2006-09-25 Calphalon

One Calphalon Contemporary omlete pan like this. These are the middle of the range versions and not nearly as nice as the "commercial" or "one" range. This one has a loose handle and a lifetime warrantly so we will find something to do with it.....

2006-09-16 Puters

A nice selection of computing hardware. First an e-machine Celeron 2.0Ghz PC, 256M ram but no HD. Also an e-machines Athlon 2400, same source as previous, again no HD but has memory etc. Pic shows the Athlon but the Celeron looks almost exactly the same:

Next a Dell Pentium 4, complete with everything. Watch this space to see how much completness there is in the data on the 40G HD. I think this is identical to a prior Dell Pentium 4 we had.

2006-09-16 Peripherals

A fancy netgear NAT box and vpn thingy, plus a netgear 802.11g access point and NAT box. Both untested but so far they look in fine shape. One or both may get deployed as they both have advantages over their equivalents that we are currently using.

2006-09-16 Mower

Another happy little push lawn mower, same brand as our previous ones. This one is in very good shape in the blade department, having been sharpened and set recently, but the handle is a little beat up. No problem, it will get the handle off another one that has a cracked cast iron side casing and all will be well. Shown here before its rennnovations.

2006-09-16 Atari

Atari 5200 supersystem plus a whole bunch of extras. It mostly looks like it has not been used, all very special. This will be tested and maybe some action stills posted later but for now just a boring ebay style showcase pic.

2006-09-13 Updated update

The 3 foot pipe wrench was required to remove a radiator. Tried the 18inch model and did not work but the 3 footer cranked it right off. How fortuitious that it turned up a week or so in advance of when it was really needed.

2006-09-10 Updates

The pipe wrench got further cleaning and restoration to original manufacturer colours. Pretty much anyway. It is now in fine shape, as evidenced by this pic. It is pretty old but seems in good shape modulo the surface rust it had on it when it was found. I am sure we will have a use for a 3 foot pipe wrench at some stage.

Also the calphalon 8qt stock pot came back from its excursion to warranty-return-land and went, via ebay, on a journey to the house of a complete stranger. The 10inch omelet skillet went straight from warranty-return-land to a friend of a friend as a gift.

Upon detailed investigation, the dualit 3-slice toaster had one element dead inside. The thing has quite a history already as an acquaintance had asked me that day, "hey, could you find me a toaster?". I thusly found that toaster but he declined to take it as he was pushed for baggage space etc on his plane trip home. After we played with it and grokked the mechanism we liked it, hence our discovery of the bad element (reason for discard?). Another aspect of this toaster we like very much is that you can get replacement parts for it, hence we did so and voila, we have a "new" toaster. Sure beats buying one.