The repurposing thread
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Beerhippie
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This style of brush, made for cleaning copper fittings for sweating,
works really well with the handle cut off. I first started doing that when having to make dozens or hundreds of sweat joints a day, but now I use those brushes for all kinds of cleaning. The wire is stout and wound tightly enough that the brushes don't "shed" even when running the drill in reverse. They come in all common pipe sizes--the OD of the brush is 1/8" larger than the nominal copper pipe size.
For cleaning female threads, I'll run the brush in CW and bring it out CCW.
atch
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That's just a pic I stole from the web. I don't remember where I got mine, but I do remember that I've gotten them from more than one source. You're correct about the brass ones, but I very seldom use them. For most everything I do I use steel brushes.
They are incredible for cleaning dirty threads in nuts.
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gleman
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My old moving dolly got two repurposings.
The wheels went to my file cabinet a few years ago.
I kept the stretchers, thinking they may come in handy "one day".
Yesterday was that day!
I needed an adapter for a cargo basket for my bike. I have a seat and wanted to make the basket easily removable.
Some glue, screws, stain and Velcro has me sorted out.
The wheels went to my file cabinet a few years ago.
I kept the stretchers, thinking they may come in handy "one day".
Yesterday was that day!
I needed an adapter for a cargo basket for my bike. I have a seat and wanted to make the basket easily removable.
Some glue, screws, stain and Velcro has me sorted out.
InsanePyro
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Update on Cargo Bob. After searching high and low for a decent priced somewhat still solid truck bed and coming up dry, I decided to take the one from my long dormant F350
Miss the Pontiacs
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Does this count as repurposing. I had to take out some cedars to put in a rear door in my attached garage for access to my backyard garage. My wife loved those trees as she could see the birds while resting in them. This clump is a few more feet over but you get the idea. She said she had no problem with the building of the garage but missed her cedars. I cut them down and saved the limbs. If you follow my garage thread you have already heard the story.
I trimmed them up with my bandsaw and saved the outer slabs. The core pieces will be used for a bench down the road.
I debarked the slabs and decided to use them on a book case for the lake. Hit them with 4 coats of Watco oil and laid them out as pictured. The 3 separate pieces will be tied into the top. The 2 limbs will probably go on the sides
All lumber except the 2x4s were recycled from the old boathouse at the lake. Will have a completed pic when installed but that won’t be for a month or two yet.
I trimmed them up with my bandsaw and saved the outer slabs. The core pieces will be used for a bench down the road.
I debarked the slabs and decided to use them on a book case for the lake. Hit them with 4 coats of Watco oil and laid them out as pictured. The 3 separate pieces will be tied into the top. The 2 limbs will probably go on the sides
All lumber except the 2x4s were recycled from the old boathouse at the lake. Will have a completed pic when installed but that won’t be for a month or two yet.
cpttuna
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The great thing about re-purposing is the ability of the human mind to thing of some other way to use what is in your hand or sitting in front of you. it may take a few minutes to come up with an idea ,but the rewards are great
Skyman
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It's also gratifying to find ways to keep useful things out of the landfills.
WordMan
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Tuna cans. Purchased the lids off Amazon. We use a can opener which doesn't leave a sharp edge. Cans are lined, won't rust easily, and the lids fit nicely. Great for storing small parts, and as we give the cats a bit of tuna each night (two cats get meds in theirs), we get new cans regularly.
WillyBoy
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Now there's a product I didn't know existed ^^^^^
WordMan
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Skyman
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Tuna cans. Purchased the lids off Amazon. We use a can opener which doesn't leave a sharp edge. Cans are lined, won't rust easily, and the lids fit nicely. Great for storing small parts, and as we give the cats a bit of tuna each night (two cats get meds in theirs), we get new cans regularly.
That's a nice looking Elgin.
WordMan
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Thank you.
That's a size 12s. I also have an 16s Elgin B.W. Raymond railroad grade, and a 16s Zenith Chronometer grade.
cpttuna
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I have nerve damage in both hands as a residual from open heart surgery. I have dropped 6 drinking glasses at the kitchen table while eating. Our drinking glasses now are old hamburger dill chip pickle jars.Tuna cans. Purchased the lids off Amazon. We use a can opener which doesn't leave a sharp edge. Cans are lined, won't rust easily, and the lids fit nicely. Great for storing small parts, and as we give the cats a bit of tuna each night (two cats get meds in theirs), we get new cans regularly.
ObnoxiousFumes
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Good to know. My mom used to have a bunch of (maybe Tupperware?) lids that happened to fit tuna cans, but I didn’t know they made these too.Tuna cans. Purchased the lids off Amazon. We use a can opener which doesn't leave a sharp edge. Cans are lined, won't rust easily, and the lids fit nicely. Great for storing small parts, and as we give the cats a bit of tuna each night (two cats get meds in theirs), we get new cans regularly.
Skyman
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Thank you.
That's a size 12s. I also have an 16s Elgin B.W. Raymond railroad grade, and a 16s Zenith Chronometer grade.
Those are some fine specimens.
WordMan
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Those are some fine specimens.
Thank you.
I got the size 18 to service so I might learn how to work on watches (the size makes it a lot easier). The 16s is running and accurate.
beelsr
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I "decided" to F my hands up by falling 14 feet onto them. I have learned to tuck my pinky underneath anything I pick up so it doesn't just slide right through and smash when the gravity b*tch grabs it.
Shootinok
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Beerhippie
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I think I still have a couple of those handles out in the boneyard. Let me know if you want to be able to use the current handle as a wrench again.
Wow, sorry about the nerve damage (won't go into a thread tangent, but my mother had something similar happen to one of her legs during a "simple" procedure.") It can be truly devastating and life-changing.
But, over the past few years, I've noticed that some restaurants think it's hip to serve drinks in Mason jars.
Mike
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we have lots of mason jars in several sizes from all of the canning and sauces that we make from the vegetable garden. We reuse them for canning, but we always have some un-used laying around, so I use them to drink out of all the time.
The Bean
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This is a piece of a branch from an azalea bush that died. The wood is extremely dense and strong. Have you ever tried to cut up an azalea? Anyway, I made it into a tool for pulling oven racks out. The wife loves it. It is also handy for pulling those Aldi pizzas off the rack and onto a wooden cutting board.
Didn't cost me a penny.
Didn't cost me a penny.
Sweetcorn
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I thought for sure that was an atlatl thrower.This is a piece of a branch from an azalea bush that died. The wood is extremely dense and strong. Have you ever tried to cut up an azalea? Anyway, I made it into a tool for pulling oven racks out. The wife loves it. It is also handy for pulling those Aldi pizzas off the rack and onto a wooden cutting board.
Didn't cost me a penny.
Beerhippie
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Putting a newly cleaned and painted vise and my bench anvil to work:
for clamping a glue job.
for clamping a glue job.
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I hadn't noticed until I read this that I do the same. I think it's because I had bad carpal tunnel syndrome for years. Surgery helped a lot, but the habit apparently stuck.
In the South, Mason jars for drinking have been hip for at least 50 years
Beerhippie
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In the inland West, too.
PugetDude
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Started in 1920 with Prohibition.
Beerhippie
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You can always recognize a 'shiner by the crease in the bridge of his nose.
Well that makes sense. First place I saw them being used was in a "Sounthern BBQ" restaurant.
Up here in Massholetopia, I'm sure no actual Southerners were involved in creating the restaurant or its menu, LOL...
Mike
Beerhippie
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When the Mason jar became "hip" was when they started casting them with handles specifically for use as drinking glasses.
atch
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Lucky you. The only bed slats I come across look like they have been stored in a chicken shed with a leaking roof for the last 60 years.I salvaged these bed slats last fall during big trash day.
Some of them recently became trim for the garage attic access hatch I cut in when I needed to insulate the garage attic.
Old Man Roger
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Man, I never un watched this thread, but for some reason I haven’t been getting this thread in my watched list. Couldn’t even find it using the search function, I had to google search it. I got some catching up to do. Hopefully this post will put it back on my list.
Anyway, my repurpose this week was the booger blaster.lol I won’t post pictures, If you know , you know.
Edit- Figured it out. I had blocked the op so I wasn’t able to see this whole thread. Weird that it didn’t just block his posts, instead of the whole thread.
Anyway, my repurpose this week was the booger blaster.lol I won’t post pictures, If you know , you know.
Edit- Figured it out. I had blocked the op so I wasn’t able to see this whole thread. Weird that it didn’t just block his posts, instead of the whole thread.
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atch
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Took an old bbq grill brush that was worn out and made a table saw push stick. Didn't really need another one but it kept some stuff out of the landfill. All cuts on an old bandsaw that I keep around. No smoothing or finishing; just utility. Shown next to the orange "store-bought" one.
