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Not sure what these were originally (light fixtures?), but I think there’s enough sheet metal in them to cobble together side panels on a spark catcher for the torch cutting table I made the other day. One man’s trash….

Yes, those are reflectors for 4" fluorescent lights, the tube contact / carriers extended around the ends in the little gap. The white knobs were either key type locks or screws. I'll bet the recycling centers and dumps are filling up with these and the rest of the fixtures.

I saved my old reflectors a newer style in hopes of adapting them to LED strips. I didn't want to spend the extra money to buy the adapters to use LED strips in the old fixtures.

Frosty The Lucky.

The white knobs appear to have internal threads on the other sides; I think they were used to attach the lights to hanger bolts. Should come in handy one of these days. 

Studs are on the fixture casing holding the ballasts, wirings, etc. That lets you screw the fixture to the ceiling and wire it to a junction box the cover it with the reflector. I've seen male screws and key hole latches from different makers. 

Frosty The Lucky.

Well, it’ll all be cut to bits and welded back together in a new configuration within the next few days anyway. 

My old ones are going to the scrapyard, bulbless of course.

I haven't thrown any of my old fixtures away yet but I don't have too many in the house to start with. The one built into the ceiling in the kitchen is going to be a hassle regardless. The shop is too cold in winter for fluorescents so there aren't any. The LED strips are great I just need reflectors, I'm thinking of buying white rain gutter, it's cheap, UCH cheaper than LED reflectors.

Your old reflectors should come in handy John. I think welding and torch spatter might really stick to the enamel paint, though anti-spatter spray might do the trick.

Frosty The Lucky.

Anti-spatter spray is great stuff and deserves to be its own food group. 

Great Stuff and anti-spatter spray are different products and I wouldn't recommend eating either of them. In fact, I think both cans have the number for poison control on them. 

Giving either one its own food group might be sending mixed messages. 

Is it Poison Control or if you ring it does it get answered as "Center for Evolution Studies, please wait till we have a grad student needing a thesis topic."?

37 minutes ago, Frazer said:

Great Stuff and anti-spatter spray are different products

Very true: one is to stick things together, and the other is to keep things from sticking together.

Great stuff is great at sticking. Which, consequently, makes it bad for laundry..

Laundry, hands, tools, floors, ladders… It is great stuff as long as you are good at only getting it where it’s supposed to be.

But we should STRIVE for good stuff being everywhere! Who in their right minds would want "okay" stuff if GOOD were available?

Frosty The Lucky.

I had a can of Good Stuff follow me home today, my new place has a guest next to the chimney

My shipment from Aldo's finally arrived! 4 bars of 1084 and 2 bars of 15N20. Now to try to make Damascus billet over the weekend for fun. See if I can manage to catch myself on fire again.

Hope you succeed!  (With the billet...)

Be sure to clean the mill scale prior to welding.

Isn’t Good Stuff still illegal at the federal level, or is that The Good Stuff?

Will cleaning the scale off make him catch fire more easily? 

ATF should be the name of a convenience store chain.

Frosty The Lucky.

 a friend was cleaning up his shop and gave me this little bitty table clamp vise thats built a lot like a post vise. Not really practical for anything I do but I still thought it was pretty neat. 

Twistedwillow, that is too cool. Love it. 

I used to use one like that attached to my travel forge. Good for twisting 1/4" sq stock---my usual teaching material when I'm on the road.  Now I have a travel post vise and the small one is hanging on the wall of my shop.

 

Thank you BillyBones!
Thomas do you have any pictures of yours I’ve never seen any other like this until now?                          Does anybody have any clues to who may have made these? Or were they hand made? I’ve been dragging home vises of all sizes, shapes and types for years but I’ve never seen anything like a mini post vise before. this one will hang on the wall in my shop with all the other rusty treasures that I’ve accumulated, but I’d still like to know any info about it if anyone knows anything.