Things people throw in away without recycling

[olderisbetter]

During the week i got involved in moving an old shed but when i got there they were about to skip all the contents, old vices drills and two boxes of old tools, this has given me a good mix of imperial spanners as i foolishly gave many of mine away 20 years ago thinking i would only ever need metric.

[POMMReg]

Some people will get rid of stuff like this and next day go out and buy crap quality tools in nice new packaging!!

Superslim, Gordon tools, Leyland, Britool, King Nissan Micra and Snail Brand....as for Blackspur...

[Andy W]

Nice score..!

[bmcecosse]

Unfortunately I am faced with clearing my garages -and the amount of 'useful stuff' I have collected over the years is terrifying. I'm afraid a lot of it will end up in the tip.... You did well there!

[olderisbetter]

bmcecosse, some items i bring home are made into ornaments or garden features, never underestimate what you have and what it can be used for, arty folks will make all sorts of things from parts, if you look at the tools on my bench you can see a blue coloured old leg vice which going to be used as a industrial window dressing prop in a shop, if you get stuck with interesting rusty or odd parts sell them on ebay as "retro" parts for art projects.

[bmcecosse]

Aye well - my time is short - and all the packing and posting on ebay etc is a bit tedious.... I will offer anything of genuine usefulness on here where I can....but the market is a bit limited!

[olderisbetter]

Well its good of you to put parts here, and yes Ebay is a pain and i rarely use it now, If you get really stuck you can always weld all the bits you have left together and claim it is a sculpture, just call it something artistic like
" My Life In Metal " and ask for £20,000 you never know some collector might just feel it works.

[moggiethouable]

One mans junk another mans treasure.

[olderisbetter]

One mans junk another mans treasure.

Now if only you can convince a wife of that saying..

[moggiethouable]

The other great saying being "it will come in handy if it never gets used"

[IaininTenbury]

bmcecosse, some items i bring home are made into ornaments or garden features, never underestimate what you have and what it can be used for, arty folks will make all sorts of things from parts, if you look at the tools on my bench you can see a blue coloured old leg vice which going to be used as a industrial window dressing prop in a shop, if you get stuck with interesting rusty or odd parts sell them on ebay as "retro" parts for art projects.

Someone gave me one of those enormous blacksmith type leg vices a few years ago. I dragged it into the workshop and leaned it against the bench where it stayed till one day I was working at the bench and just saw it starting to fall over towards me. didn't move fast enough and it landed on my foot which was then large and interestingly coloured for a week or so after....
Still haven't fitted the vice, will try and palm it off as shop window dressing!

Looks a good haul of spanners etc by the way. Car boot sales are happy hunting grounds for me - all the makes mentioned above except Blackspur obviously....

[olderisbetter]

Iainintenbury, all the car boots near me seem to sell is new items, but i live quite close to the old Britool factory and after telling a neighbour about my tool find he has added a few spanners and sockets as he used to work at Britool many years back, I think it may have been a staff perk to bring a few bits home each week....and yes your leg vice could an make interesting window display or plant stand, I hope it was the thin end that hit your foot as you can see mines on the bench but i have it clamped above and a tie wrap round it, just incase it goes south.

[IaininTenbury]

Er no it was the heavy end. Like a twit I'd stood it up the right way up wondering where I could mount it, so it was balanced on its point.... I don't think I need to elaborate more

[sid]

i used to do a bit of skip truck driving,and managed to 'rescue' a few items..including an ancient bicycle,which i still have

[olderisbetter]

i used to do a bit of skip truck driving,and managed to 'rescue' a few items..including an ancient bicycle,which i still have

My skip finds have been very good, i have done up a few houses with the addition finds, alot of my furniture is used and the quality is just better than chipboard , and my find this week is a fold up low table with a formica top showing the CC41 utily furniture mark, ideal as a pic nick table for the back of my traveller.

[olderisbetter]

Another skip save, all these were going into a skip, its a mix of metric and imperial mainly new unused nuts and bolts, i have found a space for quite alot of them, but there is a bag of random nuts and bolts left thats i will put up in the free section if anyone wants them.


These below are now bagged and free if anyone wants to collect them from Wolverhampton. the keys are just to get a scale