Sad news!

Could you not advertise each item on the Classifieds, on here?

Howard

Try Ebay with say a timeline of 1 week, maybe collection only for your convenience then contact the workshop clearance companies who will obviously give you bottom $.

Tony

As you realise the clearance types will be used to fleecing widows and hoping to make £50 an hour for their time. One possibility is contacting your local club about the small stuff as there will be lots of guys who want a few small bits but not a whole lathe and they will not be after making a fat profit, just something for club funds. My club often buys a deceased member's small tools and materials to sort out and sell at our club show, or at regular meetings.
Some selected items might also be of interest to aeromodellers, car, radio ham etc clubs.

When you sell each machine advise the buyer you will have other relevant small stuff available when they call as they can save the postage. For example nobody wants to pay £1 for a single MT drill when the postage is another £2.50, but may pay £1.50 when they are there already.

Sorry to hear about your predicament.

There are a couple of "workshop clearout" companies that advertise in the back of MEW. You might be best to call them with a list of the major items you have and see what kind of price they are willing to offer and see how that compares with your expectations.

I've been through similar situations when moving from one country to another, several times. It's always going to be a trade-off between price and convenience in a situation like yours. Dealers have to make their living out of it so are not going to give you full retail market value. If you're lucky, you'll get half of that. Sometimes less. So it depends on which is most important to you, the money or the time it would take to sell it all off separately at market value.

When negotiating a price with a dealer, don't let them know you have a deadline to move out etc or they know they have you by the short and curlies and the price drops accordingly. Just say you are considering  your options, getting older etc etc.

I would definitely enquire at your local club as suggested already too. Sounds like you have good kit and surely there must be plenty of interest in it at the right price. Just make it clear the price includes them doing all the grunt work loading etc!

Edited By Hopper on 03/08/2017 13:47:47

No kids that you could clutter up their garage for a few weeks?

Perhaps a short let on a local lockup garage? or cheap rent a Box storage.

Be a shame (and very annoying) to sell up if it turns out you don't need to after all.

All good John!

I've had a look at properties in the Sheffield / Chesterfield area recently and it is surprising what can be had for modest outlay

I hope your search is fruitful

Cheapest and best of all, where I live , North-east Lincolnshire.

Super ME club too.

Hello John,

That's a bit of a roller coaster ride, I hope you find a suitable home to move into without too much hassle.

Neil

Hi John.

Sorry to hear about you misfortunes I only came across your post because I did a search for "Warco VMC" as I am considering buying one.

How about temporary self-storage until you find a new place? Not the cheapest option but surely cheaper than selling kit you've spent time modifying and setting up at a loss and starting all over again. There are plenty of self storage places here in Nottingham, or even rent a garage for a few months.

Hope you manage to get it all sorted.

Steve.

David Standing – If anything happens to me I am sure my good lady would appreciate knowing which "shysters" NOT to approach.

If you have the time could you PM me with their details – much appreciated. Thank you.

Rik

Edited By Rik Shaw on 04/08/2017 09:33:46

Firstly I do hope it all works out well for you John, it sounds more promising than your opening post.

Secondly I think in that posting your dilema on here was a good idea, I have found nothing but good advice and genuine, friendly and helpful people on this forum.

Thirdly, I still don't understand why (generally) there are no facilities available localy for would-be engineers and machinist's to get hands on experience with lathes etc, maybe local ME clubs could approach local college's and universities and eventually sort out some sort of facility. Or maybe there is??

Great news John.

Russell