Frank Sronce wrote:
 > Gents, I just had a tool dealer over to the house last week to help 
with thinning out the pile.  (I am 83 and have way too many tools.) I 
sent him off with a truck load of tools.  It hurt my feeling to sell 
them for so much less than I paid for them, but I know the dealer will 
sell them to people who will put them to good use.
Frank Sronce (Fort Worth Armadillo works))

Frank, and I suspect a number of us,

I feel your pain. I've been wrestling with this for a while now.
There is another choice.
Find someone who has a desire to put them to good use and just give them 
the tools.
Seriously.
Nobody could afford to pay anything close to market value for the hoards 
we're sitting on. If you find a worthwhile purpose for them, then maybe 
it makes sense to pass the booty on intact. Make it a gift to a possible 
future.

Just my dos centavos,
Dave, STILL in Fairfax