2004-07-12 Fuel

Hmmm, have located a 55 gallon drum with old cooking oil in it. Obviously I have to leave the drum and take the oil, hence I need to go back with several buckets. May also have to accost the owners of the drum, but only after I have this batch from it. It seems to have about 25 gallons in it and quite clear looking.

2004-07-11 Pipe Vise

One somewhat rusty clamp-on pipe vise. I did not have one prior to this so it is worth cleaning up I think. Photo makes it look worse than it is......

2004-07-11 Compressor

One portable wheelbarrow style compressor made by Emglo. Are they owned by Dewalt now? Previous owner informed me it worked as I lifted it from his minivan into my trailor. One wonders if that made him feel sheepish. It has been left out in the rain a bit but a quick coat of POR-15 might have to occur.

It works intermittently, current suspect is the presure switch thingy, which should be easy to clean or fix or replace. Here it is in unflattering surroundings woken from peaceful sleep in the trailer:

2004-07-06 Stainless Food Service

Five assorted small stainless steel food service containers, complete with refried bean remants and maggots. They look to be just dirty but otherwise in very good shape. You can never have enough commercial quality kitchen gear, or so I hear. If you do ever have enough then there is always ebay..........

Here is a pic of them in varying states of cleanliness. Angle grinder with stainless wire brush is my friend.

2004-07-05 Veg Oil

Five gallons of cooking oil. It had already seperated into about half-half creamy goop and oil. I decanted the oil off the top and filtered it, looks very clean and ready to go. I am sure I could use the goop as well but will just take that back as am not in the mood, too humid. Added to the 5 gallons from the city the other day this lot should take care of my fuel for the week.

2004-07-05 Shelf Units

Two nice 304 stainless modular shelf elements made by Metropolitan Wire Corporation. Both are 60 inches long and the depths are 14 and 24 inches, check them out here for a price quote , $286.70 and $386.70 respectively. Now all I need is some legs for them. Available here its seems for slightly less money. I have seen these legs floating around before, I will have to pick some up at some stage. Meanwhile here are the shelves after some form of cleaning:

2004-07-05 Athlon

One HP 6360 with Athlon 367MHz CPU and 10GB disk. It was missing its memory but upon being supplied some it booted fine. Lots of family pictures, tax docs for every year since 1998 and all sorts of other goodies on with working copy of Windows 98 (great, honest!). Extensive addressbook present (good for social engineering purposes?) and other assorted personal items. Too much data to wade through now, will store away and save for a rainy day. Here are the faqs and specs for this from HP, nice that the first item on the list is spyware. Errr, I run NetBSD and my machine is slowing down, do I have spyware......?

One sketchy screen dump of me rifling through the "My Documents" folder using Knoppix, much more stuff scattered all through the disk.