2004-09-11 Update: Compressor

For those with curious nature here is an updated picture on the Emglo Compressor. It was dismantled and had a paint job with POR-15 on the tanks and some general attention. The pressure switch needed cleaning to make it function correctly. It now seems to work fine.

2004-09-11 Trolley

Flatbed trolley. A little rusty, works fine, suitable for large welders, gearboxes etc. I may give it a coat of POR and touch up some joints with the welder (not necc in that order) but in the meantime here it is after having the wheel bearings greased:

2004-09-11 Garden Seat

Garden seat with cast iron ends and wood slats for the seat and back. To get it into Heidi for transport home we broke off all the wood slats and cropped off all the bolts. Nice. Plan for this might be galvanize the cast iron ends and put new teak slats on with stainless hardware. Rubber feet will make it the indoor/outdoor bench. Pic of the ends resting in the garden (not my pic!):

2004-09-11 Bolt Croppers

Pair of bolt croppers, about 18 inches in length, OK quality, fully adjustable, nick in one jaw, slight rust. We used them on the way home to help clean up the next item. Pic of them cleaned up and oiled here:

2004-09-10 Puters

One Pentium 2 400MHz Gateway. Seems damaged physically on the motherboard and is missing a cdrom.

One Pentium 3 Slot 1 style, missing memory, half the case and hard drive. Hmmmm, maybe I see a chimera coming on.

2004-09-04 Vise

Smallish, and potentially completely useless, swivel vise mentioned above:

2004-09-04 Mosquito Deleto

A new-in-box Coleman Mosquito Deleto 2100 device. Looks all special, its destiny is not yet decided but could end up joining some similar ones , Pic of ours here:

2004-09-04 Frame Saw

Interesting old frame saw that should provide entertainment for those collectors of old tools. It works, it was used to chop an old workbench in half for no particular reason, well maybe to facilitate extraction of the two vises bolted to it. Pic:

2004-08-26 Update: Loppers

The loppers from Tuesday, pictured below, have been used heavily over two days of clearing trees. They earnt us two bottles of fine wine so far and promises of more to come. For being so useful they got a quick canadian rebuild and coat of high visibility paint on certain parts.

2004-08-25 Fuel

Was a long way from home and hence out of free fuel, was forced to actually buy fuel! The horror. Put in 10 gallons only. Went to pay and noticed that the fuel stop had a food area, almost a cafe. I asked about their deep fryer oil and they showed me a 55 gallon drum of the best looking oil I have ever seen. It was not luck that I had three 5 gallon buckets with me.

They did not seem to understand that it was against their interest to give me that oil. Oh well.

2004-08-24 Puter Dumpster

A realtor type office seemed to have emptied itself, including lots of computing related items, into a dumpster. We made off with numerous items, inclucing but not limited to.

One Gateway Pentium 2 266MHz with no memory but a hard drive full of realtor stuff. Most entertaining. No porn though.

One Gateway Pentium 2 233Mhz yet to be investigated.

One unidentified Athlon type thing with lots of memery but no HD. DVD rom and CD-R still there all happy.

One Belkin KVM switch, two TV capture cards and assorted 168 pin memory.

Several Windows and Office install CDs. Great, just what we need.

Pair of ethernet crimpers and lots of cable ready to be crimped. These are probably the most useful thing in the dumpster even if they did draw blood. Pic:

Linksys wireless print server adaptor, not the sort of thing we would use but you never know we might find a use for it. More likely a customer for it. Pic:

Pair of pruning loppers. They seem to fully functional. They are not computer related but they sneaked in at the end here anyway.