Everything is taking longer than expected.
During our Road-Kill emulation segment, there was a trailer left behind by a friend who's since passed on.
We had to force entry into the trailer and inventory the contents for distribution and sale.
Florida is hard on things which have no climate control.
Ian had thousands of dollars in precision measuring equipment, carefully arranged in plastic bins.
Now there's a couple dollars of scrap metal because of rust.
It's very sad.
Ian was, apparently, unaware of the concept of a sunk cost fallacy.
Many of his power tools, while fine quality and fully functional... aren't usable in the USA because they're made for British power. Everything has a BS1363 plug and is rated for their 230v 50hz instead of the (obviously) far superior 120v 60hz power.
Unloading this stuff and making piles of keep, pawn and toss took far longer than expected...
This constant repeating myself does nothing to speed the endeavor.
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So sorry to hear about your task, but it is a pity you did not post of this dilemma before "tossing" stuff. Many here in USA have our shops wired for 220 and on top, those like myself, have UK, German and Argentine outlets mounted on the wall for exactly this reason. I run British plug tools as well as service things from other countries. What tools do you still have? As to rust, that too is treatable if not too severe, there are some very good products that remove rust and leave pristine metal (albeit pitted if the problem is severe).
ReplyDeleteWe had no notice that we were doing this and one day to clear it out.
DeleteWe didn't need duplicates of many of our tools in UK standards and the local pawn shops refused to take them: so junk because we also had no place to store them until we stumbled across someone who wanted them.
The rusted precision measuring tools were ruined by the level of rust on them.
We pawned a lot of the normal tools with rust on them.