Foots , just order a DAMN chuck !!

I'm thinking he's starting to drag this project out a bit.

I can understand a certain satisfaction in getting something broken to work again. But a chuck? Don't you have chores to do or something? :eyebrow:

trolled the local pawnshop last night and passed several >20 drills, many of which were the characteristic red/black of the Milwaukee brand. I bet you can find a whole rig, for parts, for cheap at a pawnshop.

I used to check out local pawnshops, but the prices were always far higher than they should be, and the stuff was real beat up. I avoid pawnshops now.

price on tag is starting point for haggling. Sometimes they start the haggling. true story.

I used to do internal tech support for a pawn shop corporation. Roughly 99% of all tools in a pawn shop are stolen from worksites by laborers.

Really.

If they've got such solid evidence, they must get a buttload of tools, since offering stolen merchandise for sale is itself a crime, and the shelves are always well stocked. What do they do in the case that they suspect a tool is stolen? Decline to "loan" against it? Take it anyway?

They make it a habit not to suspect anything that isn't blatantly thrown in their faces. Plausible deniability. If someone walks in and says, "Yeah, I want to pawn this item that I stole--er, I mean, I want to pawn this item," then yes, they would decline to give any money for it, probably under the pretense that they already had too many on the shelves.

There's really no recourse to prove that a powertool is stolen anyway, it's not like the construction contractor is going to have the serial numbers of dozens of tools written down, or visit every pawnshop looking for them when one is stolen.

And there is that one percent, every once in awhile you do get a small-time contractor pawning his own tools for cash--but you can tell they're legit because they always come get them back. Things for sale in a pawnshop are by definition the things that people never came to get back.

I imagine it's like at Guitar Center, when I want to buy used gear and it's on "police hold"
- meaning they can't sell it to me for thirty days from when it comes in, just in case.

Same effect but a pawn shop has to hold things so the person that pawned it has a chance to reclaim it by paying the money back....plus interest. :cool:

It's what I work on when I sober up.

99% is a pretty rough figure. Had they been accurate I bet they could narrow that down to 99.5%;)

I actually have a new chuck in the drill and have been using it all summer. I still ahve the pieces on my bench and they look at me reproachfully. I thought you all were being kept awake at night wondering the outcome of this project.

Jeepers guys, I thought we could all bond over tools.:(

"please mr. pawnbroker, tell me what do those three balls mean on your wall? he said: 'that means, it's two to one, buddy, you never get your shit back outta here at all.'";)