SuburbGuy
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What do those multiple stickers inside on the doors say? Are they related to the business where you got the cabinet from?
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Provincial
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I got the cabinet from a private seller, but the stickers are OSHA-related ID's for spray paints and other flammable contents. No doubt required by OSHA and/or the State Fire Marshal. Oregon requires businesses to report what flammables/hazardous materials they have on site, as well as their locations.
BlueBomber
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Nice find, Provincial. I can't beat you on price (You ****), but I can beat you on weight.
Today, SWMBO and I drove up into New Hampshire to pickup some "landscape timbers" to rebuild some raised garden beds. The ones I'd previously built from untreated 2x lumber about 4 years ago have all rotted away, and we decided this time to use treated wood. The seller advertised the timbers as 7' long and 6"x8" at $12 apiece. I offered her $10 each if I could buy 48. She said yes--the deal was struck!
She then texted back to relay that her hubby said they were 120 lbs EACH and that I should plan two or three trips. Well, first off, that's...(did some calcs)...holy ****: 5760 lbs!!! I have a 3/4 pickup truck with a 6-liter gas engine, but there's no way I could put that much in the bed. The place was 75 miles away, so I picked up a 5x8 Uhaul trailer and away we went.
The timbers turned out to be ex-guard rail posts that had not been in the ground very long. The seller says these were some of the best he's ever gotten. He had a forked loader to help with bringing them to the truck, which was great because I think they were a bit more than 120 lbs. We put 20 in the bed and 28 in the trailer and then stopped at a gas station to air up the tires after I saw how low they were squatting. We made it home without incident, although this was probably the hardest I've ever worked that truck! Fortunately, my 250-lb son has been home from college and helped unload.
I'd like to get the raised bed built before Mothers Day.....probably not gonna happen if I want the boy's help. May have to wait until after graduation.
Today, SWMBO and I drove up into New Hampshire to pickup some "landscape timbers" to rebuild some raised garden beds. The ones I'd previously built from untreated 2x lumber about 4 years ago have all rotted away, and we decided this time to use treated wood. The seller advertised the timbers as 7' long and 6"x8" at $12 apiece. I offered her $10 each if I could buy 48. She said yes--the deal was struck!
She then texted back to relay that her hubby said they were 120 lbs EACH and that I should plan two or three trips. Well, first off, that's...(did some calcs)...holy ****: 5760 lbs!!! I have a 3/4 pickup truck with a 6-liter gas engine, but there's no way I could put that much in the bed. The place was 75 miles away, so I picked up a 5x8 Uhaul trailer and away we went.
The timbers turned out to be ex-guard rail posts that had not been in the ground very long. The seller says these were some of the best he's ever gotten. He had a forked loader to help with bringing them to the truck, which was great because I think they were a bit more than 120 lbs. We put 20 in the bed and 28 in the trailer and then stopped at a gas station to air up the tires after I saw how low they were squatting. We made it home without incident, although this was probably the hardest I've ever worked that truck! Fortunately, my 250-lb son has been home from college and helped unload.
I'd like to get the raised bed built before Mothers Day.....probably not gonna happen if I want the boy's help. May have to wait until after graduation.
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And now for something a bit different. A couple of years ago, my Dad picked up this Lionel O-gauge #204 engine, which is from c. 1940, for maybe $15 from a flea market we frequent. With some free time on my hands lately, I've spent the last few weekends giving it an overhaul. The motor is over-engineered, so all the train needed was new motor brushes, cleaning, lubrication, repair of connections to the light bulb socket and the contact shoe pickups on the bottom (one piece of the 80 year old cloth-insulated wire finally gave up its magic smoke).
Should be able to get another 80 years out of it.
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Should be able to get another 80 years out of it.
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d42jeep
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nice find on the timbers. bet it was this seller? https://newlondon.craigslist.org/grd/d/belmont-landscape-ties/7099247128.html
trying to find the same deal somewhere in the CT area. no luck so far - they were around last year, must have sold out with everyone doing outdoors projects this spring
duddly
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Wow! that SK box is mint!
SuburbGuy
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Hope you're only growing ornamental plants and not food plants in those raised garden beds. With CCA-treated landscape timbers, CCA stands for copper, chromium, and arsenic. Copper and chromium are heavy metals and arsenic is poisonous.Nice find, Provincial. I can't beat you on price (You ****), but I can beat you on weight.
Today, SWMBO and I drove up into New Hampshire to pickup some "landscape timbers" to rebuild some raised garden beds. The ones I'd previously built from untreated 2x lumber about 4 years ago have all rotted away, and we decided this time to use treated wood. The seller advertised the timbers as 7' long and 6"x8" at $12 apiece. I offered her $10 each if I could buy 48. She said yes--the deal was struck!
She then texted back to relay that her hubby said they were 120 lbs EACH and that I should plan two or three trips. Well, first off, that's...(did some calcs)...holy ****: 5760 lbs!!! I have a 3/4 pickup truck with a 6-liter gas engine, but there's no way I could put that much in the bed. The place was 75 miles away, so I picked up a 5x8 Uhaul trailer and away we went.
The timbers turned out to be ex-guard rail posts that had not been in the ground very long. The seller says these were some of the best he's ever gotten. He had a forked loader to help with bringing them to the truck, which was great because I think they were a bit more than 120 lbs. We put 20 in the bed and 28 in the trailer and then stopped at a gas station to air up the tires after I saw how low they were squatting. We made it home without incident, although this was probably the hardest I've ever worked that truck! Fortunately, my 250-lb son has been home from college and helped unload.
I'd like to get the raised bed built before Mothers Day.....probably not gonna happen if I want the boy's help. May have to wait until after graduation.
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garthg
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I posted this on the vise thread already but it fits pretty well here too
After finishing up my Morgan 160 last week, it dawned on me that I didn’t have a place to put it. Destined to have it be my main user, I searched for a new HD place to mount it to.
it was free!
6ft long, 36” deep, 38” high, 1/4” plate top.
Will work perfectly in my garage! I was even able to salvage most of the built in wood bench that was there previously to make the lower shelf.
I think I'd mount the vise on the front left-hand corner, or the right rear, since that right front corner is going to be in the way of a lot of work when you don't need the vise.
Just my opinion.
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CCA-treated lumber was phased out from consumer products around 2003, but is still used in some commercial products. You could check NH highway department material specs online, I would think. If you ARE using them for food garden, I would look into it.
The main concern is arsenic, which is persistent in soil and human tissue, as well as being easily absorbed. (Perhaps you will recall a recent concern over the high levels found in some region-specific rice, often fed to babies as rice cereal.)
The newer consumer lumber continues to use copper and/or chromium, but despite their toxicity, they are not readily absorbed by the body.
There is a chromium atom at the center of every iron cluster in every molecule of chlorophyll on earth, so if you’ve been eating green plants...still, it’s a VERY small amount that we eat, and as stated, we don’t absorb it readily.
Copper water pipes, copper utensils, copper jewelry, electric wires... not so alarming either, really. As copper is a strong growth inhibiter in plants, the plants close to the timbers will be dwarfed, so you probably wouldn‘t eat much from them anyway. For landscaping, that’s a bonus: less weeding around edges formed by PT lumber.
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Outlawmws
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Tym, nice restore on the train!
And this folks is one of the reasons I enjoy this place so much, even when I can't go pickin' for
What's that, the Five Stages of Tool Envy?
d42jeep
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Not a true garage sale, but........
Haven’t been to a live auction since Feb 29th which is a looonnng dry streak for me. Have seen many promising sales either canceled or indefinitely postponed since then.
Anyway, saw an “antique and collectible” sale advertised on a local online auction site. Because of the title, I hadn’t bothered to look it over. The lots began closing Friday evening and I decided to check it out. There were quite a few tool lots with only one or two bids submitted. I placed a bid on the first lot that caught my interest, and won the lot. I bid on several more lots and won about 3/4 of the lots I bid on.
Greenfield tap/die set in wood box. $5.25
Simplex #83 railroad jack. $3.75
3 pairs of DeWitt Vise Grips. $4.67 / pr.
SnapOn #21 snap ring pliers. $1.75
Box including Craftsman starter wrench, 2 Craftsman screwdrivers, small OTC puller, etc. $1.25
Box including Craftsman ignition wrench set, Spede hone, Proto nut driver, Lectrolite DOE wrench, etc $1.25
3 ton hydraulic floor jack $4.25.
Nice way to break up a drought.
Haven’t been to a live auction since Feb 29th which is a looonnng dry streak for me. Have seen many promising sales either canceled or indefinitely postponed since then.
Anyway, saw an “antique and collectible” sale advertised on a local online auction site. Because of the title, I hadn’t bothered to look it over. The lots began closing Friday evening and I decided to check it out. There were quite a few tool lots with only one or two bids submitted. I placed a bid on the first lot that caught my interest, and won the lot. I bid on several more lots and won about 3/4 of the lots I bid on.
Greenfield tap/die set in wood box. $5.25
Simplex #83 railroad jack. $3.75
3 pairs of DeWitt Vise Grips. $4.67 / pr.
SnapOn #21 snap ring pliers. $1.75
Box including Craftsman starter wrench, 2 Craftsman screwdrivers, small OTC puller, etc. $1.25
Box including Craftsman ignition wrench set, Spede hone, Proto nut driver, Lectrolite DOE wrench, etc $1.25
3 ton hydraulic floor jack $4.25.
Nice way to break up a drought.
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madison069
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So as I've mentioned in past post, I've just been picking up mowers from the street on trash day and so far has turned 7 of them into easy profit. I do basic tuneup and cleaning of the mowers, fix whats wrong with them which has been mostly gummed up carb and dirty sticky linkages on auto throttle systems. Repalce air filters and plugs along with sharpen blade and change the oil even if its the no oil change models.
Several units I've flipped so far,
Before picture
After pics,
A Honda i sold recently, nice mower but previous owner mistreated it. Took a little time to get the self propeller working but it was working like a charm when I sold it.
The before pic of the Honda
This one im fixing up for the kid who cuts my yard. He is currently using my mower and asked if he could buy it. I said I got something in the work for him. This one is newer then the mower I got and should serve him well when I get the little spring for the self propeller handle.
I recently stepped up to riding mowers, I was wanting the Scott mower mainly cause its made by John deere, but he made a deal of $100 for both and I figured why not. I haven't messed with them yet cause I've been busy with the kitchen remodel. But they will get looked at soon.
I've also enlisted my middle daughter's help with these mowers. Hopefully she learns some things and remember them later on in life. But for now she just wants the money,
Either way, no estate sale here so this is how I've been keeping busy in the hours I can't work on the kitchen.
Several units I've flipped so far,
Before picture
After pics,
A Honda i sold recently, nice mower but previous owner mistreated it. Took a little time to get the self propeller working but it was working like a charm when I sold it.
The before pic of the Honda
This one im fixing up for the kid who cuts my yard. He is currently using my mower and asked if he could buy it. I said I got something in the work for him. This one is newer then the mower I got and should serve him well when I get the little spring for the self propeller handle.
I recently stepped up to riding mowers, I was wanting the Scott mower mainly cause its made by John deere, but he made a deal of $100 for both and I figured why not. I haven't messed with them yet cause I've been busy with the kitchen remodel. But they will get looked at soon.
I've also enlisted my middle daughter's help with these mowers. Hopefully she learns some things and remember them later on in life. But for now she just wants the money,
Either way, no estate sale here so this is how I've been keeping busy in the hours I can't work on the kitchen.
seber
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I bought a Scotts new many years ago. It still runs like a top. New deck bearings and belts every now and again plus standard maintenance. I don't use it musch any more since I have a 54" garden tractor.
jeepinerdeep
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I have one not as nice I got for free. I painted it tan and use it to store my mower gas and weed killers in the carport.
And yes, those suckers have some gravity in them. Bout did me and my pops in.
I was looking for red Snap On KRA-15 wrench rails (missed a couple) and finally found one for $20 on Ebay. NOS.
Did not want to cut it - I eventually want to replace bottom Kennedy with vintage Snap On box.
Will keep looking - hopefully will find another 1-2 for a good price eventually. SO sells black ones, but red ones are NLA
Reorganized my wrenches (Craftsman, SK, Buffalo Barcalo, Husky and couple of large ones live in other locations...)
Did not want to cut it - I eventually want to replace bottom Kennedy with vintage Snap On box.
Will keep looking - hopefully will find another 1-2 for a good price eventually. SO sells black ones, but red ones are NLA
Reorganized my wrenches (Craftsman, SK, Buffalo Barcalo, Husky and couple of large ones live in other locations...)
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MercLSU
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Picked up an early Delta scroll saw and Grizzly 2HP dust collector today for $200. The dust collector included a bunch of fittings, hoses, and a separator which not all are pictured. As much as I'd love to keep the Delta I'll probably sell it / the retirement light separately to pay for the lot. Doesn't look great in the pictures but it runs like a top with no noise and really just needs the table to be cleaned up.
Not sure if I should feel good about a free dust collector or be mad that I'm getting rid of yet another Delta / Delta Milwaukee / Delta Rockwell / Rockwell product that I hold in such high regard. Then I remind myself of the Hegner 22" scroll saw I picked up last year that hasn't gotten much use.
Continuing on the free train, this week I've picked up a set of 10K lbs car ramps, six tackle boxes with some misc. tackle, a nice wagon (given to the neighbors), myriad mowers / weedeaters / edgers / pressure washers / chainsaws, and some sweet LSU gear (you love Joe Burrow / Burreaux). Quarantined or not, glove up and see what your neighbors are throwing out as they're stuck inside and SWMBO (or HWMBO) says it's time to clean the "junk" out.
Not sure if I should feel good about a free dust collector or be mad that I'm getting rid of yet another Delta / Delta Milwaukee / Delta Rockwell / Rockwell product that I hold in such high regard. Then I remind myself of the Hegner 22" scroll saw I picked up last year that hasn't gotten much use.
Continuing on the free train, this week I've picked up a set of 10K lbs car ramps, six tackle boxes with some misc. tackle, a nice wagon (given to the neighbors), myriad mowers / weedeaters / edgers / pressure washers / chainsaws, and some sweet LSU gear (you love Joe Burrow / Burreaux). Quarantined or not, glove up and see what your neighbors are throwing out as they're stuck inside and SWMBO (or HWMBO) says it's time to clean the "junk" out.
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I had a Delta scrollsaw like that for a few years. My grandfather had it from, I think, a retired dentist, for as long as I can remember. There was an epoxy repair to something in the head. Most of my grandfather’s tools were second-hand and damaged in some way. I acquired it nearly twenty years ago (well before my GJ enlightenment), so despairing of improving on the failed repair, I dropped it off at the recycling center, along with the working motor and retirement lamp. Pretty sure a box of 1930s S\O sockets went the same way. These are the regrets that fuel my later-in-life militant tool hoarding.
Actually, I do not comprehend the attraction to retirement lamps. In my admittedly limited experience of them, they are dim, useless ornaments. Can anyone shed some light?
Actually, I do not comprehend the attraction to retirement lamps. In my admittedly limited experience of them, they are dim, useless ornaments. Can anyone shed some light?
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I've been searching for one of these tool cabinets for a few years. While this one doesn't look like it, it's got some military provenance. There's still a coat of olive drab inside the drawers. This one is going to get cleaned up and repainted if necessary.
Was located only an hour away and well worth the drive. These cabinets are bulletproof.
Was located only an hour away and well worth the drive. These cabinets are bulletproof.
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ChiefBeef
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Those sturdy old scroll saws are excellent for running modified hacksaw blades. Good for getting nice cuts without a metal bandsaw.
Slower than cold molasses, but hey, needs must when the devil drives, right?
Private Lugnutz
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And as heavy as a tank! I congratulated over on the Metal Cabs thread.
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Nice UAIU. There are two of these for sale locally on CL here for going on 2 months. Missing the tops. They're down to asking $200 each at this point. I'd think seriously about it if they were wanting half that price.
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Nice find on the Delta scroll saw Merc and with a retirement light no less! I'd love to have one of these. Is it missing the belt guard?
Not a dentist I'd want to visit!
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madison069
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I've read that they are decent mowers, so hopefully this one turns out to be good after some maintenance work on it!
Corvid19 been good to me - I've been branded "essential" so I'm still working, - but no estate sales going on! I've sold a bit of my estate sale surplus on duhBay and I can see a little more daylight in the abode! Even made a profit on some of it. MOAO is glad!
d42jeep
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I bought this early S-K partial 3/8” deep socket set on eBay and it came with this unusual holder. Obviously intended for S-K sockets with their unique mix of longer and shorter deep sockets, I can’t find any reference to it in any S-K catalog. I’m hoping that somebody has some information on it. I added some other S-K sockets to it to see it filled up.
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Never heard the term "retirement" before - care to shed some light?
It shows up in your picture, and I have the solution. Replace the original bulb with an LED. I like the Sylvania "100w" 4000K bulbs. They actually put out the tons of light- same as a tungsten 100W, but only draw 14W, so they don't get hot. Good for elderly wires!
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bmwrd0
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An acquaintance of mine sent me this, which I am most happy with:
bmwrd0
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That specific lamp type is referred to as a "retirement lamp" as they go for such good money on eBay that you can (jokingly) retire on them.
And I am with you on using LED's for old lamps. My house is old with many added on bits to the circuits from previous owners, that it is really helpful to keep the wattage on any line as low as possible.
I got a very specific image from the typo, LOL!
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jvlyons99205
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Picked up this batch from eBay for $27.95 with the shipping with Blackhawk, Walden Worcester, Barcalo, K-D and Milwaukee Tool and Forge.
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Outlawmws
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You guys lost me on the "retirement lamp" topic and even looking back didn't get me there..
Link or pic?
And 100% on board with LED conversions for old/vintage/antique lamps! One I have the switch (even after cleaning/rebuilding) gets HOT... LED's solved that
If you had cheaters like I wear (eyewear), you’d have lit on the topic in MercLSU’s photo.You guys lost me on the "retirement lamp" topic and even looking back didn't get me there..
Link or pic?
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Outlawmws
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Got it - thx LS!
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