That will come in handy one day.....

[Blobber]

I might have some exhausts...

A few tyres and alloys, its all technically for sale so I do have a bit of excuse!

 

[slim_boy_fat]

^^ To be sure, to be sure...

 

[Eric the chicken]

Not quite sure on the ‘technically for sale’ bit. My Mum always said everything comes in useful once in seven years, but never specified when the seven years started from.

 

[magnet]

Oh Yeah, tools & materials mostly. Just too many duplicates of some tools, such as vices.
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I have one of those ball vices like your green one this end on the back row. Really handy vices those do you know who made it? There is no makers mark on mine.

 

[cheb]

I tend not to nowadays. I used to be bad for it. I had an epiphany one day and put a full carrier bag of used 3pin plugs in the bin along with other crap. I still have a bucket (gas bottle) full of nuts and bolts, containers of washers, split pins various fittings ect. But that's where I draw the line.

I could need a plug one day. I doubt I'll ever need a hundred of them.

You did take the fuses out though?

My stuff tends to be sifted and sorted on a regular basis. The current provocation is my shed and workshop being clogged with other people's stuff. Not for much longer, but I've got a lot of tidying done.

What I try not to do is store unlabeled stuff nor small useful things still attached to big broken things. For the former think distibutor cap, the latter a water pump on a V8 engine with a holed block.

 

[MattF]

I have one of those ball vices like your green one this end on the back row. Really handy vices those do you know who made it? There is no makers mark on mine.

That's a Wilton on a power-arm(?).

 

[Stueeee]

I rescued one of those Imps out of a skip (where else doI spend my time.) but the bit wher it would screw to the bench top with wood screws, is missing. What would be my chances of ‘nailing’ something to the broken casting? It looks so sorry for itself with just the screw clamp.

Being as it isn't a huge casting, I think I would braze that, preferably with a manganese bronze rod. Never had a failure with brazing iron, even where it's been 'difficult' like a cylinder head repair which needed a huge amount of pre heat.

 

[qwakers]

And thats only the little stuff...

now im home and can look through pictures...

thats HALF of the big stuff, at this point the rest of the bench hadn't been built yet...

 

[Stueeee]

thats HALF of the big stuff, at this point the rest of the bench hadn't been built yet...

You obviously need the rest of the bench, the existing bit is full up!

 

[Alan Reynolds]

Being as it isn't a huge casting, I think I would braze that, preferably with a manganese bronze rod. Never had a failure with brazing iron, even where it's been 'difficult' like a cylinder head repair which needed a huge amount of pre heat.

Thanks. I’ll give it a go.

 

[Barking Mat]

Half of my stuff is at work, half is at home, most of it is in my old workshop, and some of it is on a trailer in the garden.

Don't quote my maths.

Oh and then there's the BMC engine graveyard, and the Detroit diesel, and the vehicles in the barn and garden.

Must scrap / sell some, but I don't want to.

They're good vehicles, just need, time, money and work.

Is it sadly delusional to think that once the concrete floors are in and the four post lift erected, life will be plain sailing ?

Fed up with working on earth floors, that's for sure.

One day.

 

[minimutly]

Half of my stuff is at work, half is at home, most of it is in my old workshop, and some of it is on a trailer in the garden.

Don't quote my maths.

Oh and then there's the BMC engine graveyard, and the Detroit diesel, and the vehicles in the barn and garden.

Must scrap / sell some, but I don't want to.

They're good vehicles, just need, time, money and work.

Is it sadly delusional to think that once the concrete floors are in and the four post lift erected, life will be plain sailing ?

Fed up with working on earth floors, that's for sure.

One day.

Ai, there comes a time when it's just not fun. But, given I think I'm a few years older than you @Barking Mat , here's my advice - as you get older you will have less time, not more. I'm not entirely sure why this is, maybe family issues, maybe you just can't get through work like you used to when young. Either way, try not to store up too many projects for later that you can't complete. Of course, I always heed my own advice....

 

[addjunkie]

Ai, there comes a time when it's just not fun. But, given I think I'm a few years older than you @Barking Mat , here's my advice - as you get older you will have less time, not more. I'm not entirely sure why this is, maybe family issues, maybe you just can't get through work like you used to when young. Either way, try not to store up too many projects for later that you can't complete. Of course, I always heed my own advice....

I think this is so, for me its been a gradual decline in delivery, but its happened quicker than I expected. Not sure its all physical either, the mind needs to deliver the drive too. I sold off all my bike projects, two reasons, they were in the way all the time and irritated me as there was no progress.

As for dirt or concrete floors, older knees are not suited to either. I now use 1/2 inch soft rubber mat when required.

 

[redlig]

I think this is so, for me its been a gradual decline in delivery, but its happened quicker than I expected. Not sure its all physical either, the mind needs to deliver the drive too. I sold off all my bike projects, two reasons, they were in the way all the time and irritated me as there was no progress.

As for dirt or concrete floors, older knees are not suited to either. I now use 1/2 inch soft rubber mat when required.

Rubber mats can be a mixed blessing .I find that they dampen the sound of things hitting the floor and add bounce so rendering the ,now lost , item untraceable.

 

[addjunkie]

Rubber mats can be a mixed blessing .I find that they dampen the sound of things hitting the floor and add bounce so rendering the ,now lost , item untraceable.

Yes but your knees will survive as you crawl about feeling for the bit as your eyes arnt good enough to see it!

 

[redlig]

Yes but your knees will survive as you crawl about feeling for the bit as your eyes arnt good enough to see it!

That's only half the problem .Having finally found the errant bit I then have the more difficult problem of standing up without pulling something else off the work top.

 

[MattF]

Oh and then there's the BMC engine graveyard, and the Detroit diesel, and the vehicles in the barn and garden.

Must scrap / sell some, but I don't want to.

They're good vehicles, just need, time, money and work.

The problem being, the longer you spend looking at untouched projects, (especially larger ones), the less inclined you become towards sorting them. Those weeks/months they may consume become better spent on the simpler, more meaningful things in life. This's why I don't tend to take on projects as such now. I don't have the space, granted, but mainly because I realise time is more meaningful.

It's like if I do tart something up, nowadays. That's exactly what I do. I doubt I'd consider a full strip down, & a nut & bolt level tidy up, unless on something small & simple. A functioning item is far more useful than a pile of bits, & you save time you can spend on other things.

Getting rid of the large, time consuming projects can actually be like a breath of fresh air. A weight off your mind. It's just the deciding to let them go part which is hard to do. Worthwhile considering though, IMHO.

 

[addjunkie]

Getting rid of the large, time consuming projects can actually be like a breath of fresh air. A weight off your mind. It's just the deciding to let them go part which is hard to do. Worthwhile considering though, IMHO.

you can always buy more projects if time/ space/ money become available…..And projects are kind of circular, your sold on projects become someone elses, you buy your next from another freeing up time and space.

 

[cheb]

And some projects are destined to be passed from victim to victim until a hero emerges to break the curse by loosing enough parts as to mortally wound it.

 

[droopsnoot]

I've salvaged a lot of random pieces of MDF from various kitchen units that have been dumped in the "scrap" area over the years, but I recently had a big clear-out of them as many of them had sat in the shed for years without being used. I haven't yet needed a piece that I've dumped, but I'm sure that will come at some point. In a way it felt good to get rid as I wanted to tidy that corner of the shed out and make it into a more usable space, but obviously all I've done since then is put more stuff into it.