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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

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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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