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Davis in SC

02-20-2005 05:54:05




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 Re: Flea market find in reply to Treasure Hunter, 02-20-2005 05:46:04  
Got a bag of "Oddball" such as offset, Mac wrenches for a dollar each yesterday



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Steve Crum

02-20-2005 06:07:53




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 Re: Flea market find in reply to Davis in SC, 02-20-2005 05:54:05  
Bought a big bundle of Craftsman and S-K end wrenches (24 total)at a flea market last year for 3 bucks. Most were broken, all were misused. The lady I bought them from stated "I don't even know why he dragged those here". No problem ma'am I'll make use of them. The salesman at Sears only had to had the lifetime warranty explained once for the 20 craftsman wrenches, The parts store guys just laughed about what the S-K rep was going to say. 3 bucks was a good price for 24 new wrenches, no?

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Treasure Hunter

02-20-2005 06:16:45




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 Re: Flea market find in reply to Steve Crum, 02-20-2005 06:07:53  
I know a guy who works at Sears,partime,and hits the flea market too. Last spring he found a bag, [several dozen]broken C-man screwdrivers for $3.00 on Sat. a.m. {on his way to Sears/PT job}.Saw him Sunday morning,and he had a ticket where he'd gotten a couple $100 in credit on the screwdrivers. And he didn't have to worry about any problems,he works in TOOL/HARDWARE!!!!!dept of SEARS



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Dug

02-20-2005 07:42:02




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 Re: Flea market find in reply to Treasure Hunter, 02-20-2005 06:16:45  
It's been debated before on this forum, but I honestly don't understand how you guys can basically find a tool in the garbage and expect the manufacturer to warrant it. I'll bet you are the same kind of people that think all business is bad and anything you can do to screw the big, bad business is fine!

I worked in retail for several years, had a good paying management job, but left it because I couldn't stand dealing with pathetic, greedy, self-absorbed people.

Dug

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NC Wayne

02-20-2005 16:18:18




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 Re: Flea market find in reply to Dug, 02-20-2005 07:42:02  
Hey Dug, after you've known some of your local tool reps for quite a few years and ask them enough questions you'll find out that the manufacturers like Snap-On, MAC, etc expect every tool to come back at least three times in the course of it's " life time warranty". As such they charge, upfront, well in excess of three times what the cost of the tool would normaly be to offset this warranty. Like another post stated if they were so worried about used tools being bought broken and turned in by someone other than the origional owner they would have stated in the origional warranty that it was for the "origional owner only". As many years as they've been doing this I've never seen one of them going bankrupt covering these types of tools. As a mechanic by trade my way of looking at it is I know if I can buy the tools cheap and use quality tools and if their good enough to cover things like this under warranty then I know I'll have no problem when I do turn in a tool that I bought new and three times the price for. Plus I don't think I've ever gone in a tool store to turn in something broken and not bought at least one other tool that I just couldn't live without. Basically having a good warranty and standing behind it 110%, in this line of work, is just good public relations, and that's worth way more than the cost of a couple of overpriced wrenches..... As for the S-K dealer that wouldn't take them in I'd ask them to show me in writing where the warranty stated the origional reciept was needed...if they can do it fine...if not then I'd be danged if I'd ever buy any tools from that distributor. I've got a 1/4 drive S-K ratchet right now that needs to go back for the first time. They better not even think about asking for the reciept for the $200 plus set it came in that was bought nearly 5 years ago..... ....Just my .02.

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Chester

02-21-2005 08:43:30




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 Re: Flea market find in reply to NC Wayne, 02-20-2005 16:18:18  
Have a 1/4" drive set and deep 3/8" drive sockets that I bought new in 1955 and now a couple need replacing. Took them to a dealer here and was told TOO OLD (no warranty period) So, as I live in Canada, brought them with me over the border to a couple of places off I-75 somewhere, and got that SHOW ME THE RECEIPT routine also from both. Even went as far as to contact S-K directly with zero results. Can"t remember the exact outcome there..... ....geez, must be getting old. But still have those cracked sockets. May follow up on that one again directly with S-K for the H of it.

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TomH

02-20-2005 08:17:06




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 Re: Flea market find in reply to Dug, 02-20-2005 07:42:02  
Dug -

On one hand, what you say has merit. Buying a tool that's broken because you know you can get a new one in it's place seems a bit shady.

On the other hand, the manufacturer built a guarantee into the original price. If they meant "original owner" or some other limited warranty they should say so. But when they say unconditional guarantee forever they have to mean it. If they don't intend to stand behind what they advertised, they're committing fraud.

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Treasure Hunter

02-20-2005 06:05:45




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 Re: Flea market find Davis? Where are you shopping in reply to Davis in SC, 02-20-2005 05:54:05  
Davis,I see you are a regular "flea-finder".Where are you going/ I'm in N.E. Georgia and go to J&J in Athens and Anderson J-Lot [some]



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Davis In SC

02-20-2005 10:45:33




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 Re: Flea market find Davis? Where are you shopping in reply to Treasure Hunter, 02-20-2005 06:05:45  
I usually just hit the local small fleas, one is only a few miles from home. Actually, I do better at the small ones, prices are lots cheaper than at the big ones. As spring approaches, quite a few people show up with a truckload of junk cleaned out of a barn or garage. One lady had cleaned out her 93 year old Dad's garage. I got 2 five-gallon buckets of vintage Stanley tools. The price she wanted was so low that I gave her double what she asked, would have felt bad otherwise. Once a year, I usually go to the Anderson J-Lot to sell machine-shop related stuff. It is a good market to sell at, I think they get about 50,000 shoppers per weekend.

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