Since we have the best and worst equipment posts, what about stuff you thought you'd use, and don't? I have a gold-plating machine that I'm embarrassed to say how much I paid. A Roto-Zip tool also comes to mind, as well as a drill press I haven't used in 20 years.
Anybody else have stuff you wonder why you keep?
Posted by Darcy Baker (Member # 8262) on :
I also have a brand new Roto Zip, My 7'2" rounded Pin (because of my location), A set of golf clubs someone gave me,My sandblaster, My SAS air supply system and a cheap set of gouges I purchased when I found out what "real" quality chisels cost.Other than that I'm in good shape.We could turn this into a swap meet.
[ July 11, 2010, 08:41 PM: Message edited by: Darcy Baker ]
Posted by Dan Sawatzky (Member # 88) on :
I proudly bought home a very expensive lathe decades ago. The first day I had it I build a cool sample piece for the wall. Then I cut the lathe apart and extended the bed to eight feet long. I welded it back together again (almost straight).
I also paid a lot of money for a flame cutting rig which I never did assemble. Since then I've bought a plasma rig so the flame unit will never get used.
I've got two expensive HVLP guns and compressors which have seen no use in the last 12 years.
Since we downsized from a staff of 22 people there is a lot of equipment that only gathers dust.
But one of these days I may just need it in Yarrow...
-grampa dan
Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :
YEP Shirley!!!!..and if Shirley had her say she'd say the same thing about me too!!! LOL
OH!!!, you're talking about actual mechanical stuff?
Bought a rotozip thing,,thought it would be neat...Wasn't.
Bought a few brushes,,, thought I'd learn to use them...Didn't happen.
Good news is..new laptops for two people in Canada (which will be used in Mexico in a couple of months.)
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
My opaque projector used to be one of the most-used items, then we got as bigger better one, then we got an overhead/transparency one, and time marches on. I don't think the opaque projectors have been turned on in 10 years. I still have the first ink-jet printer, a Canon BJ10-ex- all of $850 in about 1992. We retired it in 2001, but it still DOES work, though it only has a single-page feeder.
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
It's bee over thirty years since I've used my swing stage. It's a beautiful piece of history with wheels that roll down the wall and 1" manila falls.
I have my oval tool that Kent Smith made and sold long ago. Since we have plotters, that tool has been replaced.
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
My brain.
Posted by Tim Barrow (Member # 576) on :
Got a set of 5/8" polypropylene rope falls here(block and tackle for a swing stage) with 1" cold roll bar stock steel hooks,...the stage and stirrups grew legs a long time back during the 90's inna divorce,..dunno why I keep them but ya never know,....
[ July 11, 2010, 09:01 PM: Message edited by: Tim Barrow ]
Posted by Rene Giroux (Member # 4980) on :
canned-art CD's!
Posted by George Perkins (Member # 156) on :
Maulstick, had it thirty years, used it maybe twice. Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
A cup screen printing machine.
Posted by Preston McCall (Member # 351) on :
A brand new Kodak slide projector with the carossel. Never used it, but still think someday I will?
Or how about that set of router bits or those easy outs. I have my father's Kennedy tool box that has some tools in it that will never get used. Then there are all of those old glass jars with nuts and bolts on them that maybe once a year I look thru for some weird nut or bolt. Why do we accumulate so much stuff? Because we have the place to store it, I guess and cannot imagine throwing them away. Anybody need a Gremlin fender insignia or how about that Camaro RS Convertible insignia? I even have some 64 Mustang rubber door grommets!
Posted by William DeBekker (Member # 3848) on :
Rotozip, Wood Lathe.. Sitting outback the shop rusting.
Posted by Duncan Wilkie (Member # 132) on :
Semi Automatic Filibar screen printing press. We only do short runs now, this thing is going to the trash bin.
Posted by Joey Madden (Member # 1192) on :
Still have a 4B with a CadLink card, fonts couple sign programs right down to the original box it came in, it has been stored for the past 10 years and I just smile when I see it Posted by Darcy Baker (Member # 8262) on :
And the winner is???????? Rotozip.I love mine and you will find it on e-bay complete with the custom bag
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
I'm surprised to see unused lathes. I want one.
Posted by Russ McMullin (Member # 5617) on :
I have a Rotozip too. It works great for cutting sheetrock, and that's about it.
My old beseler opaque projector gathers dust year after year.
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
An airbrush. My sister talked me into buying it and I couldn't even afford it then. Used it once, hated it, I think it's in my son's work toolbox. Love....Jill
Posted by Brent Logan (Member # 6587) on :
My airbrush is gathering dust too. I used it like crazy 20 years ago.
Posted by W. R. Pickett (Member # 3842) on :
'Letraset' press type.
Posted by Patrick Whatley (Member # 2008) on :
Bad assed phone system for the shop. It would have set us up with three phone lines, 8 voice mail accounts, and the ability to forward calls to any other phone number on a call to call basis.
UPS brought it in, opened the box to make sure it was all there, stuck it on the side table and it's been there for 4 years.
Posted by Lawrence Armstrong (Member # 8336) on :
Airbrush here too. Used it maybe twice in the last 5 years.
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
Billy,
Can I trade you my press type for a Rotozip? I almost bought one but didn't and now I feel left out and unfulfilled.
Posted by Dave Sherby (Member # 698) on :
My fire extinguishers. And thank God for that. Every other tool I've bought I use often. Oh, except for a Ryobi finish sander, the one with the triangle shape. What a piece of junk. I don't think it would sand down your finger nails.
Posted by Sonny Franks (Member # 588) on :
I thought I was the only one who still had Presstype.
David, I always considered the RotoZip to have some useful purpose, but the only thing I could envision was some sort of sexual device - with the right attachments, of course...........
Posted by Dennis Raap (Member # 3632) on :
Dave I forgot I had a Ryobi finish sander you are right what a piece of junk.
Posted by Judy Pate (Member # 237) on :
My two Speed-Presses, 3' and 6' long. Bought them at a Sign Show in Florida. Used them when I first got them but must have bought the wrong tact application material. Never worked like they were supposed to. Haven't used either one of them in 12+ years.
Posted by Brent Logan (Member # 6587) on :
I had one of those dumb triangle finish sanders too. It would have made a good "personnal massage" device as well but I sold it at a garage sale. That thing vibrated real good!
Maybe I could have used it to rub down my 30 year old press type.
Posted by Jon Butterworth (Member # 227) on :
Ditto on the maulstick George ... can't remember when I last used the one I made myself out of a length of dowling and a rag taped to the end YEARS ago! At least it won't rust
PS: I do have an 8x4 Double sided easel I built out of 2x3 pine when I first came to Toowoomba 25 years ago. Working out of a single garage in a rental property. Had to pack everything away at night so the wife could park the car.
15 years ago we brought this place and I installed a 30x8 signwall and the easel has only seen the light of day a couple times when I hosted panel jams and we needed extra work space.
Can't even think of using it for firewood
[ July 13, 2010, 03:04 AM: Message edited by: Jon Butterworth ]
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
Funny...I've got two different sized trinagle sanders here- niether is a Ryobi though- one's a Bosch.
I would not be without both of them though. There have been many times I've needed to sand level into a multitude of corners without hitting the other edges of mouldings near them, and they've let me get a brilliant fininsh in times when my fingers just were tired of doing it any other way. I had one big job 10 years ago with heaps of panels & mouldings & internal corners- it paid for itself in that one job, with the effort saved.
Airbrush & lathe get plenty of use too!
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
My wife just told me that I forgot to include "brain" on my list.
Sigh. I forgot to take the trash out to the curb last night.
Posted by Neil D. Butler (Member # 661) on :
I can't say it on here.
Posted by Dave Sherby (Member # 698) on :
Ian, what you do with your Bosch, you could not do with the Ryobi. It vibrates from side to side so much you end up hitting everything you don't want to touch.
Judy, my speed press works great for what I bought it for, putting down paint mask on hardwood courts. But for normal vinyl application on anything but a banner.... bubble city.
Posted by Dale Feicke (Member # 767) on :
I guess my 4B; haven't used it in about 8 years.
Then those ladder guards, that you put on the side of extension ladders, to keep them from sliding on the building. Opened the box, took them out, threw them in the corner...still there.
Still use my mahlstick. I made a custom one of the local bamboo, that grows in our yard.
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
For those who listed their brains as the least used piece of equipment. Have you considered that the dongle may not be working correctly?
Posted by Frank Magoo (Member # 3950) on :
For me, it's a cork sealed Buegler striping tool...
As far as the "brain", mine gets used all the time, how else would I get into all the messes I do?
But my mahlstick (a Royal Shaft by Don King, great stick) gets used all the time...in fact; today in Kearney, Neb., I ran across a walldog finishing up a mural downtown for "HuskerDays", he had a Royal Shaft, how he found them is beyond me, but there it was...
Posted by jack wills (Member # 521) on :
David, I might call you out...That was my brain damn'it !
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