late spring clean

Escapee · 30-08-2004, 16:36

I am having a spring clean today to make room for some work around the house. I have been clearing out a small room that is supposed to be a pantry, I have been amazed at the valuable and some missing things that I have found.

10 litres of white Road Marking paint
New boxed BOC Nitrogen regulator and gauges
2 bl**dy big variable capacitors from a very high power transmitter.
New 5 Litre container of WD40 (Been looking for that about 3 years)
2 new polls of Mig welding wire
5 Litres of new unopened "Yellow" hammerite paint. (ordered specially)
115V compressor
New Transmission Jack (still in box never used)
Reliant Regal steering box
Bond Bug steering box
24 rolls of cloth tape (thrown out by old company 10 years ago cos useless)
1 very large roll of new winch wire. (Tank towing size)
new trailer jockey wheel (bought it urgently about 6 yrs ago for some reason)
Toolbox full of Whitworth Spanners!
4 Leak Thruline Mono FM tuners (collectors items I promised to someone about 18 months ago but couldn't find them)

I have just scratched the surface so far, I'm sure there will be some more gems.

If I hadn't wasted all that money on these things, I could of spent it on something usefull like Beer and Women.

paulyoung666 · 30-08-2004, 16:52

are you a closet skip rat

Escapee · 30-08-2004, 17:04

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Originally Posted by paulyoung666

are you a closet skip rat

yep!

I also found a reduction gearbox, like the one I was looking for in another thread about the gates.

Didn't know I had that either, the most alarming bit is it looks like it has been stripped down cleaned and the oil changed.

Did I do that?

Is my memory going

paulyoung666 · 30-08-2004, 17:06

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Originally Posted by Escapee

yep!

I also found a reduction gearbox, like the one I was looking for in another thread about the gates.

Didn't know I had that either, the most alarming bit is it looks like it has been stripped down cleaned and the oil changed.

Did I do that?

Is my memory going

whats that van doing outside your house with men in white coats in it

Escapee · 30-08-2004, 17:10

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Originally Posted by paulyoung666

whats that van doing outside your house with men in white coats in it

Dont know, perhaps I will blast them with the unopened 10 litre container of machine mart grit blasting stuff I have just found in the corner.

I also stubbed my toe on a 20 inch diameter 4 jaw lathe chuck, I remember buying it as a bargain. trouble is my lathe will only swing 11 inches!

escapee scours the free ads for a larger lathe weighing about 2 tons to make use of his large lathe chuck.

PS: I'm not as bad a smy grandfather, he left here 12 months ago and I'm still throwing his rubbish out.

**Russ** · 30-08-2004, 17:13

All together now....

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No VAT,
Money back?
No Gaurantee
Black or white?
Rich or poor,
We'll cut prices at a stroke......"

**Maggy J** · 30-08-2004, 17:14

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Originally Posted by Escapee

Dont know, perhaps I will blast them with the unopened 10 litre container of machine mart grit blasting stuff I have just found in the corner.

I also stubbed my toe on a 20 inch diameter 4 jaw lathe chuck, I remember buying it as a bargain. trouble is my lathe will only swing 11 inches!

escapee scours the free ads for a larger lathe weighing about 2 tons to make use of his large lathe chuck.

PS: I'm not as bad a smy grandfather, he left here 12 months ago and I'm still throwing his rubbish out.

Sell it on eBay

MetaWraith · 30-08-2004, 17:15

I dont see sticky back tape, egg boxes or other traditional "Blue Peter" type items.

I'm wondering what sort of contraption uses 5 litres of WD40, Tank Towing wire, and a Reliant Steering Box.

Is Escapee a closet escapee from such programs as Scrap Heap Challange.

Escapee · 30-08-2004, 17:26

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Originally Posted by Incognitas

Sell it on eBay

A typical womans view, don't you realise it may come in handy one day!

Anyway if the ex-Girlfriend hadn't gone in there and stashed it all "NEATLY"

I would of know it was there.

Is Escapee a closet escapee from such programs as Scrap Heap Challange.

I sometimes dissapear into my workshop and reappear with something made out of the bits that is still a load of scrap!

greencreeper · 30-08-2004, 17:32

You sound like my dad

He keeps jars

He often gives me one to take home. I'm not joking. His favourite phrase is, "It'll come in useful". Yeah but when? My mum's as bad - she keeps old magazines and leaflets, including bus timetables. The scary thing is that I've found myself doing similiar things - thinking "Oh that'll come in useful". Noooooooooo. Save me.

Theodoric · 30-08-2004, 17:36

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Originally Posted by Escapee

I am having a spring clean today to make room for some work around the house. I have been clearing out a small room that is supposed to be a pantry, I have been amazed at the valuable and some missing things that I have found.

10 litres of white Road Marking paint
New boxed BOC Nitrogen regulator and gauges
2 bl**dy big variable capacitors from a very high power transmitter.
New 5 Litre container of WD40 (Been looking for that about 3 years)
2 new polls of Mig welding wire
5 Litres of new unopened "Yellow" hammerite paint. (ordered specially)
115V compressor
New Transmission Jack (still in box never used)
Reliant Regal steering box
Bond Bug steering box
24 rolls of cloth tape (thrown out by old company 10 years ago cos useless)
1 very large roll of new winch wire. (Tank towing size)
new trailer jockey wheel (bought it urgently about 6 yrs ago for some reason)
Toolbox full of Whitworth Spanners!
4 Leak Thruline Mono FM tuners (collectors items I promised to someone about 18 months ago but couldn't find them)

I have just scratched the surface so far, I'm sure there will be some more gems.

If I hadn't wasted all that money on these things, I could of spent it on something usefull like Beer and Women.

Why a nitrogen regulator? My recollection of nitrogen cylinders is that they are very big, extremely heavy and full of, er, nitrogen. To provide an inert atmosphere for the welding, perhaps?

paulyoung666 · 30-08-2004, 17:38

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Originally Posted by Theodoric

Why a nitrogen regulator? My recollection of nitrogen cylinders is that they are very big, extremely heavy and full of, er, nitrogen. To provide an inert atmosphere for the welding, perhaps?

nah , you want argon for that

Escapee · 30-08-2004, 17:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by greencreeper

You sound like my dad

He keeps jars

He often gives me one to take home. I'm not joking. His favourite phrase is, "It'll come in useful". Yeah but when? My mum's as bad - she keeps old magazines and leaflets, including bus timetables. The scary thing is that I've found myself doing similiar things - thinking "Oh that'll come in useful". Noooooooooo. Save me.

I inherited it from my grandfather, he used to keep the centres from toilet rolls, jars, McDonalds straws (usefull fro blowing swarf on the milling machine)
Fairy liquid bottles (usefull to make funnels and plastic washers) lolipop sticks (not sure) and basically anything that someone else had thrown out.

You should see our back garden, it was really bad until I filled two skips with metal. Most of it was rusty old angle iron from beds. He also had a very large collection of bolts, the ones used to hold rails together through the fishplates. I am slowly getting rid of stuff but its hard going, he used to bring things back in the house when I threw them out so he could remove all the screws and put them in jars.
I have found things that I threw in the bin years ago and he took them back out.

My mates from the radio club think its great, they come here with a shopping list and useually go away with a big handfull of electronic components, screws, nuts, bolts etc.

Escapee · 30-08-2004, 17:42

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Originally Posted by Theodoric

Why a nitrogen regulator? My recollection of nitrogen cylinders is that they are very big, extremely heavy and full of, er, nitrogen. To provide an inert atmosphere for the welding, perhaps?

It is used to blow out air spaced coax, first you use a compressor and then nitrogen to expell all the moisture. Some commercial transmitters have continuous nitrogen pumped into the coax to keep moisture out.

See they are usefull.

Theodoric · 30-08-2004, 17:43

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Originally Posted by paulyoung666

nah , you want argon for that

Sounds right. I suspect that a welding arc would be hot enough to combine the nitrogen with oxygen to form nitrogen oxides, which wouldn't do the welder any good.