Don’t forget the Bakelite AK-47 mags!
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Garage Art
- Thread starter YamadudeXS650C
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Mikey,
I came across this youtube video of a guy using this magnetometer to find buried iron property markers:
A friend asked me this morning the question of how common is it in New York STate (or elsewhere) that a house built in the 60's (like hers) has buried iron property markers? Do you know?
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When we bought our property 17yrs ago we had a surveyor find the boundary's so I could find the property lines to locate my shop as near as I could to the property lines
Here they found both rear property stakes just using a metal detector and from there the established the front post locations
The house was built in the 50's
If you have utility lines between properties often they are on the property line
Kinda like sharing the easement between the 2
Here they found both rear property stakes just using a metal detector and from there the established the front post locations
The house was built in the 50's
If you have utility lines between properties often they are on the property line
Kinda like sharing the easement between the 2
In our area an iron rod of certain dimensions (something like 1" diameter by 2') was (still is?) required at boundary direction changes when lots are surveyed.
I had a job one summer cutting thousands of survey stakes off of 20' lengths of rod on an iron worker.
I found those rods at my current property boundaries.
I had a job one summer cutting thousands of survey stakes off of 20' lengths of rod on an iron worker.
I found those rods at my current property boundaries.
I know when we had our property survey a year or so back again due to problem neighbor they were able to find at least a couple of those marker rods I mower over top of them for decades.
PS: Neighbor had to tear down about half of his chicken coop that was over the line and since then went on to completely tear it down. Possibly because town rules say , buildings for livestock have to be something like 50 feet from property lines! And yes we had checked with the town and chickens if used for egg production, even personal use, are considered livestock!
Cool collection Dude - it looks like a very nice place in which to work!
When I worked for Schlumberger Wireline in West Africa, we used Simpson meters and in fact, they were simply referred to as "Simpsons" rather than as multimeters.
Wanting to not leave anyone out of this conversation, for those not familiar with this particular Simpson model, this is my 260 from the 1950's (as best my memory serves me with 2 beers in my head at the moment
), with Bakelite case and original leather strap handle. It weighs a whopping 3.6 pounds ( ! ) without the battery.
It is a prized item in my Bakelite collection. I love it.
), with Bakelite case and original leather strap handle. It weighs a whopping 3.6 pounds ( ! ) without the battery.It is a prized item in my Bakelite collection. I love it.
The Simpson 260 was the standard issue meter when I was a Navy bench tech in the 70's. Many, MANY hours probing around with one of those.
A quick look says they still make them. They’re now about $400.
....although not with a bakelite case these days, of course. They now use a phenolic plastic and Simpson differentiates the newer models from the one Jim used by labelling them the 260-8 and 260-8P.
It now weighs only 3 pounds, so internally there are likely some differences as well, perhaps.
I lucked out 20 years ago at a flea market and grabbed mine for $25. The lady didn't know what she had.
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My employer required me to buy a Simpson 260 back in the 80’s. I didn’t/wouldn’t do it. I had a digital and test lights. I might like to have it today, but still not necessary. I’d likely grab it if one came up cheap.
Did a walk around the shop today to photograph the garage art. Enjoy.
- Corvair hood complete with patina and bullet holes
- Numbers from my '77 Jag at Mid-Ohio High Performance Drivers Education Class
- Think with your dipstick Jimmy!
- Wauseon Bike Days & signed Chris Carr poster
- Fractions to decimals tin from the '50's
- Stay in your element
- More Wauseon Bike Days
- 12 cylinder cam covers off of the '77
- Santa is Great Stuff
- Passed the written test - lol
- Jag's my other past time
- Measure for the radiator, build a wooden mock up radiator, test fit, draw an engineering print for approval, build the radiator.
- First step to an Art Morrison Chassis. Turn the car upside down. Every six inches measure the height off the ground to the bottom of the frame, & measure the width. Mail the diagram back with your deposit on the real thing.
- Firebird cabinet
- John and Ashley Force Stand up
- Castrol logo tin
- Way out with a "destroyer helm wheel" off of "South Park"
- "South Park" bridge sign boards in 24k gold leaf
- Tin advertising on a hood with the Castrol logo
- Dick Trickle "5" from one of my shirts- BP lubricants chipped in money to have their name on the "B" pillar.
Nice collection! I especially like the Corvair hood. At a local car show on sunday I saw a beautiful '66 Corvair Monza Turbo.
What a car!
What a car!
Nice Corvair deck lid all patina like that, and the black Corsa is beauty. I had about 5 or 6 of them, drove 2 perhaps a total of 80,000 miles. Great, Great cars!
I somehow remember riding in one as a small child, one belonging to my uncle, to grandma's. I don't know why I remember it was a Corvair. Plus I remember it was white. The next one I see is 50 yrs later and there's a dozen of them at a motel on the way to a Corvair convention.
Used to have a 1qt Mason jar on a shop shelf filled with motor oil and a grotesquely twisted connecting rod cap, connecting rod fragments and piston skirt shards. That's all the was left inside the pan, as the connecting rod itself departed the block through an abruptly-created opening in its side. This was a reminder that a BMW E12 motor with stock rods cannot be wound consistently to 8200 rpm. (BMW 2002 oval track mini-sportsman)
That particular jacket was dirt track go-karts (90mph type), but yes; waay back, starting with dirt bikes in '72Did you do some racing JP ?