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On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:32:31 -0000, Gary Heston wrote:
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Ignoramus16071 wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:27:22 -0000, Gary Heston wrote:
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Ignoramus16071 wrote:
[ ... ] Like little T6061 aluminum plates [ ... ]

Are any of your aluminum plates 1/4" thick and big enough to cut 18"
triangles out of?

No, they are little square 5x5 plates, about 1/8" thick.

I do, however, have 3/8" about 8x14 plate and 1/2" 8x13 or so. Also
aluminum.

Any way to weld them together? I don't mind going thicker, I need these
for decking in my antenna tower. I see a new rotator and thrust bearing
in my future.

I doubt that.

IIRC, I have one about 5" pulley with 1 3/8" shaft hole with keyway
and special tightening screws. I have more, but those I may need.

Price? You can email me; the address you see is valid.

$10 will take it, shipping is $8.10 priority mail flat rate box.

i

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What makes them valuable if it's not economical to try
to sell them (and they take up your storage space)?

Ignoramus16071 wrote:
My hoarding problem is this.... But, despite being valuable, they
are not economical to try to sell them. Too little money, too much
hassle, and quite possibly they would not sell at all.

i

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On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:33:28 -0600, M Berger wrote:
What makes them valuable if it's not economical to try
to sell them (and they take up your storage space)?

Because I think that they well might be useful later. A few things
that I have, are going into the trailer, such as steel handles,
electrical box, a big handle, etc.

Ignoramus16071 wrote:
My hoarding problem is this.... But, despite being valuable, they
are not economical to try to sell them. Too little money, too much
hassle, and quite possibly they would not sell at all.

i

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Its interesting that when true hoarders collect things that are
actually valuable, they usually manage to make them worthless by the
time somebody else gets em.

There was guy down near Centralia Washington that collected cars- at
his peak, he had something like 2000 of em. He was sure every one was
"valuable" and would never sell. And as they sat, they rotted, tires
grew thru the hoods, paint and chrome peeled, engines rusted solid, and
when he finally died, and the family had to dispose of them, virtually
none of them were worth anything, even as parts.

I have seen this same thing happen with tool collectors- the old guys
are so sure that the stuff is worth a fortune, they routinely chase
away people who would actually reuse, restore, or understand their
tools, and want to pay reasonable prices for them- and so, in the end,
it all becomes scrap.

There was a famous junkyard in Richmond Virginia, where the old guy
saved Steam Railroad engines, and other huge machines. He never would
sell, convinced he was sitting on a gold mine. Well, when he died, the
relatives found he was- and it was the real estate. The land itself was
worth a lot, the scrap metal on it was just that- scrap metal. A
foundation was set up to save the oldest engines, and the relatives
gave them away for free- and if it had happened 20 or 30 years earlier,
there would have been a lot more to save- age, weather, and vandals had
taken a severe toll. While alive, he cagily quoted prices of a hundred
thousand dollars for a steam engine, and when he died, they were free
for the hauling. Assuming you could afford to haul something that was
80 feet long and weighed 20 tons.

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Ignoramus18435 wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:33:28 -0600, M Berger wrote:
What makes them valuable if it's not economical to try
to sell them (and they take up your storage space)?

Because I think that they well might be useful later. A few things
that I have, are going into the trailer, such as steel handles,
electrical box, a big handle, etc.

Not to pick on you personally, but that is exactly the thinking that
can lie behind hoarding things excessively. And the thing about
it is, it is TRUE. You might very well MIGHT find a perfect use for
that item later on.

The problem is when the thinking ends there. For it to be the best
decision to hold on to something, the fact that it might be useful
is, by itself, not enough. There are positives of keeping it, but
there are negatives too, and the positives need to outweigh the
negatives. One possible negative is reducing the amount of space
you have for other things, making it harder to walk around, harder
to work, and harder to find the stuff that truly is useful among
the sea of stuff. Another negative is if you wind up paying extra
money to rent a storage space. In a lot of cases, you could re-buy
every single item in a rented storage space for less than the
$75/month rental fees multiplied by however many years you keep
it. It just doesn't make sense to store $1000 worth of furniture
in a $75/month storage space for 2 years. And of course, there
are other negatives of storing things, too, like having to look
at clutter, the extra time out of your life it takes to deal with
all of it, and so on.

- Logan

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On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:52:48 -0600, Logan Shaw wrote:
Ignoramus18435 wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:33:28 -0600, M Berger wrote:
What makes them valuable if it's not economical to try
to sell them (and they take up your storage space)?

Because I think that they well might be useful later. A few things
that I have, are going into the trailer, such as steel handles,
electrical box, a big handle, etc.

Not to pick on you personally, but that is exactly the thinking that
can lie behind hoarding things excessively. And the thing about
it is, it is TRUE. You might very well MIGHT find a perfect use for
that item later on.

The problem is when the thinking ends there. For it to be the best
decision to hold on to something, the fact that it might be useful
is, by itself, not enough. There are positives of keeping it, but
there are negatives too, and the positives need to outweigh the
negatives. One possible negative is reducing the amount of space
you have for other things, making it harder to walk around, harder
to work, and harder to find the stuff that truly is useful among
the sea of stuff. Another negative is if you wind up paying extra
money to rent a storage space. In a lot of cases, you could re-buy
every single item in a rented storage space for less than the
$75/month rental fees multiplied by however many years you keep
it. It just doesn't make sense to store $1000 worth of furniture
in a $75/month storage space for 2 years. And of course, there
are other negatives of storing things, too, like having to look
at clutter, the extra time out of your life it takes to deal with
all of it, and so on.

- Logan

I agree 100%.

i

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Gary Heston wrote:
IIn other news, my late neighbor was apparently hoarding staircase
spindles--his survivors gave me about 500 this past weekend, about
430 of them the same size. They're overhead in the garage, now,
awaiting a project.


Don't you mean, they are awaiting your survivors to give them to
someone else? LOL

Although I shouldn't talk.. I got a great deal on some Oak 2 x 2 at
habitat.. 25 cents each for pieces
4 feet long.. too good to pass up, so of course I had to buy all of
them (about 40).. Haven't figured out a use
for them yet, although I convince myself that I will eventually LOL.

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bf wrote:

Although I shouldn't talk.. I got a great deal on some Oak 2 x 2 at
habitat.. 25 cents each for pieces
4 feet long.. too good to pass up, so of course I had to buy all of
them (about 40).. Haven't figured out a use
for them yet, although I convince myself that I will eventually LOL.

A gallon of glue, some clamps, some time, and you have enough material
for a small table for a bedroom, hallway, etc.

Of course, now you are going to need a table lamp for itG.

Lew

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Oh lets not go there. I am get scared walking into the Habitat shops.
Thank God I don't have a bigger Truck or I would buy them out of wood
at times.
bf wrote:
Gary Heston wrote:
IIn other news, my late neighbor was apparently hoarding staircase
spindles--his survivors gave me about 500 this past weekend, about
430 of them the same size. They're overhead in the garage, now,
awaiting a project.


Don't you mean, they are awaiting your survivors to give them to
someone else? LOL

Although I shouldn't talk.. I got a great deal on some Oak 2 x 2 at
habitat.. 25 cents each for pieces
4 feet long.. too good to pass up, so of course I had to buy all of
them (about 40).. Haven't figured out a use
for them yet, although I convince myself that I will eventually LOL.

Compulsive Hoarding....Do You Know Someone LIke This?
 

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Ignoramus18435 wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:32:31 -0000, Gary Heston wrote:
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[ ... ]
IIRC, I have one about 5" pulley with 1 3/8" shaft hole with keyway
and special tightening screws. I have more, but those I may need.

Price? You can email me; the address you see is valid.

$10 will take it, shipping is $8.10 priority mail flat rate box.

Sounds good. Would you prefer a check or money order? Email an address
to send payment to and I'll get it on the way.


Gary

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