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clan chieftain



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 11:47 am    Post subject: Used bits and pieces. Reply with quote

Even although I have my rack with new nuts and bolts and washers etc.( sudries I think you would call them) I still have a big plastic tub under my bench in the garage with used nuts and bolts of various threads and lengths and old other bits that I have had for years. I should really throw them out but you become attached to your old bits. I have boxes of old marina bits that I have collected over the yearslike SU carb bits and old brake fitting kits to name 2. The problem is that if I throw them out I will be looking for them next week. I am just a magpie .
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 11:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it'd be impossible to own and tinker with old cars if you didn't have a stock of bits, pieces, odds and ends, string, tape, odd fittings, bits of pipe, tubing, random tins of paint, and a motley assortment of tools, drill bits etc

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 2:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have Garage full off, 'I'll keep that it might come in usefull, even if I never use it'

But guaranteed to be needed the day after you have a tidy up and throw it out
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 2:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Always worth hanging on to odd stuff, as I saw in the following
webpage the other day, it's amazing what tools you can make to
overcome obstacles in your restoration......

Scroll down to about half way where he rebuilds the front fork legs:

http://www.bikersassociationofnorthdevon.co.uk/projects/YR5project.htm
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 7:58 pm    Post subject: Re: Used bits and pieces. Reply with quote

marina estate wrote:
I still have a big plastic tub under my bench in the garage with used nuts and bolts of various threads and lengths and old other bits that I have had for years. I should really throw them out but you become attached to your old bits.

I wish I just had a big plastic tub Embarassed I'm a bit of a magpie too, anything in our house that gets chucked out gets a scan from me for that potential useful bracket!! I decided a few weeks ago to try to keep my workshop and storage separate and have spent the last couple of days removing “bits” into my containers....I didn’t realise I had so much stuff, thus far 12 crates of stuff have gone into storage Embarassed

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 9:34 pm    Post subject: Re: Used bits and pieces. Reply with quote

ukdave2002 wrote:
marina estate wrote:
I still have a big plastic tub under my bench in the garage with used nuts and bolts of various threads and lengths and old other bits that I have had for years. I should really throw them out but you become attached to your old bits.

I wish I just had a big plastic tub Embarassed I'm a bit of a magpie too, anything in our house that gets chucked out gets a scan from me for that potential useful bracket!! I decided a few weeks ago to try to keep my workshop and storage separate and have spent the last couple of days removing “bits” into my containers....I didn’t realise I had so much stuff, thus far 12 crates of stuff have gone into storage Embarassed

Dave


Aren't the containers a bit of a trek from your workshop though?

Re chucking stuff out, I'm the same, no eleccy appliance for instance goes into the bin without losing some of its screws, and of course the plug.

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 1:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am the same with plugs. Goodness knows how many fuses I have lying about. Half of them probably dont even work. I have plenty empty biscuit tins and sweetie tins lying about.....in case they come in handy for keeping bits in. Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 1:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi

I have actually run out of plugs, I refuse to buy new ones, shudder to think, I obviously do not disguard enough stuff to cut the plugs off, then again, most modern tat has molded plugs on these days

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 7:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i'm a hoarder too! i've got boxes full of stuff i might just need one day Laughing my girlfriend can't understand why i keep all this stuff,but do any women? when i moved to a smaller place 8 years ago,there wasn't enough room for all my spares...so despite repeated ad's to get rid of some of it,and no takers,my Vauxhall 101 stuff had to go down the tip Sad Sad Sad
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 11:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sometimes when I have nothing else to do I have a rake just to see what Ive got Laughing Mind you when I eventually pop my clogs it will all end up in the tip anyway. Laughing Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 12:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

marina estate wrote:
Sometimes when I have nothing else to do I have a rake just to see what Ive got Laughing Mind you when I eventually pop my clogs it will all end up in the tip anyway. Laughing Laughing


To save it going to the tip, feel free to leave it to me... Wink That is of course if I live long enough. :-s
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 12:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You could leave your bits and pieces to Rick as he is South Cheshire as well Laughing Laughing He probably has more than you anyway. Laughing Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 2:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

marina estate wrote:
Sometimes when I have nothing else to do I have a rake just to see what Ive got Laughing Mind you when I eventually pop my clogs it will all end up in the tip anyway. Laughing Laughing


That's a good point. I have bought two houses since 2002. Both of the houses were owned by widowed, octagenarian but sadly, expired gentlemen.

What an incredible legacy of plastic knobs, brass, japanned and rust-coloured screws, inner-tubes, bits of varnished wood, old tins, twisted nails, rusted tacks, string, netting, old postcards and cast-iron bits I have inherited.

Out of a sense of duty and conscious of possible future usefulness I have to hold onto this legacy as well as my own collection.

The netting even has holes in it!
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

marina estate wrote:
You could leave your bits and pieces to Rick as he is South Cheshire as well Laughing Laughing He probably has more than you anyway. Laughing Laughing


I fear I'll be gone before that young whippersnapper buzzy bee! Smile

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