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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?
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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.
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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
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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,....
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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!
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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...........
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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.
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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.
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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
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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!
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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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.
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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.
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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...
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David, I might call you out...That was my brain damn'it !
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