In article <019e01c1ad34$e941e900$6401a8c0@san.rr.com>, Jeff McNeal
<jmcneal@ohms.com> writes
>Mike,
>
>As with anything else, one man's "junk" is another man's treasure...
>Maybe there's someone out there with a speedo that works, but the face
>plate is in poor shape for whatever reason, or the glass or bezel,
>anything!
Fair comment. And I don't suppose that turning it into a snow globe
would do those parts any favours. Ah, well, back to the quartz clock
idea.
> As for the rest of the stuff, it's only limited to your
>imagination, really.
My imagination is fairly limited - hence the request for ideas. I may
be an author, but I write *non-fiction* books, you know. <g>
> I have a hard time of letting anything go, afraid
>that if I do, "someday" I might wish I had it for somthing else. Like
>an extra bracket that came with my garage door replacement hardware.
>It's heavy steel and I had no possible use for it, but I saved it
>anyway. Then a couple of weeks ago, I discovered that it made a
>splended "support" for my Keihin quad carb conversion. If you keep
>your old parts long enough, you'll find another use for them. Either
>that, or you'll wind up with a lot of useless junk that your "estate"
>will have to sort through and either toss in the dumpster or sell on
>eBay after you croak someday. But it's always good to have "stuff".
>And more "stuff".
I'm certainly with you on that. But there are limits to the potential
usefulness of such things as dead speedos and knackered pistons, and I
don't like just to throw them away.
ATB
--
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html
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