03-28-2018, 01:02 PM
Unfortunately the nice looking used sets on ebay are priced accordingly. Still cheap compared to the cost of NEW but still more than I want to spend on a set for home use.
As it stands now I've purchased 3 partial sets with mixed or missing blocks and I think I can put together one complete matching set from them. I have one good storage case from the bunch that cleaned up nicely and now I need to start going through cleaning and inspecting (as best I can) each of the blocks, then picking out the best ones to make up my set.
In the end I think it will be worth it because I will have one nice clean set for reference which was all I was after. But now it looks like I will have a second 'working' set of mixed gages as well, plus a lot of extras left over.
My total out of pocket (after the partial refunds from 2 sellers) is $280 for the 3 sets I bought. If my one good set turns out as nice as I think it will, I feel it would have been worth the effort. Not that I would want to repeat that effort mind you!
As it stands now I've purchased 3 partial sets with mixed or missing blocks and I think I can put together one complete matching set from them. I have one good storage case from the bunch that cleaned up nicely and now I need to start going through cleaning and inspecting (as best I can) each of the blocks, then picking out the best ones to make up my set.
In the end I think it will be worth it because I will have one nice clean set for reference which was all I was after. But now it looks like I will have a second 'working' set of mixed gages as well, plus a lot of extras left over.
My total out of pocket (after the partial refunds from 2 sellers) is $280 for the 3 sets I bought. If my one good set turns out as nice as I think it will, I feel it would have been worth the effort. Not that I would want to repeat that effort mind you!
Willie