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Hot take: I bought a $300 knee kicker from a guy at a flea market because it 'just needed a new pad'.
Turns out the whole tension spring assembly was shot, and fixing it cost me another $180 and two afternoons of my life. Anyone know a good supplier for reliable used tools in the Midwest?
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david_jones387d ago
A flea market knee kicker is a serious gamble (I've been burned before too). The real kicker is the guy said it just needed a pad, that's a classic line. Spending almost two hundred more and losing a whole weekend on top of the first price is brutal. For used tools around here, I've had better luck at estate sales than flea markets, the stuff is usually from a real shop. Sometimes the local paper's classifieds turn up decent gear from retiring tradesmen.
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patricia_gonzalez7d ago
But what if the gamble is part of the fun? I love the hunt at flea markets, even with the risk. Sure, you get burned sometimes, but finding a tool you can actually fix up feels way more rewarding than just buying something ready to go. That weekend I spent fixing my last find taught me more about the tool than any manual could. Sometimes the story and the fix are worth the extra hassle.
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ryan_shah387d ago
Read a forum post about a guy who found a decent used table saw at a farm auction, said the key was getting there early to talk to the family running it. They told him exactly what was wrong with it, which was just a worn belt. That kind of honest info seems way better than the flea market guesswork.
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