billjustbill
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Got up Friday morning and went to an upscale neighborhood that listed "Building Supplies" and more. Bought four PVC long sweep 3" diameter curved elbows and one short sweep 3" gray PVC conduit elbow for $4 each. This should help when pulling the solar project's 2/0 and 4/0 copper cables through the buried PVC conduit run from the cabin to the house. Shouldn't be much loss with that size garage sale wire... (As evidence of having a twisted sense of humor, or declining mental health,) at the flea market last week, I found three large and old electrical gauges.... Although they are A/C rated, the 6" black with old, circa 1930's metal meters have aged paper scales behind the black moving needles. For $5 each, they appear to be rated at 115v, and measure amperage, power rating, and cycles per second.... They belong on a Frankenstein movie set.... and not wired but mounted on my solar project.....
Another sale I bought some stainless tie downs and large hinges used with some type of recreational/camper needs for $5.
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Another sale I spent $20..... for a "Plumb" hatchet, two different blacksmith tongs, a 50' tape, and 8" cat-paw nail puller, a new roll of galvanized metal perforated plumb's suspension tape....and for the same $20 bill, within a deep plastic, it's holding a Hunter 52" White/Brass Classic ceiling fan.... The fan is the newest cast iron motor, 5-blades, THREE speed, of the "Ole Time" version of the cast iron heavyweights with a ring motor. It has a matching Hunter brand 4-light fixture of shiny brass that matches a shiny brass lower fan plate instead of full cast iron... All four open glass shades and all the white wooden blades are there. I looked for something wrong, bent, or broken, but the fan just has the lube-cup oil spilled over the white paint. Everywhere I've looked sells this fan beginning at $349 , not including the light fixture or glass shades....all inside a deep plastic tub with it's top ajar and inside, a sheet of paper marked: "$5.00". Since it has a third and slower speed,, I'm thinking of replacing our current brass Hunter fan so with this one's slower low speed and a reverse switch, it should move the fireplace insert's heat throughout the house.
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Sprinkle three or four garage sales with kid-clothes and nothing found among the ones I've told you about, so far. At one of those was a young rather loud "Know-It-All Customer" telling the garage sale owner how silver is going to $200 by Christmas and gold is going to at least $5,000 in early 2014; you could bet the moon there was nothing gold or silver found.....
Then, you go to another one where you almost don't find a thing, but as you're leaving, I just happen to ask... "Do you have any costume jewelry?" The lady replies, "Oh...yes, I almost forgot to put it out.".....
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For 50-cents of which the lady set the price, I bought a 3/16" wide gold plated necklace stamped 14ksgp, which means 14kt gold plated over Sterling Silver... Then, I pay the same amount for an older1920's style .925 stamped bracelet made with links in the "V" shape of arrowheads. Then, the lady says she has some necklaces in the house and goes back to get those. She come out holding some thin "goldish" necklaces all tangled up on and around an earring made of seashell pieces. She asks, "Do you think you could get these apart?" As I quickly glance over the tangled mess and see some tiny markings on the catches, so I replied, "Well....I think I will take them as they are; do you have the other earring?" She goes into the house and comes back with a matching one and says, "You can have all this for... a dollar." After getting home, and 20 minutes of untangling, I find that within the mess, there's another .925 silver necklace and pendant, a super thin 10kt necklace, two 10kt pendants and the third chain is 14kt. gold. On Saturday, I made an offer and bought 3 small gold rings from one garage sale. All Totaled for both days of gold and silver finds: For $62, there is 79.4 grams of Sterling Silver (shown in photo #9), (In photo #11) 6.7 grams of 10kt. on the Right, and 4 grams of 14kt gold on the Left Side..... worth about $51.00 in silver, plus $211.00 in gold....
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Saturday, from a home builder, brought 3"& 4" Oak crown molding, along with "Paint Grade" 3" crown and other door facing and baseboard board moldings totaling hundreds of linear feet for Trudy's Cabin for $30. Found some old tools, an assorted diameter bundle of gray conduit for $20 if I bought a 4,000 case of nails for my Hitachi air nailer for $10.... Then add weatherproof electrical boxes, waterproof covers, a lamp made from a quart Mason jar, and a 5/8" copper ground rod for $13.00....
Seemed to be a good adventure,
Bill
Another sale I bought some stainless tie downs and large hinges used with some type of recreational/camper needs for $5.
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Another sale I spent $20..... for a "Plumb" hatchet, two different blacksmith tongs, a 50' tape, and 8" cat-paw nail puller, a new roll of galvanized metal perforated plumb's suspension tape....and for the same $20 bill, within a deep plastic, it's holding a Hunter 52" White/Brass Classic ceiling fan.... The fan is the newest cast iron motor, 5-blades, THREE speed, of the "Ole Time" version of the cast iron heavyweights with a ring motor. It has a matching Hunter brand 4-light fixture of shiny brass that matches a shiny brass lower fan plate instead of full cast iron... All four open glass shades and all the white wooden blades are there. I looked for something wrong, bent, or broken, but the fan just has the lube-cup oil spilled over the white paint. Everywhere I've looked sells this fan beginning at $349 , not including the light fixture or glass shades....all inside a deep plastic tub with it's top ajar and inside, a sheet of paper marked: "$5.00". Since it has a third and slower speed,, I'm thinking of replacing our current brass Hunter fan so with this one's slower low speed and a reverse switch, it should move the fireplace insert's heat throughout the house.
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Sprinkle three or four garage sales with kid-clothes and nothing found among the ones I've told you about, so far. At one of those was a young rather loud "Know-It-All Customer" telling the garage sale owner how silver is going to $200 by Christmas and gold is going to at least $5,000 in early 2014; you could bet the moon there was nothing gold or silver found.....
Then, you go to another one where you almost don't find a thing, but as you're leaving, I just happen to ask... "Do you have any costume jewelry?" The lady replies, "Oh...yes, I almost forgot to put it out.".....
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For 50-cents of which the lady set the price, I bought a 3/16" wide gold plated necklace stamped 14ksgp, which means 14kt gold plated over Sterling Silver... Then, I pay the same amount for an older1920's style .925 stamped bracelet made with links in the "V" shape of arrowheads. Then, the lady says she has some necklaces in the house and goes back to get those. She come out holding some thin "goldish" necklaces all tangled up on and around an earring made of seashell pieces. She asks, "Do you think you could get these apart?" As I quickly glance over the tangled mess and see some tiny markings on the catches, so I replied, "Well....I think I will take them as they are; do you have the other earring?" She goes into the house and comes back with a matching one and says, "You can have all this for... a dollar." After getting home, and 20 minutes of untangling, I find that within the mess, there's another .925 silver necklace and pendant, a super thin 10kt necklace, two 10kt pendants and the third chain is 14kt. gold. On Saturday, I made an offer and bought 3 small gold rings from one garage sale. All Totaled for both days of gold and silver finds: For $62, there is 79.4 grams of Sterling Silver (shown in photo #9), (In photo #11) 6.7 grams of 10kt. on the Right, and 4 grams of 14kt gold on the Left Side..... worth about $51.00 in silver, plus $211.00 in gold....
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Saturday, from a home builder, brought 3"& 4" Oak crown molding, along with "Paint Grade" 3" crown and other door facing and baseboard board moldings totaling hundreds of linear feet for Trudy's Cabin for $30. Found some old tools, an assorted diameter bundle of gray conduit for $20 if I bought a 4,000 case of nails for my Hitachi air nailer for $10.... Then add weatherproof electrical boxes, waterproof covers, a lamp made from a quart Mason jar, and a 5/8" copper ground rod for $13.00....
Seemed to be a good adventure,
Bill
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