Working for a guy for a few days installing a home office.In he comes with a cup of tea & sees me using my 12v Makita drill driver.Conversation about Makita stuff follows & a few minutes later he returns with a Makita 14:4v combi, two batteries & a smart charger all about a year old, looked hardly used. "Is this of any use to you?" he asks.The chuck had apparently jammed & he couldn't be bothered to have it repaired, so he bought a Hitachi lithium jobby.I told him that a new chuck was a fairly cheap spare & that it was a good quality bit of kit, worth repairing.Wasn't interested at all - he gave it to me! Pleased to have it taken off his hands! Wouldn't accept a penny for it!I now have a nearly new free Makita 14:4v combi!!!Not a bad days work that!

house which was being converted into flats...top floor already hadoccupants.Anyway this guy in one of the flats was down on his luck and produced a TVtube rejuvenator along with different array of adaptors for smaller orlarger tube pins.He asked the same question"this any good to you" and I asked him "do youknow what it is?" he said no and I told him what it was and does,he repliedgive us a tenner and its yours.As I was into repairing TV's at that time I couldnt believe my luck,at thattime we were talking about £1800 for this piece of equipment and I madequite a few bob on zapping new life into peoples old CRT's at £20 a go.After I binned the TV repairing lark which was about late 80's I sold it onfor £200. :-)

Jammy or what?

Aug 21, 2007 22 Replies

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Andy Hall 18 years ago

As long as he's pleased with his job and the price and you're pleased with the price and the drill, it's a good outcome all round.

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Geoff Berrow 18 years ago

Message-ID: from Andy Hall contained the following:

Round here, if I was given an expensive item I'd have to check if it was warm to the touch. Fortunately, I move today!

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clot 18 years ago

Excellent, two happy folk. Not sure about the "won't take more than half an hour" - "shouldn't take more than half an hour". ;)

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