[AT] Cleaning the shop (or not)

[Mike]

I've actually have become a collector of scrap steel and junk for just 
that reason, rebuilding what I have if a part isn't available. I'm that 
guy at the auction who will buy "all that crap in the corner $2" when 
the auctioneer gets frustrated trying to sell a pile of junk. Throw a 
lot away, but usually find a couple gems too.

Mike M

On 3/11/2014 11:24 AM, Carl Gogol wrote:
> Funny how that tossing stuff works -- At work they told us to clean up
> everything that we haven't used in 6 months.  Specialty instruments, home
> made irreplaceable fixtures were tossed like garbage by the "want to look
> good to their boss" management types.  What goes around comes around - an
> old product that was discontinued was resurrected abut 3 months later (by
> the same bright people) - you know what was missing - all the spare parts,
> fixtures and specialty instruments for developing and testing.
> I am a saver, maybe a borderline hoarder, but I often have something to make
> it work and share with friends and neighbors.  It would be nice if we could
> have a shop that was just a shop for working on things, but we all have so
> many projects and so little time that the space we have gets cluttered or
> filled with new projects and toys.  Fortunately, I do not think it is fatal.
> Carl
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gunnells, Bradley R
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:41 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Cleaning the shop (or not)
>
> That is exactly my problem. My family tells me to toss things. But they
> never seem to complain when I have "just the ticket" for fixing something
> for them.  :-)
>
> If I just had more buildings and more time to work in them I'd be set.
>
> Brad
>
> On Mar 11, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net> wrote:
>
>> On 3/11/2014 5:20 AM, Don Bowen wrote:
>>> On 3/10/2014 8:20 PM, Greg Hass wrote:
>>>>    It is such a mess I don't know where to start (a lot of people say
>>>> start at the beginning) but I'm not sure where that is.
>>> I start at any door.  If something in front of me does not belong there
>>> it gets moved.  If junk it goes out the door, otherwise it gets put
>>> where it belongs.  I then just work down the line.  When done everything
>>> is (mostly) where it belongs and the pile out front is gotten rid of.
>>>
>> My problem is that I don't know what is really worthless junk to throw
>> away and what it a possible valuable item I might need to use in another
>> patch up job. In 40+ years of patching up old machinery with pieces of
>> junk that i have saved, I now am afraid to throw anything away for fear
>> that I will need it next week/year , etc.
>>
>> Ralph in Sask.
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