Who collects stuff for scratch building?

artic316 · Post by **artic316** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:11 am

8) I have quite a grebellion at home and the wife knows not to touch

Anything that peaks interest joins my greeble forces.After all I am working on a couple of SSC creations of my own using a brute bottle and a seasalt bottle. I will post some pics soon. Has anyone seen my spindle bender or my thingamabob?

BTW keep your filthy paws off my doohicky!

Chacal · Post by **Chacal** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:19 am

My inkjet printer just bought the farm...

publiusr · Post by **publiusr** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:03 pm

The new Deer Park Stackable water bottles have interesting tops--as do the smaller water bottles whose tops are good nozzle material.

Kylwell · Post by **Kylwell** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:23 pm

CHeck out the Folder's instant coffee mixes. Stretched octagon shape, looks perfect for a cargo module.

Lt. Z0mBe · Post by **Lt. Z0mBe** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:12 pm

Chacal wrote:My inkjet printer just bought the farm...

Ahh damn...that's a shame. :snort:

Kenny

macfrank · Post by **macfrank** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 8:06 pm

M&Ms has a new candy bowl for Christmas. It's about 8" in diameter and comes in two colors - shiny gold and shiny red.

The inner plastic container pops out from the outer shell. One half of the outer shell has a cutout of "M & M"; the inner white container fits into this. The other half is featureless, except for a flat area near the apex.

I found it at Smart & Final, but most stores should have it.

It's the perfect shape for this thing's body.

Frank

Kolschey · Post by **Kolschey** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:44 pm

Chacal wrote:My inkjet printer just bought the farm...

How terribly tragic. If you were to send it to me, I'm sure I could find some means to honor it's remains... Why, I'd even pay postage in order to ease your suffering.... 8)

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:39 am

The Grebbly collector's moto:
<A HREF="http://www.kc6sye.com/images/images_09_ ... a_mini.jpg" target="_blank">Find it,
save it,
cast it.</A>

admiralcag · Post by **admiralcag** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:23 am

Sparky wrote:The Grebbly collector's moto:
<A HREF="http://www.kc6sye.com/images/images_09_ ... a_mini.jpg" target="_blank">Find it,
save it,
cast it.</A>

I recognize some of those parts!

Vern

Chacal · Post by **Chacal** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:10 am

Kolschey wrote:
Chacal wrote:My inkjet printer just bought the farm...
How terribly tragic. If you were to send it to me, I'm sure I could find some means to honor it's remains... Why, I'd even pay postage in order to ease your suffering.... 8)

So sorry, the poor thing got into a terrible accident with a screwdriver, and there just wasn't much left of it to bury... But she'll be remembered (specially when I need greeblies) fondly.

Warped Speedster · Post by **Warped Speedster** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:50 pm

Buuuump. One more time.

Bar · Post by **Bar** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:16 am

In four months, this thread will have been going for two years...

Kylwell · Post by **Kylwell** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:18 pm

heh...

Lt. Z0mBe · Post by **Lt. Z0mBe** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:05 pm

Kylwell wrote:heh...

Whole lotta parts need collectin'

Kenny

Chacal · Post by **Chacal** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:49 am

Lt. Z0mBe wrote:
Kylwell wrote:heh...
Whole lotta parts need collectin'

Kenny

And they ain't gonna go about collecting themselves, so somebody's got to do it.

Lt. Z0mBe · Post by **Lt. Z0mBe** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:12 pm

Chacal wrote:
Lt. Z0mBe wrote:
Kylwell wrote:heh...
Whole lotta parts need collectin'

Kenny
And they ain't gonna go about collecting themselves, so somebody's got to do it.

Wasn't that a line from Sanford and Son?

Fred Sanford wrote:Hey Lamont, you big dummy. They ain't gonna go about collecting themselves

Kenny

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 3:49 am

There's my execuse I remeber watching that show as a kid. I've been programed to pack rat all the good parts.

Oh and I have to take a picture of this bag of crap kywell sent me. Then a picture of all the parts that came out of it that need to be molded asap. Some are right here on the desk in front of the monitor (the high value ones that I could get to without dumping out the whole bag).

Joseph C. Brown · Post by **Joseph C. Brown** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:57 am

Sparky wrote:There's my execuse I remeber watching that show as a kid. I've been programed to pack rat all the good parts.

Oh and I have to take a picture of this bag of crap kywell sent me. Then a picture of all the parts that came out of it that need to be molded asap. Some are right here on the desk in front of the monitor (the high value ones that I could get to without dumping out the whole bag).

Remind me to send you that Avon Hair Rocket bottle cap.....

publiusr · Post by **publiusr** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 1:36 pm

Some airfilters have nice dome shapes.

Lt. Z0mBe · Post by **Lt. Z0mBe** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:49 pm

My wife bought some ornaments at Garden Ridge the other day. God love her, she knew to save the shapes for me.

Basically, there are 20 or 30 ornaments, packaged in layers, that are stacked to form a cylinder about a foot or two tall. Each layer of ornaments sits in a clear vacuformed plastic tray, with hemispheres for each ornament in the layer.

The ornaments are of different sizes, making each tray have, four, six, eight, or more hemispheres molded into it.

I ended up with trays totalling about forty or fifty clear plastic hemispheres of vairous sizes.

God, I love my wife.

Kenny

Chacal · Post by **Chacal** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 8:40 pm

Christmas decorations have been taken down, and I sweet talked my way into getting some leftover big plastic christmas balls. They are a bit scuffed (from being used in a store) but the owner was not going to keep all of them in storage till next year (he doesn't know if he'll have the same color next year, so...).

Hee hee. Fuel tanks!

publiusr · Post by **publiusr** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:06 pm

I have cut out the top to a wide, plastic paint lid. Trying to think of uses.

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:43 pm

I took the Scotland Key chain Bar gave me at wonderfest apart, I had to get at the ball joints. Combined with the optical encoder wheel from a very old mouse and I get some sort of Tesla lightning gatalin gun. One ball gribbly short, but they got molded so no problem there.

http://www.kc6sye.com/images/images_12_ ... lingun.jpg

Bar · Post by **Bar** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 5:40 am

Good call!
I like your way of thinking, Joe...

Lt. Z0mBe · Post by **Lt. Z0mBe** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:50 pm

My wife threw out a strand of the small Christmas lights this year. If the bulbs are removed, and the wires pulled out, the resulting sockets look like great little detail pieces. I figure they're great engine nozzles, vents, or something. They even have a bit of texture to them.

Just a thought.

Kenny

1138thx · Post by **1138thx** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:26 pm

I found a "see and say" and split it in two. I also added two engines, Styreen window candles. and the base is from an old skittle bowl.
the top is an old portable wall light fixture. Just needs some more greebles.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p201 ... say001.jpg

Kolschey · Post by **Kolschey** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:43 pm

1138thx wrote:I found a "see and say" and split it in two. I also added two engines, Styreen window candles. and the base is from an old skittle bowl.
the top is an old portable wall light fixture. Just needs some more greebles.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p201 ... say001.jpg

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And time stood still...

Finally, as the crowds waited below, expectantly, a mighty voice thundered forth from the strange craft above...

"The Cow says MOOOO!"

1138thx · Post by **1138thx** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:41 pm

The sheep says "BLAAAAAH"

NIKIN · Post by **NIKIN** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:31 pm

lol

I have loads of bits everywhere and my mum knows never to clear out my room, when the vacuum cleaner was fixed I ended up with the gear box, brush (which is an interesting twisted shape) and the old tube

publiusr · Post by **publiusr** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:29 pm

My collection of bits is growing.

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