Off topic- Mountains of old sockets

[A2M2]

What do you do????
I have more than a few tubs, boxes, drawers, toolboxes and coffee cans of random sockets. I had my own, I wound up with a large box of them when I adopted an abandoned toolbox at work, and a mountain came from my wife's first husband, who past away and she wound up with them. He obviously had the same dilemma.
Of course... I'm missing all the sizes I actually need :facepalm:

What do you do???? I have a real serious problem with the idea of getting rid of ANY tool. You are supposed to acquire them, not part with them, kind of like guns... I really could use the space in the tool boxes and the shop tho-

Thoughts??

 

[matt167]

Re: Off topic- Mountains of old sockets

See how many sets you have of whatever, pair them and ebay them.. Make sure to keep the really good stuff like Snap On, Blue Point and SK if you have it..

No such thing as too many tools, but you can't use say 4 1/2" 3/8" drive shallow sockets at the same time, so really a toolbox should have ( at most ). One set of shortwell and one set of deepwell for each drive size in both metric and SAE.. If you have doubles, of any of that it really is wasted space. Of course there are instances where you need impact sockets, thinwall sockets ect..

 

[coolbri70]

Re: Off topic- Mountains of old sockets

sell or trade for sizes you need use for fishing sinkers, arts n crafts or use as smoking devices place in ashtray use as cigar snuffer, sell em at hippie festival

 

[jerryjerry05]

Re: Off topic- Mountains of old sockets

I usually never throw away any tool.
I made the mistake of selling a table saw once.Needed it 1 month after selling
Take a 3ft 2x4 and use drywall screws.The 1 and 1/8th in. is long enough.
Drill a hole so it can be mounted to the wall.
Put the screws in the 2x4 about 1in squares.Angle them in.
The bottom of the board about 1 1/2in squares.
Then sort the sockets and put the big at the bottom and the small at the top.
Then if anyone wants to "borrow a socket" tell em here you go, take your pic.
Oh yea, I try not to loan tools.
I tell anyone who wants to borrow?? I need a $100 non refundable deposit.
But usually leaving their drivers liscense works.