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Do you collect parts?

Yep, I have a big box 'o' stuff
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I have a few parts
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No, I gather parts as I need 'em
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boxes? we don't need no stinkin boxes!!!!

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8) I have quite a grebellion at home and the wife knows not to touch :twisted: 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! :twisted:
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My inkjet printer just bought the farm... :D
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The new Deer Park Stackable water bottles have interesting tops--as do the smaller water bottles whose tops are good nozzle material.
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CHeck out the Folder's instant coffee mixes. Stretched octagon shape, looks perfect for a cargo module.
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Chacal wrote:My inkjet printer just bought the farm... :D
Ahh damn...that's a shame. :snort:

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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.

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Chacal wrote:My inkjet printer just bought the farm... :D
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)
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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>
<a href="http://www.kc6sye.com/2_wheresaneatpart.jpg" target="_Sparky">Is this plastic thingy on the counter a neat part?</a> <a href="http://www.kc6sye.com/1_casting_inprogress.jpg" target="_Sparky">Let's cast it.</a>
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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!

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Kolschey wrote:
Chacal wrote:My inkjet printer just bought the farm... :D
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.
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:bdh: Buuuump. One more time.
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heh...
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Kylwell wrote:heh...
Whole lotta parts need collectin'

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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.
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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
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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).
<a href="http://www.kc6sye.com/2_wheresaneatpart.jpg" target="_Sparky">Is this plastic thingy on the counter a neat part?</a> <a href="http://www.kc6sye.com/1_casting_inprogress.jpg" target="_Sparky">Let's cast it.</a>
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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.....

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Some airfilters have nice dome shapes.
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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.

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

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

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scratch this!

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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.
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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.
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The sheep says "BLAAAAAH" :D :D :D :D
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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 :)
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My collection of bits is growing.
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