Scott NC Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 Imagine 50 years from now. Everything vintage will be made of plastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 There is a good bit now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 I'll be working those angles Thomas, Deb is on a quest to meet spinners and such, she already has Wool Gathering in her sights. Meeting up with steel wool couples will be sweet win wins! Scott: that reminds me of the opening audio of WKRP in Cincinnati, "Genuine plastic, accept no substitutions!" Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les L Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 22 hours ago, JHCC said: Oh, but it gets better. Oh, so now you’re going to rub it in? Great food, I would love to have a place like that in my area to go to, but it would probably cause a lot of problems at the house, so I’ll just have to look at your pictures and wish Das, great finds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Got going later than I wanted to the fleamarket today. I'm sure I missed some deals. I love dollar tables. Big straight pein sledge was $5. My buddy works on small engines so I picked up the flywheel holder for him. The rest was a dollar or less each. Then i heard someone saying everything is free so now I have a large cloths hamper and a box to go through mixed with toys, tools, pans and other misc. stuff. I didn't like carrying it clear across the fleamarket to the car but hey it was free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 On 7/30/2022 at 2:39 PM, Scott NC said: Imagine 50 years from now. Everything vintage will be made of plastic. If ya think about it half the stuff made 50 years ago was made outta plastic, that woulda just been in the 1970s, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 That quote will probably follow me to my grave. Mcdonalds Happy Meal Toys will be around long after I'm gone.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 Lol your probably right Scott! a thousand years from now a new Indiana Jones will be digging up a structure an find happy meal toy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 Speaking of history. Today 07/31/22 is George Jetson's birthday. The show premiered today in 1962 and George mentioned he was 40, so today would be George Jetson's 100th birthday. Amazing what you learn watching the news eh? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 Might be true! we got robot vacuum cleaners now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kdash Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 A few months ago I bought a 2 shelves full of items from a local museum auction for $25 each. It was online and some stuff was hard to identify with the pics provided. There was this one set of items I thought looked cool and bought the whole shelf just to see what it was. It's a pipe wrench. I have never seen anything like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 That's a neat one Kdash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 Very cool. A few too many parts for convenience, but less scarring of the pipe from toothy jaws. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 Those are a type of what we called "pipe tongs," they won't shift like a Stilson type pipe wrench. We used them to break casing joints that didn't want to unscrew, back it laying on the ground in a 48" pipe tong and use another 48" pipe tong with a 6' cheater and two 200lb. guys jumping on it to break the lock. If it was an unbound joint we used a pipe wrench and cheater while hanging in the tower but if that didn't work we laid it on the ground and used the tongs. Jumping on a Stilson type pipe wrench resulted in too many bruises and sprains when the jaws turned and slipped. I haven't used one of the ones in the picture but I have a couple somewhere in the tool resource pile. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad J. Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 Got a guillotine and a jig for S Hooks off Esty, very nice construction and got here a week early, then my shipment of grinder belts came in. My oldest is supposed to be here with her boyfriend today and I've been trying to clean up so that it doesn't look like I've been neglecting the house. I don't dare take the stuff out to the shop. I'll end up starting up stuff out there instead of cleaning my kitchen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les L Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 That’s the kind of mail box I like to open! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 Christmas in August! Isn't cleaning the Kitchen one of the reasons you had kids, Chad? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad J. Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 My kids are both in their 20's Frosty. I have considered hiring someone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 The first 18 years were the easiest… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 You never stop being a parent! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 Scrapyard run today with a couple of other smiths, total out was a bit over 200#. My share was 56#; including: an implement wheel (other one was snagged by my buddy for a tong rack), old thick rasp, piece of angle iron to make my 25# LG motor mount from, Al tray to soak hammer heads in BLO, some dome headed bolts for dishing with, small bearing race---52100, homemade dent puller---heavy wall pipe for a bending jig, and lastly a 12" Lodge cast iron skillet in excellent condition; now to get it cleaned and re-seasoned before Quad-State, it will fit on the propane stove perfectly and I expect a bit of bacon and a mess of eggs, not to mention pancakes will get cooked with it! Cost of my share was US$11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 Wow Thomas. We even get a picture today? Good scrap picking as usual. That cast iron will be good. They don't take a lot to clean up and re season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 I'm suffering scrap yard envy once AGAIN. <sigh> Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 Yes, I've got a number up on the shop wall as I keep finding more than we use in the kitchen. We tend to use the 100 year old cast iron as they are lighter than the modern ones. This Lodge one will probably end up going with a chuckwagon cook set later this year unless someone talks me out of it at Quad-State Sunday after breakfast... The cast iron bean pots and dutch ovens are on the shelves but the wall currently has 12 pieces, not counting the latest. The latest I spotted today in a scrapped washing machine---I like to go through stuff folks have scrapped to see what goodies are hidden away, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 I picked up a beautiful old cast iron skillet at a yard sale some years back for five bucks. It was in horrible shape, so I gave it a wire-wheeling to remove the crud prior to re-seasoning. At literally the very last second, it slipped out of the vise and crashed to the floor, shattering into half a dozen pieces. Sic friatur crustum dulce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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