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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Oct 2006
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Chinese boat crap
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:55:00 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
On Apr 23, 1:47?pm, Tim wrote:
On Apr 23, 7:58?am, wrote:
?I'm not as bad as he was, though,
he'd save bent nails!
now, that's a bit over the top.....
Oh, yeah, it was almost like he was obsessed with being frugal! But,
he built some cool stuff! He made his own fold down camper with a pick
up truck rear end with gears removed, some channel iron, plywood,
canvas, and bent conduit. It worked like a champ! Now the funny thing
was somewhere, who know an auction, or whatever, he had freakin' BAGS
of heavy duty zippers. He sowed his the canvas and made window, using
the zippers, there were zippers in that camper of every color of
rainbow!
Good for him, not throwing useful stuff away.
I was lucky when I bought my last house from a retired carpenter.
He left me a million different fasteners and fixtures in the basement.
Coffee can heaven. And a good bit of oak lumber too of various
millings.
All I has to add was the machine and pipe thread fittings and I was an
instant carpenter/plumber/nechanic for that big old house.
--Vic
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