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general discussion => what's on your mind? => Topic started by: Torque on December 17, 2023, 08:47:02 PM
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In the old shop there was always a piece of army green steel behind the welding bench. Had been there for 50 years, was too nice to cut up and make something out of so just stayed there. When I got a halftrack I realized it was the battery side armor! A piece I needed! Dad must have picked it up sometime for welding iron.
In the big Iron pile beside this shop there was always this pan shaped deal with a hole in it, thought about what I could make out of it several times but would need to weld up the hole and cut the brackets off it... About 10 years ago I hauled all that pile off. Then I saw pictures of oil pan armor and realized what I had scrapped! No idea how an obscure part like that ended up here but again something Dad picked up I'm sure. Still bugs me I didn't know what it was until 10 years too late...
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Previous owner of my ht passed, his wife wanted everything cleaned up. In his junk pile was a heavy duty tripod that was going to be scraped. Brought it home and tried to figure out what it was used for but never did so I took it to the Findlay show and sold it for $40 to a guy to make a planter stand out of it. He was going to pick it up later because it was too heavy to carry around. 10 minutes later another guy stopped and said he had been looking for that tripod for years, come to find out it held the remote for tracking airplanes with a search light, who knew. Happy ending,tripod ended up where it needed to be. One man’s junk is another man’s treasure!