the tinker
Cruisin' on my Bluebird
I stop at garages and estate sales a lot. Often times there are several shelves of cans and jars of assorted paints, oils, waxes , you name it. Many times these items are not priced. Really , who will purchase some dirty old partially filled can of gosh knows what? ........I will. Old spray paint especially here up north where it could have been frozen I stay away from unless it looks new. But the other stuff is like gold to me.
Most all these cans, be it bug spray , lawn products, Wd 40 , wax , oil and paint will be gladly given away or sold for practically nothing. I love going into some of the older folks homes. I find products no longer made. Maybe still available but "reformulated" by EPA rules with all the guts taken out of them .... a New And Improved version.
What makes me post this is I just came in from the garage from emptying the contents of 3 cans of WD 40 that had lost their pressure into a glass jar . Actually easier to use for some jobs if one does not want wd. over spray. . Leave a can of Wd40 out in an unheated garage and by winters end it seems to loose pressure. I get this stuff for pennies, or free . If you work on the amount of projects I do and are retired on a limited budget you know how much $$$ you can quickly spend on the "condiments" you need to pursue your hobbies.
Also, when you see those odd boxes of rusty nuts and bolts that everyone passes over stop and look at them.
Those junk boxes are usually a treasure trove of outdated slotted head machine screws that hardware stores no longer carry.
Just my thoughts for today....
Most all these cans, be it bug spray , lawn products, Wd 40 , wax , oil and paint will be gladly given away or sold for practically nothing. I love going into some of the older folks homes. I find products no longer made. Maybe still available but "reformulated" by EPA rules with all the guts taken out of them .... a New And Improved version.
What makes me post this is I just came in from the garage from emptying the contents of 3 cans of WD 40 that had lost their pressure into a glass jar . Actually easier to use for some jobs if one does not want wd. over spray. . Leave a can of Wd40 out in an unheated garage and by winters end it seems to loose pressure. I get this stuff for pennies, or free . If you work on the amount of projects I do and are retired on a limited budget you know how much $$$ you can quickly spend on the "condiments" you need to pursue your hobbies.
Also, when you see those odd boxes of rusty nuts and bolts that everyone passes over stop and look at them.
Those junk boxes are usually a treasure trove of outdated slotted head machine screws that hardware stores no longer carry.
Just my thoughts for today....