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I buy goodie box's at sales and auctions and get my money's worth most of the time. Last Month I bought 5 Rubbermaid totes full of junk. I have been going thru them and I hit the jackpot wrenches files bits screwdrivers etc. I gave 5 bucks a box for them. I have gotten some old wrenches and pliers over the years and today I was cleaning up a couple pair that was in the box and when I started putting them in my tool box I realized I had a nice little collection of quality made tools. I use them regularly so they are not a collector item. I just like the quality of them. This is not all of the ones I have but a good representation of them.
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I agree that the pliers at top left look like Klein's, and if they are then I'd think they're worth what you paid for all 5 boxes, and everything else is gravy. I have an old pair that were my father's as far back as I can remember, and they'll cut barbed wire better than most pliers that are made to cut it.

I've had some wooden handled screwdrivers similar to a couple of those in your picture (the ones with the notches in the handles). They didn't hold up well for me, but maybe you'll have better luck with those.
 
I like old tools. I have a bunch of old hand tools from Grand dad. My Dad was willed a huge drill press/mill machine from him. My Dad died 6 months before Grand dad did. My Aunt, the Executrix, just recently told me that it was mine. Problem is I think the tool shed was built around this monster. It a huge machine. The drive mechanism is a hand crank, but has an inertia wheel that appears to be able to hook up a belt drive, and it has "gear shift" levers. The table can be engaged to move 2 axis, the drill head can be engaged to move vertical. I really think it is an old milling machine, but even while standing there drop jawed gawking at it, I can't understand how to make it work more than one axis at a time. The shed only has a couple light bulbs and the electric was turned off years ago. I can only go into the dark shed which only has one personnel size door. It's like a cave and smells like old oil and grease. I take lights in there with me, but its still like a cave and seems like the light gets sucked away into another time. I would have to remove a wall from the building to get it out, so it sets where it is for now. Someday I want it to be in my shop, even if just for looks and conversation.
 
I should have took pic of everything I got. There was probably 20 wood paddle bits . Hole saws. A coffee can full of drill bits. Several cold chisel and punches. 10 or 12 rattail and triangle files. A tape measures and hammer in every box. Sockets ratchets and at least 100 end wrenches from 1/4 to 1 1/4" most of them craftsman 20 or 30 screw drivers wire brushes and lots more small stuff. The day of the sale I saw all of the the boxes laid out and knew he was going to sell choice on them. I started the bid at 2.50 and when it got to 5 no one else bid. He asked which box I wanted and I said all of them. There were several jaw drops and a few walked away I was expecting them to go for 12 to 15 bucks each.
 
I love auctions like that. The jaw drop expression in that situation is priceless, but hey if you snooze you lose. The most popular auctions here locally is a lady owned business. I graduated high school with her. During her normal "speech" routine, giving instruction and rules, at the beginning of each auction she will remind everybody "ain't no friends at auction" :lol:
 
Here is another jewel I found in a bucket of junk I bought a while back.
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A little oil and a wire wheel and they cleaned up nice. Still pretty sharp and the blade does not have any nicks.
 
Nice find.

I have a pair of Kleins in every truck. Linemen toss them when they get a little dull. If they had to buy them they wouldn't do that. The cut barbed wire just fine. Love having two pair when I splice.
 

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