IMHO, Herbrand is junk !! We were given some at work, and I found them to be poor quality. Most of my tools are Craftsman which my parent bought me when I was a kid. These are 35-40 years old now, and have only replaced 2-3 items from the sets. Snap-On makes nice comfortable wrenches, but not worth the price. They're like the expensive designer jeans of tools!
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A while back I bought a car off a guys wife when he died. Along with it, I got a lot of his tools. I have a gazillion sockets, wrenches, screwdrivers etc. I plan to put them in an upcoming garage sale.
The thing is, there are many sockets that are old snap-ons, herbrands, mactools, proto. Are these old pro tools worth any more than the tiawan ones when they are old and not in prestine condition? Also I got alot of weird looking tools that I don't know what they are. Maybe brake tools. I just don't know what to price them at. Any value in this old stuff?
I'm wondering the same thing. I have a few ratchets that are quite old that my grandfather gave me. I'd never sell them but I mean how many are left around that are in working order? Everything is worth something to the right person I guess. Here's a couple pics of them. I'm getting quite a bit of my grandfather's old tool collection including old beach tool chest, as he was a mechanic.
Older tools are much better made than the newer junk...especially the foreign junk generally. If I saw older Snap On sockets at a buck a piece, I would grab all you had.
Post up some pics of tools you are not sure of, I am sure someone here will know what it is.....might even sell them all here
well since i have my dad s old snap on tool box there s already some snap on tools ..........in it .........but more tools is always fun .... Beach tool chest was actually sold a canadian tire ... ........that s what i have for the top part .........my dad 3 drawer snap on was getting to small. ........... i was with him when he pick up the Beach tool chest
Odd how you can have a favorite wrench.I guess it is the comfort thing.Pick up the favorite one and you just know it is going to work.Mine oddly enough was a Gray 9/16---1/2 combo as well .I guess they just make good tools.Lost mine in a car that went to the scrapper.Pissed me of cause I had that wrench fo over 25 yrs and to me it was worth more than I got for that useless car. Ed
Strange concept selling tools . been collecting them most of my life and I know the first one i sold would be the one I need tomorrow. For what someone gives you for it at a garage sale Id leave it in the tool box. But thats just me . Picked up a full rack of specialty snap on sockets at the spring swap meet for 10.00 bucks easy 3, 4 hundred off the truck .Looking through another box picked up a 14mm forged Mercedes dog legged oil pan wrench 3 bucks between 45 and 75 on line but for 3 bucks ill keep it. But again I come from a long line of tool hoarders along with some of my great grandfathers tools dating back to the 1800s . And when I'm ready to crawl off to the woods and die ill pass them along to someone I like and know they will use them. Poor bastard better bring a big truck
Interesting topic!! I also have a number of old tools, sockets, wrenches etc, mostly Snap on, Gray, Herbrand, Williams, etc. For some reason i never liked Proto, so never buy them at garage sales. Back a few years ago at a sale i bought a bunch of big wrenches wrapped in black tape, all Snap On, they ran in 16ths from 1inch up to 1 1/2 for $10.00. Occaisionaly you will find good name brand tools real cheap.
A friend of mine who was a tool hoarder that passed away awhile ago had 4 complete top chests and roll cabinets all FULL, of mechanics tools he had found over the years. He had triples and quadruples of just about everything, i helped clean out his garage that was so full of just everything no one could actually walk into it. This was an interesting project, found the strangest things in there,machinery, motors,pails, cans, boxes packed full of things. He had two bench grinders that he used a bit, but also had 4 new bench grinders still in the boxes!! Funny thing was, he never really did much with this stuff, besides the garage full, he had a 53ft tractor trailer in his yard also FULL, of antiques, old machines, steel barrels FULL of odds and ends, and also a shed packed full of stuff , found 4 table saws, 3 radial arm saws, There was anything and everything there!! Lol "Great Fun" !!
I see no one here has mentioned "SK" or "S-K Wayne" tools.
I read on another site that the original "S-K" company folded and was bought out by three different companies over a period of just a few years. (One was "Snap On")
It was posted that during the final buy out, ALL remaining original "S-K" stock was loaded into large scrap bins and hauled straight to a large foundry/furnace, and immediatley melted down, the bins where guarded from start to finish untill they were emptied and everything including "S-K" boxes of all sorts, were destroyed. Sad, but probably true,,,,"Eliminate the competion".
We had a company in Port Hope that made files.I think they were in business in town for 50 yrs,seems like every one in town had a relative that worked there at one time or another as there are still Nicholson files in every household.Don't know if any of the hardware stores ever sold a file because there were so many, seconds,floating around.It was bought by Cooper Tools,lasted a few years then was closed and moved to the States,suprise,suprise.Eliminate the compition is right. Ed
Lots of good old name brands gone i guess forever!! Seen heavy equipment tires, the past couple of years made in Korea, Thailand,, and,, EVEN EGYPT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I heard that all Snap On's "Bluepoint" brand tools are now comming from offshore.
Hell, i even have a box of Robertson wood screws here made in vietnam!!!!!!!!
for some reason I place gray and craftsman above say mastercraft and stanley but below snap-on and herbrand, quality wise.
Gray used to make mastercraft stuff, up to the 80's I think, then mastercraft started importing stuff. I seem to remember someone saying they even sold Bonney at one time.
Craftsman, Mastercraft and Stanley are all made by the same folks now (I am pretty sure, Stanley might be on their own). Danaher then Apex tool group and now Bain.
Gray in the last couple of years introduced an import line "Dynamic".
Even with Gray mainline tools you have to be careful, I bought a set of Gray ball-peen hammers with the assurance that they were "Made in Canada" (this was due to me not being able to buy Estwing ball-peens in Canada for some reason). Anyway a month after I made the purchase, don't I get a shock when I see the same hammers at PA under the Pro-point name. Needless to say I was pretty pissed off at the salesman and have not been back to that store since.
(If you have not noticed I spend way to much time on tool forums)
-- Edited by Keeper on Saturday 22nd of June 2013 02:34:19 PM
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Are they worth more then imported tools. Yes. If you are looking to sell them off, list them all here. They will probably sell pretty quick.
As for a value, best thing I can recommend, go to the garagejournal. Look through the classifieds, that will give you an idea of what most things are selling for. Stay away from ebay as most of those prices are out to lunch.
Bluepoint has always been the import line for Snap-on. Their "industrial" line is Williams, that one you need to watch as some are US made, some are import.
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