What do you do with surplus workshop equipment?

[Rhylsailer99]

i am currently renting a container to house my heavy myford lathe and 85kg pillar drill plus lots more stuff i hope to be able to use again . it used to all sit in my fishing shop but since selling the shop and opening a cafe it would not be a good idea to have a lathe in the back room

 

[waynes world]

nah you should encase it for a feature in the cafe

 

[Laminar Flow]

Real Men don't give away tools. They can't sell them either.

Firstly, because they will still need them - some day ...
Secondly, because they have a completely overinflated opinion as to their secondhand value.

No worries though, when they go to that big tool shop in the sky, their wife will let you have the lot for just a fiver at the post mortem rummage sale. Table saw and planer included.

 

[Poignard]

"He who dies with most tools - WINS!"

 

[coopec]

It's not just the tools I have to find a home for.

There's an Olympia typewriter, a 35mm slide projector, old toasters/jugs/oscillating fans (still working), X2 VHS reecorder/players, VHS Movie cassettes, Windows 97 software discs, Villiers stationary engines, 2 perfectly good men's bicycles (I keep as back-ups)........

 

[[70521]]

But I'm moving house now and find I have two generations of tools., What do I do with them ?
Very shortly we will be driving around in electric vehicles which will require about as much maintenance as a household fridge.

Donate them to Men In Sheds.

 

[pandos]

Real Men don't give away tools. They can't sell them either.

Firstly, because they will still need them - some day ...
Secondly, because they have a completely overinflated opinion as to their secondhand value.

No worries though, when they go to that big tool shop in the sky, their wife will let you have the lot for just a fiver at the post mortem rummage sale. Table saw and planer included.

I thought I was alone....

Last week I went to the boat with a limited amount of tools to do a small job...sods law dictates that if you do not have all your tools then you will need the one left at home...
Sods law proved to be correct...

 

[The Q]

In our model railway club is a selection of power tools, they have been recently inherited from our late chairman. Those that are not needed by the club will be offered for a donation to club members first, those left will be sold off..
It's common for layouts and rolling stock to be disposed of in the same way..

 

[Sandro]

You keep something for 40 years because it could be needed and you never need it. You give it away. Time one week you happen to need it.
This is no joke.

 

[Keith 66]

"He who dies with most tools - WINS!"

Fully kitted out Harrison 140 lathe, Arboga milling machine, Forge, compressor, Mig, Tig & Arc welders, Bandsaw, circ saw, planer thicknesser & now a laser cutter, plus lots of decent power & hand tools. Last count i had in the region of 200 different clamps from tiny to huge.
I never begrudge money spent on tools! And i stopped buying cheap shite years ago its false economy.

 

[coopec]

Fully kitted out Harrison 140 lathe, Arboga milling machine, Forge, compressor, Mig, Tig & Arc welders, Bandsaw, circ saw, planer thicknesser & now a laser cutter, plus lots of decent power & hand tools. Last count i had in the region of 200 different clamps from tiny to huge.
I never begrudge money spent on tools! And i stopped buying cheap shite years ago its false economy.

D you ever ask yourself if it would be cheaper to have something done by an industry specialist rather than buying the equipment to do it yourself?

 

[Keith 66]

D you ever ask yourself if it would be cheaper to have something done by an industry specialist rather than buying the equipment to do it yourself?

Sometimes! But mostly no. I have a very practical background & was a boatbuilder for most of my career, then worked in education as a D&T technician. I love making things, most of my machinery came my way following closures of school & college workshops which resulted in me acquiring it for next to nothing. In the past i would farm out work but so many companies i used to use have gone bust or gone through old age that its getting difficult to get anything done especially nearby. Then you get the aspect of being let down the British disease.
I learnt that often its quicker to do it yourself than farm it out, after all every day is a school day!
For instance, if you asked me 20 years ago who i would recomend locally to do GRP repairs, Marine engineering, etc I could have recomended half a dozen good guys, Today im hard pushed to think of any i would trust on my own boat. Seems that the good guys have to cover a vastly bigger area to scrape a living & most of the good ones are miles away.

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

In the present circumstances there will, no doubt be an organisation near you sending convoys of aid to Ukraine, as there are here in Ireland. There will be a requirement for all sorts of tools to rebuild the cities of that unfortunate country when they convince their aggressors to go away.

 

[coopec]

I know the feeling of achieving something yourself.

I picked up a heavy duty power hacksaw which had been used by a Caterpillar Branch up until the 90s for$50. But the hacksaw was probably 50 years old and still going strong. The problem was that it had a 3 phase motor and my house was single phase. I installed an old washing machine motor which was OK for cutting but I had to swing the large 30 inch "V" belt pulley(?) to help it get going initially.

Then I installed a second washing machine motor in parallel and it worked perfectly! I used to sit and watch it saw through a 50mm ss shaft and I loved every second of it.?

 

[Poignard]

Having too many tools is not the problem.

The problem is not having enough room for them!