billjustbill
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About 10:00 a.m late Saturday morning, we went late to a family run estate sale. You know it's family run when you find Sterling salt and pepper shakers with round 25-cent stickers on them. It was just outside the city limits on a deceased grandfather that was truly a hoarder....
What was left behind was the Textbook Example of "You Can't Take It With You...."
See the pics below, but, "Me? No, I'm Not A Hoarder" spent $30 on another Square D outside AC/DC disconnect for my solar project...old and NEW Ridgid pipe wrenches, pipe vises and tubing cutter, and over Five 5-gallon buckets of stuff. After waiting for more than an hour in the pickup, I loaded up my finds, and took my patient wife home, got a quick bite to eat as I changed into cleaner and rougher butter-soft old bluejeans and a T-shirt, and "Me, No I'm Not A Hoarder" went back.... Spent almost 3 hours going into the house and garage, then 5 different outbuildings with side awnings. Underneath them, each side was stacked high and deep.
I had to laugh because on each building there was a sign nailed to the doorway that read:
"ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK"
When all was said and done, the lady came over and gave me a price. $40 more for more brass and copper fittings, a half bucket of old vacuum tubes, a real portable console vacuum tube tester complete with Instruction book, heavy-wall 2" conduit, new/dusty 100' roll of 3/4" flex conduit, old tools and a brand new 4" rotary drilling head, a tall thick plastic rolling trash container filled to the top.. and several buckets of much more,,,,etc......
New and Almost new tools: 2 Hardy Board specialized skill-saw blades, Ridgid pipe wrenches, Stanley Black Max level, small Pony table mount vise, Ridgid 1/2"-1-1/4" pipe vise, air powered buffer, 2 Lincoln 10lb sealed metal tubes of Lincoln 5/32 by 14" rods: one for stainless and one for general welding. Still on the same table: One explosion proof light fixture, two old "Walker" car jacks pat'd in 1924, an antique Crescent brand nail puller, an old rusty water well drilling bit and in a box, a brand new 3-3/4" rotary drilling head (green) worth $150.
Tubing cutter, flaring tools, 100' of 1/2" Armor flex conduit, about a dozen of "Kent" heavy brass water meters (shaped like old style copper floats), 4 sealed containers of solder flux, Short lengths of hardware cloth screen, half a roll of dual galvanized #12 un-barbed fence wire, aluminum/plastic radiator, Old garden tools, wooden basket half full of electrical conduit mounts, 16' of heavy chain, square aluminum and set of 5 square aluminum & titanium-roller casters (never saw ones like these before). Two half filled buckets of brass 90* elbows for plastic tubing, brass cutoff valves, copper fittings and ball & gate valves.
But at 3:35 Sunday morning, Thunder awakened me and bright flashes came through the curtains. Like being poked awake with a broomstick, I was reminded that with some bargains there is a price to pay. I remembered all those buckets of "treasure" were uncovered. So, with the lightening, wind, and beginning rain, using large leaf bags to cover each and every bucket, I finished and brought in the new items and old vacuum tube tester...
Went back on Sunday afternoon and spent another $10 for two more 5 gallon buckets so full, I had to carry each one alone..... Copper and brass fittings mixed in with dirt and leaves. But, there's just one letter difference, and yet, a world of difference between "Scrap and Crap".
It will take me until Labor Day to get all this sifted, sorted, and sold....
Bill
What was left behind was the Textbook Example of "You Can't Take It With You...."
See the pics below, but, "Me? No, I'm Not A Hoarder" spent $30 on another Square D outside AC/DC disconnect for my solar project...old and NEW Ridgid pipe wrenches, pipe vises and tubing cutter, and over Five 5-gallon buckets of stuff. After waiting for more than an hour in the pickup, I loaded up my finds, and took my patient wife home, got a quick bite to eat as I changed into cleaner and rougher butter-soft old bluejeans and a T-shirt, and "Me, No I'm Not A Hoarder" went back.... Spent almost 3 hours going into the house and garage, then 5 different outbuildings with side awnings. Underneath them, each side was stacked high and deep.
I had to laugh because on each building there was a sign nailed to the doorway that read:
"ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK"
When all was said and done, the lady came over and gave me a price. $40 more for more brass and copper fittings, a half bucket of old vacuum tubes, a real portable console vacuum tube tester complete with Instruction book, heavy-wall 2" conduit, new/dusty 100' roll of 3/4" flex conduit, old tools and a brand new 4" rotary drilling head, a tall thick plastic rolling trash container filled to the top.. and several buckets of much more,,,,etc......
New and Almost new tools: 2 Hardy Board specialized skill-saw blades, Ridgid pipe wrenches, Stanley Black Max level, small Pony table mount vise, Ridgid 1/2"-1-1/4" pipe vise, air powered buffer, 2 Lincoln 10lb sealed metal tubes of Lincoln 5/32 by 14" rods: one for stainless and one for general welding. Still on the same table: One explosion proof light fixture, two old "Walker" car jacks pat'd in 1924, an antique Crescent brand nail puller, an old rusty water well drilling bit and in a box, a brand new 3-3/4" rotary drilling head (green) worth $150.
Tubing cutter, flaring tools, 100' of 1/2" Armor flex conduit, about a dozen of "Kent" heavy brass water meters (shaped like old style copper floats), 4 sealed containers of solder flux, Short lengths of hardware cloth screen, half a roll of dual galvanized #12 un-barbed fence wire, aluminum/plastic radiator, Old garden tools, wooden basket half full of electrical conduit mounts, 16' of heavy chain, square aluminum and set of 5 square aluminum & titanium-roller casters (never saw ones like these before). Two half filled buckets of brass 90* elbows for plastic tubing, brass cutoff valves, copper fittings and ball & gate valves.
But at 3:35 Sunday morning, Thunder awakened me and bright flashes came through the curtains. Like being poked awake with a broomstick, I was reminded that with some bargains there is a price to pay. I remembered all those buckets of "treasure" were uncovered. So, with the lightening, wind, and beginning rain, using large leaf bags to cover each and every bucket, I finished and brought in the new items and old vacuum tube tester...
Went back on Sunday afternoon and spent another $10 for two more 5 gallon buckets so full, I had to carry each one alone..... Copper and brass fittings mixed in with dirt and leaves. But, there's just one letter difference, and yet, a world of difference between "Scrap and Crap".
It will take me until Labor Day to get all this sifted, sorted, and sold....
Bill
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