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[papasmurf]

I suspect I am not the only one here who has a big box filled with nut, bolts, washers, springs, clips, and so on that "may come in useful one day."

No shed should be without one.

[PeteF]

A big box Papa?
Just the one??
Oh no, not me.

[Leon Novello]

I also used to have an ice cream container full of two-stroke spark plugs for my 1969 Yamaha YL1 100cc twin, which seldom could travel more than 100 miles without needing new plugs. SIGH!

[Gwilly]

I think my work shop has become one big box of may be useful toot.. Been saying for years i must sort this out but always distracted by finding some curio.

What gets me is i always find what i was looking for a few days after giving up and buying it from the hardware shop..

Only myself to blame..

[papasmurf]

Gwilly, my wife and I are always putting things somewhere safe never to be found again.

[Gwilly]

Ah yes, the somewhere safe... I've got one of those here somewhere if i could only remember..

May be close to the pile of single odd socks which must be some place within the boundary of this property..

Aliens, there to blame..

[Adrian]

No they're not, it's boring old decaying memory - sorry! I seem to have several different stages of odds-and-ends box based on level of likelihood of need of contents and may have to start another soon for the variety of 1/4" BSP fittings I seem to be collecting...



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[Scalyback]

1/4 BSP ?



Are they Gas lighting pipes?

[PeteF]

British standard plumbing. There are two main types, straight and tapered. I've got boxes of old pluming stuff that will never, ever come in handy but, just in case......

[John R]

When my father got too old to enjoy it anymore, I took over his boat from him. it was a 20' cabin cruiser with a Johnson outboard. One day a friend, who was a dispatch rider, was steering it through a bridge near Camden Lock when a trip boat appeared coming in the opposite direction. He stuck the motor in reverse and, finding it didn't stop like a triple disc Kawasaki, he rammed the throttle as far as it would go, breaking the linkage. For ages I tried to get a new throttle linkage and made numerous attempts to bodge the old one from my own supply of bits and pieces, all unsatisfactory. Then my father, an ex REME tank mechanic, died and I sadly cleared out his shed and his collection of stuff in old Old Holborn tins. Amongst the nuts bolts and stuff, I found a brand new spare throttle linkage for a Johnson outboard. I could have killed him....