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| John Stevenson:
--- Quote from: bogstandard on February 15, 2009, 04:13:31 PM ---Over the years, I have always let friends and aquaintancies know what I get up to in my shop. Whilst doing so, I always tell them that I am on the lookout for decent bits of materials, as long as it isn't just tiny bits of junk, almost anything goes. I wonder what will turn up next week? Bogs --- End quote --- ME :lol: JS. |
| bogstandard:
You've got a wicked sense of humour John. :lol: I've now got to go and change my trousers, spilled coffee all over them when I read your reply. Bogs |
| Bernd:
Tell me, do they do oversea delivery? :) Bernd |
| John Hill:
I have long been recogised as a bone fide junk collector and we live not too far from the local landfill. In the good old days, before the Council made the landfill all 'safe', friends would take a load to the landfill then if they say anything they thought I might like they would pick it up and drop it off as they drove near our house. Of course a lot of it I had to take back the next week! But some was real gold! Around about 1980 I rescued an old radio transmitter destined for the scrap, it stood about the size of a modest wardrobe and had become obsolete. People who knew me told me about it and made the arrangements. I collected it from its place of installation and hauled it home to stand in the corner of the garage now occupied by my lathe. When the lathe arrived I searched the web for a new home for this thing and found one in America. Now the transmitter is in two crates about to be loaded on a ship and my bank account is richer by enough to pay for more than half the new lathe! :ddb: |
| Stilldrillin:
Our son is a care worker, at a local home. The other week, he showed up with an old wheeled zimmer frame for me! :bugeye: "I know I`m old, son, but"........ :scratch: "Well...... You said you wanted some sort of trolley wheel!" ::) That`s ma boy......... :clap: Can`t argue with his logic...... :thumbup: David. |
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