• Scam Alert. Members are reminded to NOT send money to buy anything. Don't buy things remote and have it shipped - go get it yourself, pay in person, and take your equipment with you. Scammers have burned people on this forum. Urgency, secrecy, excuses, selling for friend, newish members, FUD, are RED FLAGS. A video conference call is not adequate assurance. Face to face interactions are required. Please report suspicions to the forum admins. Stay Safe - anyone can get scammed.
  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Ontario GTA West area meetup is planned for Saturday April 26th at Greasemonkeys shop in Aylmer Ontario. If you are interested and haven’t signed up yet, click here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

Selling machining inserts

Matt snow

Brand New Member
Hey everyone my father passed last year and we found he had a small collection of brand new machining inserts and other tooling. I'm trying to find if there is somewhere in the calgary area that would buy them for a fair price. My mom just doesn't have the time to sort through, look up prices and try to sell individually. Here is a sample of what i am talking about.



Thanks for looking
 
Nice of you to post here. I'm sure someone will want them.

On a side note, I'm sure it is a pain to sell stuff like this when someone passes away. There really should be a society or group that handles this for widows so they don't get taken advantage of. When I go Gods know what my wife will do with all my tools.
 
The insert are much more marketable if you have the holders for the inserts. I'd be happy to come down and help you sort the thing out as to values, etc. - it will only take a few minutes.The resale value depends on the size of the inserts. If you only have the inserts and not the holders, it will me much harder to sell them. So far I've paid about 1/2 retail when buying privately - from kijiji, etc for new stock that fit the holders I have.

If I go, my wife knows the names and contact details for my machining friends so they can help her sell the stuff off and not give them away. Groups like this can really help.
 
Back
Top