| He who dies with the most stuff wins. | Long story short, Dad won.
Sorry to hear that.
| I'm sick of listing stuff on Ebay. I've been trying to settle the | estate for 3 years.
Recently the club I'm a member of (HCAM here in Austin, TX) was contacted by the widow of one of our own -- she was ready to do something with all his R/C stuff, and she had a whole *house* of it.
Our club ran an auction before a fly in. It took about 3 hours to auction off all the stuff, but it went very well -- she got several thousand dollars (seriously, he had a full house full of stuff) and we all got some good deals on lots of planes, tools and chargers (every lot had a charger or wal-wart of some sort, it seemed.)
I believe that she sent the club a check for about 1/3rd of the total, but I don't know if we kept it or not. Certainly, we didn't expect her to pay us anything.
Contact the local club. Especially if your dad was a member, they'd probably be more than willing to take care of all of it for you. And even if he wasn't a member, there's a lot of camaradre and many members may know of him. And they'd probably love to a chance to buy some of his stuff.
I could find more details, but that's really about all there is to it.