What Did You Salvage Today?

[ChazzC]

Starting a thread is a bit like kicking off a couple of a revolution: always a risky business. I like to see myself as an instigator.

Perhaps someone will come along, read the OP or even just the title and then put a post up that drags things back on topic. Maybe not though.

Eh, anyway, once someone else has posted a reply to the OP on a thread, the thread now belongs to everyone. Having been guilty of (temporarily at least) hijacking threads started by others, well, let's just say there's this large bit of wooden material stuck in my eye!

1) I share the blame, and promise not to talk about food in this thread (even to correct @RaisedByWolves and all of the others that green tomatoes should be thick sliced, dusted with fine yellow cornmeal and shallow fried in bacon grease).

2) While I did take advantage of the (relatively) nice weather yesterday and today and took short walks it wasn’t trash day so didn’t see anything other than an abandoned Christmas tree. Even if I had, I would not have been able to bring anything back (left arm still in sling, and Physical Therapist told me would likely be for another 4 weeks; as I am using a hiking stick per my PPC Physician the right hand is also occupied) and SO is not likely to assist in bringing “any more junk” home.

3) I promise that once I am again capable I will again document my finds, even if I don’t collect something.

 

[yota]

I repurposed some of the steel C-channel frame from a harbor freight shop press that I bent into a base for a small forge.

 

[Dhal22]

Still off topic. My brother went to Cambridge on full scholarship (masters and phd) met his wife over there and now is a professor over there. Back while they were dating she had a several hour layover in Atlanta so I met her at the airport and provided some company while she waited. At that time the wife and I were planning a trip to Europe but Britain wasn’t on our list. I asked my future sister in law why and she promptly responded that their food and weather sucks. Her comment, not mine and I had only just met her.

 

[RaisedByWolves]

Yeah, the sun isn't as frequent a visitor to these isles of ours as we'd like.

I mean, I'm lucky, being in the south. Most of the poor buggers in Manchester only have theoretical knowledge and oral tradition type folk tales about any other weather than rain.

How can you claim to be from the south when your on an island?

It’s fooking round mate, it hanna got a top.

That’s like someone from Australia claiming their on a continent.

Now I want vegimite said no one ever.

 

[ltlvt]

I skinned a leather recliner. Yep like you would skin a deer. Gona use some of it for my tool chest projects. Will make really good liners for the drawers. Got some 4 1/2" thick foam and last but not least all the steel pieces that make the foot stool extend out. I may take it further and salvage the steel rivets that hold all the metal parts together. I've always wanted to build my own work table using the old rivet and plate method like they did when bridges were riveted together and boilers were riveted together. There are just no rules when it comes to repurposing and salvaging material. Sunday I got a plastic tank that must be the guts of an IBC tote. Going to make myself a large electrolysis tank for de-rusting. Also repaired a 48 volt golf cart battery charger that was given to me by a friend and it will be the power source for the de-rust operation.

 

[woodchucker]

To me, this topic applies any time something is saved from filling up a landfill because of the talents developed by being good in a shop. That gives us a way to feel like our hobby is actually good for the world at large, in spite of its ruinous impact on our retirement savings.

Not that I'm projecting, or anything

Rick "needs to go into sales, like Dave" Denney

That's most of what I do. I keep old stuff running, or fix things that break. In a throw away society we are keeping stuff from the landfills.

I remember when you could get parts for most things. Not all... Those days are gone mostly. It's too expensive to fix, and it's too expensive to keep inventory for most residential or retail items.

 

[woodchucker]

I skinned a leather recliner. Yep like you would skin a deer. Gona use some of it for my tool chest projects. Will make really good liners for the drawers. Got some 4 1/2" thick foam and last but not least all the steel pieces that make the foot stool extend out. I may take it further and salvage the steel rivets that hold all the metal parts together. I've always wanted to build my own work table using the old rivet and plate method like they did when bridges were riveted together and boilers were riveted together. There are just no rules when it comes to repurposing and salvaging material. Sunday I got a plastic tank that must be the guts of an IBC tote. Going to make myself a large electrolysis tank for de-rusting. Also repaired a 48 volt golf cart battery charger that was given to me by a friend and it will be the power source for the de-rust operation.

eeeew that's a lot of juice at 48v. electrolysis in small tanks does not need a lot of juice, but in big tanks I don't know.

 

[woodchucker]

I like ours a little on the soft side on a sandwich, don’t know if I ever had proper rashers.

First time I had Canadian bacon was at McDonalds as a kid on an eggamuffin and I immediately wanted to invade Canada and liberate them from that soggy sliced ham impersonating a proper smoked pork product.

BTW, don’t you ever sleep?

you mean what we call pork roll? or taylor ham... what's wrong with it. I love it. Love bacon too.

 

[woodchucker]

Still off topic. My brother went to Cambridge on full scholarship (masters and phd) met his wife over there and now is a professor over there. Back while they were dating she had a several hour layover in Atlanta so I met her at the airport and provided some company while she waited. At that time the wife and I were planning a trip to Europe but Britain wasn’t on our list. I asked my future sister in law why and she promptly responded that their food and weather sucks. Her comment, not mine and I had only just met her.

very bland food. I like spicy food, Thai, Indian, Mexican, Himalayan (like Indian somewhat),Italian, Jamaican, French, Cajun, Vietnamese, Chinese etc. so English food would not be where I go for food.

 

[SouthernChap]

very bland food. I like spicy food, Thai, Indian, Mexican, Himalayan (like Indian somewhat),Italian, Jamaican, French, Cajun, Vietnamese, Chinese etc. so English food would not be where I go for food.

Eh, everyone likes what they like, and should eat or drink what they like, without being looked down on for their tastes.

That said, there are flavours in most foods. To some, a given food's flavour can be bland, whilst other people with taste buds that are triggered by the slightest thing, can find that food's taste very distinct.

To someone from Tamil or Kerala, North Indian dishes will lack punch and most French food will taste of nothing.

Take the humble potato, for example. To most, a peeled, boiled potato is the classic bland food, but if not over-cooked you get a nutty flavour, or a buttery, creamy flavour, or even in some varieties, a subtle flavour of plumb. Then there's texture of course.

There's no doubt British savoury cooking has in the past, had a reputation for being long on stodge and short on flavour, but these days, it's a lot better.

The examples of cuisines you mention all heavily rely on added flavourings; spices and herbs in the main.

Properly cooked traditional British dishes tend to rely on the flavours from the main ingredients themselves. More subtle I'll grant, and definitely at risk of being dulled by poor prep and/or poor cooking technique, but if correctly cooked, still flavoursome.

Oh, and nobody does desserts/cakes like the Brits. I love a tiramisu or apfelkuchen as much as the next man, but nothing. beats a proper English trifle (no booze in the sponge, or nuts on the whipped cream topping).