billjustbill
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After the 4-drawer wide file cabinet and the strongbox were found last weekend setting next to a dumpster, I went back Sunday. It's the end of the month and someone must clearing out and leaving their storage bay.
I found in the same "Lockbox" Treasure Dumpster, more interesting finds. Items, again, more of history and past lifetimes than of great worth....
First, setting against the back of the large metal container, I found two "new" old stock tires wrapped with clear, yellowed, crumbling and brittle wide cellophane tape with a aged paper I.D. ring of paper. Each unused tire had a unique look, the once very dressy WIDE whitewall and stamped "Firestone" tires. Are they worth anything? Needing a good brush-washing, the tires probably are too old to use, but should cleanup maybe for someone having an old wheel or wheel-size hubcaps for a "man cave" or garage sale....
Also, a late 1940's-1950's ham radio made from a large kit type.... an individual transmitter and a receiver unit that used vacuum tubes in their day.
The first pictures are of the auto window air conditioner from the 1950-60's. With some dusty surface rust, it appears to be in good enough condition to be filled with water and used. There is a cotton cord with a knot in the end that is still soft and flexible. It all works, by pulling it, a slight spring tension is felt as it originally rotated a wire drum cover with a "swamp cooler air conditioner straw pad". It gets wet in the water-filled tank. When the knotted cord is let go, a spring spins back the straw pad for a second dip....
I found in the same "Lockbox" Treasure Dumpster, more interesting finds. Items, again, more of history and past lifetimes than of great worth....
First, setting against the back of the large metal container, I found two "new" old stock tires wrapped with clear, yellowed, crumbling and brittle wide cellophane tape with a aged paper I.D. ring of paper. Each unused tire had a unique look, the once very dressy WIDE whitewall and stamped "Firestone" tires. Are they worth anything? Needing a good brush-washing, the tires probably are too old to use, but should cleanup maybe for someone having an old wheel or wheel-size hubcaps for a "man cave" or garage sale....
Also, a late 1940's-1950's ham radio made from a large kit type.... an individual transmitter and a receiver unit that used vacuum tubes in their day.
The first pictures are of the auto window air conditioner from the 1950-60's. With some dusty surface rust, it appears to be in good enough condition to be filled with water and used. There is a cotton cord with a knot in the end that is still soft and flexible. It all works, by pulling it, a slight spring tension is felt as it originally rotated a wire drum cover with a "swamp cooler air conditioner straw pad". It gets wet in the water-filled tank. When the knotted cord is let go, a spring spins back the straw pad for a second dip....
