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Title: Accumulations?
Post by: Wayne Collier on April 28, 2020, 03:16:27 PM: Do you guys have things that seem to accumulate almost unnoticeably? You just realize one day there’s a pile? I just realized today how many wheels and plastic cox backplates I have. I didn’t try to count them. The pile is just bigger than I would have thought. Also thin stamped metal bell cranks. Can’t explain where they came from. A while back I ran across a tester’s .049 that I didn’t even know I had. Thought I might have absorbed it from another person but he didn’t remember it either. I tossed it because the piston didn’t move when the crank rotated. All that and other stuff and somehow I end up short of something. Two online orders in a month and I didn’t think to get sharp blades. Oh well ...
Title: Re: Accumulations?
Post by: SportsFlyer on April 28, 2020, 07:06:48 PM: Sure Wayne. It has happened to me too. Worst, I will order something I need now , just later to find that I already had it somewhere in the plie. Plain forgot.
Title: Re: Accumulations?
Post by: wwwarbird on April 28, 2020, 07:36:08 PM: This is a normal part of our hobby. :)
Title: Re: Accumulations?
Post by: Clint Taylor on April 29, 2020, 01:45:31 AM: I sometimes look at all of my kits and engines and begin to suspect that they are procreating while I am not around. I find things I have no memory of on a fairly regular basis.
Title: Re: Accumulations?
Post by: Larry Renger on April 29, 2020, 03:54:19 PM: Worse, I come across stuff or things for which I haven’t a clue what they were for or where it came from. I can’t even sell it if I don’t know what it is. You accumulate a lot of stuff in 77 years. H^^

Anyone want a dingus or thingamabob or perhaps a prime whatzit? CHEAP? LL~
Title: Re: Accumulations?
Post by: Dan McEntee on April 29, 2020, 05:52:12 PM: Quote from: Larry Renger on April 29, 2020, 03:54:19 PM
Worse, I come across stuff or things for which I haven’t a clue what they were for or where it came from. I can’t even sell it if I don’t know what it is. You accumulate a lot of stuff in 77 years. H^^

Anyone want a dingus or thingamabob or perhaps a prime whatzit? CHEAP? LL~

I'll take 'em Larry!! What I can use are some nice ferndocks, I'm running low on ferndocks and whachacallits. I'm willing to trade some hexagonal crankshaft limiter relays for them! y1 y1
I have bee cleaning up and clearing out some stuff during this lay off period and making some progress. I have my own stuff that I have collected, plus I have had the estates of 3 or 4 guys go through my house and garage in the past two years and have lots of leftovers from those also. But things are looking better. not where I want and need to be but looking better.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
Title: Re: Accumulations?
Post by: Larry Renger on April 29, 2020, 06:35:55 PM: Sorry, up to my ears in hexagonal crankshaft limiter relays unless they are left hand solid state.
Title: Re: Accumulations?
Post by: Wayne Collier on April 29, 2020, 08:19:59 PM: It’s the jars of blinker fluid that take up so much space
Title: Re: Accumulations?
Post by: Wayne Collier on April 29, 2020, 08:32:40 PM: Needle valve maybe? But for what?
Title: Re: Accumulations?
Post by: wwwarbird on April 29, 2020, 08:32:42 PM: I've got a whole ton of stuff, but I can't seem to find my Roundtuit. ???
Title: Re: Accumulations?
Post by: Wayne Collier on April 29, 2020, 08:40:23 PM: Mystery Fuel. No slam on the manufacturer. I’m sure I defaced the label.
Title: Re: Accumulations?
Post by: wwwarbird on April 29, 2020, 09:25:52 PM: Quote from: Wayne Collier on April 29, 2020, 08:40:23 PM
Mystery Fuel. No slam on the manufacturer. I’m sure I defaced the label.

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