What's the oddest thing you have laying around your house..

[V1 Rotate]

This drives my wife nuts. I have about 15 old bench and machinists vises, none of them restored, and some of them relatively unusual. This doesn't include the vises actually in service in the garage, basement, and on my movable cast grinder stand or set up to be used on my mill. The only Charles Parker I own has 4 inch wide jaws. No, none of them are for sale but I expect them to be the first thing to go when I die. They are all American made except for one Italian and one Brit. They are not valuable but good quality American vises are not cheap to buy any more used or new. I would post a picture but the last forum I did folks started to make fun of me. They make fun of the anvil collectors even more. Yes, people who don't use anvils actually collect them. Bill S

 

[Nframecollector]

Man...................I'd like to see some anvil pictures. I've been looking at old anvils for years. I even have a book about them. Me, I collect old bullet moulds and precision measuring tools. And firearms too of course!

 

[perfectcircle1]

Haha...you are correct, sir! Never been married, been having too much fun, so far! I guess that is why I have the 4 motorcycles, a large gun safe in the living room, and 2 more gun safes in the den, plus a closet full of ammo (I realize there are some really fortunate guys who have these things, and lots more cool stuff, and have a wife who enjoys/appreciates them as well...hats off to them!) When I began collecting guns, back in the early 80's, my Mother kept saying to me, "You know, you're going to have to get rid of those when you get married!" My answer to her was always, "If some woman expects me to marry her, she'll have to take the whole package, not just the parts she wants to pick and choose!" I've had a couple of close calls, but haven't taken the plunge...yet.




I would very much like to see what he would be able to do with it, but I'm completely unwilling to spend the 1000's of dollars that he'd charge for the privilege!





Thank you very much, sir. What do I win?

My friends have said I should have it mounted in my yard, pointed towards the street. It would be funny, but in my neighborhood, it would be gone within a week, if not sooner.




I appreciate the kind offer. I really don't think I'd care to sell it...it's a memento of my youth, when I was working on the F-106. Besides...I'm still hoping to hear from member DR505 about selling his F-4 ejection seat...it'd look great next to the missile. However, one never knows...if you'd care to PM me, I'll keep the PM, and if it ever turns out that I decide to turn loose of it, I'd let you know.

Tim

You win.......my envy

 

[jughed440]

a neat sign found at a yard sale....not sure of its age

and an unusual stained bottle....is it just me, or does the image that appears when the bottle is turned upside down look like someone looking upwards???

 

[NeoBuckeye]

I have a small collection of Kodak Brownie cameras, the art deco models look the nicest.
I have 2 of these Solex bikes = French pedal bikes with a 49cc 2 stroke engine mounted over the front tire.
I have one almost restored, and this one below, is a "barn find".
I never got to start this project with my father before he passed.

 

[perfectcircle1]

I have a small collection of Kodak Brownie cameras, the art deco models look the nicest.
I have 2 of these Solex bikes = French pedal bikes with a 49cc 2 stroke engine mounted over the front tire.
I have one almost restored, and this one below, is a "barn find".
I never got to start this project with my father before he passed.

That bike is super interesting. I think i might have seen one in a movie. Any more info on it?

 

[Taurus627]

Well, guess this would qualify:

Made one day playing with my new CNC lathe!!

 

[4006990]

Perry The Penguin (Avon Soap Dish) 50 years?

 

[NeoBuckeye]

That bike is super interesting. I think i might have seen one in a movie. Any more info on it?

This is a model 3200, from about the early 50's.
Top speed is about 30 MPH. I have not rode mine under engine power yet.
I am not sure what I will do with it, I just thought I was a neat machine

Steve McQueen rode a later model Solex on the set of the movie "LeMans" but have been unable to copy a link to a picture from the Internet to post.
The Solex is still being produced, and a new one is about $1200.

 

[mstuhr]

Boy I missed the boat!

Howdy,
I thought it said OLDEST!
I'm sitting here in the Stuhr museum surrounded by oil paintings of flying elephants with serpent heads on their trunks and dragonfly wings, framed poster of a presidential candidate naming "Bigfoot" as a VP hopeful, paper hats, fish themed whiskey decanter collection along with ceramic monkey and alligator collection (lots of em')
But my favorite is a remnant left over from childhood. It was a really nice 'Woody the Woodpecker" cookie jar. I'd say fifty years ago Woody was decapitated in a household accident. He stayed like that as a damaged but usable cookie jar up until the late 70's when a little brother and Incredible Hulk fan unwillingly provided a head transplant for the once damaged jar.
Good as new!

Thanks
Mike

 

[Frank237]

A pair of Curling stones. My Wife watches Curling on TV occasionally and finds the sport interesting. I was at a gun show and a guy had the set, rather old, in a box. IIRC I paid $70 for them...made a great Christmas present for her. I belive the iinsets on the handles may be ivory.

I have several tips from myasaur teeth. The dinosaurs that were native to the Choteau, MT area and gave birth to the idea that they mothered their young. Cool part was that the teeth were given to me by Professor Horner when I visited the site years back.

Also have some coprolite from the site as well.

 

[Onomea]

An elephant tusk.

 

[ralph7]

Well, guess this would qualify:

Made one day playing with my new CNC lathe!!

Did one like that on a manual over 35 years ago.
Cut and threaded internally and the OD threads hide the joint quite well.

 

[Onomea]

My dad could probably take this one. He has a old steel diaphragm (or what ever the hell they are called) in the original box with instructions and the METAL WIRE used to put it in and take it out. Thinks its close to 100 years old, found it in the wall of a house he was helping tear apart.

I think this is the winner right here. That has gotta be the oddest thing anyone has laying around the house.

 

[Mule88]

A casket I use for Halloween.

 

[steamloco76]

Slides from outer space.

In the late 1950's through early 1970's my uncle worked for a film lab and production company that handled a lot of US Government work, including NASA. He processed and proofed much of the 70MM(120 long roll) film shot with the Hasselblad cameras the astonauts used. He then assembled the shots picked-out after proofing into mounted slides. He kept many of the disgarded photos and assembed them into rolls, on of which he gave to my father. It contains about 80 photos from three different Gemini missions.

 

[KeithC]

A fawn my grandfather found on his farm. Sat on top of his roll top desk for ever, now sits on mine. At most it was only a month old and orphaned. It is now 73 years old.

 

[Hawkswill]

Frame

LOL, probably a cataraft rowing frame. It is used for White Water Rafting. No longer have the other equipment, but somehow still have that. My fiance and I had 4 different types of white water rafts......some capable of taking 9 people, one for one or two people and two for two people. This frame strapped on the two cataraft tubes and has a seat in the front and the back. The back one is for the "guide" as there are rowing cuffs there for the oars. The person on front is just there for the ride. OK, White Water lesson over, LOL......we did many class 5 rivers...........hmmmm, a while ago....think I need to make sure all my gear still fits and call a friend to plan a trip to West by God, VA! KEITH

 

[perfectcircle1]

This is a model 3200, from about the early 50's.
Top speed is about 30 MPH. I have not rode mine under engine power yet.
I am not sure what I will do with it, I just thought I was a neat machine

Steve McQueen rode a later model Solex on the set of the movie "LeMans" but have been unable to copy a link to a picture from the Internet to post.
The Solex is still being produced, and a new one is about $1200.

Being a car nut i think this is the one i was thinking of. I will have to go and rewatch that movie and see if i can spot it

 

[pinduck]

A set of babbit bearing scrapers, brand new ones never used from when we use to replace our own bearings on an old cylinder box board machine. They look like a big 3 cornered file with all the teeth ground off. i can't be the only old guy that has used them.

 

[Bkreutz]

Normally..... me.

 

[Muley Gil]

Howdy,
I thought it said OLDEST!
I'm sitting here in the Stuhr museum surrounded by oil paintings of flying elephants with serpent heads on their trunks and dragonfly wings, framed poster of a presidential candidate naming "Bigfoot" as a VP hopeful, paper hats, fish themed whiskey decanter collection along with ceramic monkey and alligator collection (lots of em')
But my favorite is a remnant left over from childhood. It was a really nice 'Woody the Woodpecker" cookie jar. I'd say fifty years ago Woody was decapitated in a household accident. He stayed like that as a damaged but usable cookie jar up until the late 70's when a little brother and Incredible Hulk fan unwillingly provided a head transplant for the once damaged jar.
Good as new!

Thanks
Mike

You used your little brother's head as a cookie jar handle? Now, that IS odd.

 

[mstuhr]

Wishful thinking

You used your little brother's head as a cookie jar handle? Now, that IS odd.

Howdy,
I wish that old jar still had Woody's head on it. I could probably turn it into a shooter grade N-frame.
Thanks
Mike

 

[shouldazagged]

Amelia Earhart. And Jimmy Hoffa. Use them for bookends.

 

[steamloco76]

Amelia Earhart. And Jimmy Hoffa. Use them for bookends.

What about D.B. Cooper?

 

[shouldazagged]

What about D.B. Cooper?

Doorstop.