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[VicParticipant @vic]

Yeah, I’ve got something like this! 😆

[MikeKParticipant @mikek40713]

Yes, but it’s not organized…So I question its importance.  To me, it’s a junk drawer, or bin, where you throw things that you think you’ll one day use and never do.

Mike

 

[MikeK]

On MikeK Said:

Yes, but it’s not organized…So I question its importance.  To me, it’s a junk drawer, or bin, where you throw things that you think you’ll one day use and never do.

 

 

Looks like that to me too. The good news is that when you eventually come to your senses, there’s no need to do anything but tip it into a real bin and use the space for something worthwhile. This is especially important when every drawer/box/shelf/floor/building you have looks like that.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Or your relatives put it in ebay as “lathe parts – M?yford Boxford” starting price £50.

[Bazyle]

On Bazyle Said:

Or your relatives put it in ebay as “lathe parts – M?yford Boxford” starting price £50.

Possibly prefixed with “RARE VINTAGE”. hehe

Mike

 

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Reminds of one day many moons back, at the workshop my society used to rent.

Members would donate things they thought the club would find useful… we all know the inverse-proportion laws apply, especially with one chap, a member for only a couple of years or so. He was a metalwork teacher who imagined we could use second-hand soluble-oil and hacksaw blades with the centre three inches totally blunt. Since the club’s stock-in-trade material included old bed-frames, perhaps not. Then on this day, he was up-staged:

Someone turned up with one of those foot-cube tins that shops like Woolworths used to sell sweets or biscuits in, and which made ideal cases for ‘Primus’ picnic-stoves. So having dated the story…

He’d been given this rather battered specimen by a friend clearing a shed, possibly post-mortem. Like that storage-box in the photo, it was full of come-in-handy fastenings and unidentifiable metal something-or-others, but mostly too rusty for any decent work.

When we tipped the lot out onto a bench and started to salvage the perhaps-useful from the totally-useless, we were shocked to find a couple of dozen revolver rounds among it all. Luckily another member at the time was a Police Officer, and he happened to be present as I recall. He removed them for proper, legal disposal.

We never discovered why that box of rusty old tat had live ammunition mixed up in it… and we did not want to know!

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Chap in our club died a few years back and we helped clear his workshop. Turned out the revolver was legal as it was classed as a historic firearm, but we had to get rid of the bullets. The local police didn’t want the paperwork and suggested I threw them in the nearest flash, so there they went.

For those who don’t know, a flash is a lake/pond caused by mining subsidence. Those from salt mines tend to be deep, as the salt was in thick beds.

[JAParticipant @ja]

This is what every one should try to avoid. It has more value, very little, to the scrap man than you.

There was a vertical shaft at Doonray into which all sorts of radioactive rubbish was dumped many years ago. It has cost £millions to clear and clean.

JA

Edit – Know what is junk and don’t collect it.

[Andrew TinsleyParticipant @andrewtinsley63637]

I must be an exception, I frequently use items from my junk barrel.

Andrew.

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