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Post something Weird or Random

@Nitro

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maycontainthunder said:
Coincidental. I don't have pictures but a mate got hold of loads of old science lab clamps. From these he created several 'clampasaurus' dinosaurs.

It's better than throwing them in the scrap bin.
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Some just don't have our vision.

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This started out as a pressure gauge I found at an open air fleamarket for $2.
I was going to add it to my compressed air system until I realized that it was in fact sort of old and from an outfit that was formerly located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA.
I live in close proximity to Pittsburgh and for a short while was a resident of the Highland Park section of it.

One day the lightbulb went on and I started gathering old valves out of my stash then hit the local hardware store to start buying brass pipe nipples and fittings.
For about a year I gathered more and more of the brass and found a new old stock sprinkler head in one of my many piles of "stuff".

The concept was to build a decorative steampunk lamp but didn't want the norm either.
The flicker flame neon bulbs were chosen to simulate active fires burning on a gas well.
It took about five years to complete because the wiring for the bulbs was all done inside of the plumber's nightmare.
Because I didn't want to mar the brass fittings with a pipe wrench, a strap wrench was the hot ticket, but at the same time, often not strong enough to properly clock the fittings.
That required about a thousand trial fits with slight mods to the internal threads with a tap to arrive at the desired clocking.
One of the valve handles is a dummy while the other has the valve stem gland nut bound down too tight to prevent the gate from cutting off the wiring that runs thru it.
The gauge was fitted with a Schraeder port that is hidden inside of the tee below the gauge to raise the indicated pressure, but unfortunately there is a very slight leak in it somewhere and the gauge only holds pressure for about a year.
The old soda acid fire extinguisher was donated to my cause.
In order for the lamp to be stable, a whole bunch of ankle weights were placed inside of it because the brass made the damned thing too top heavy to be safe.
The most difficult part of the assembly was what held the project up the most.

The power cord was ran thru the extinguisher wand and the elbow on the extinguisher had too tight of a corner in it for the wire to clear it.

Eventually I used a cordless drill to rotate a section of concrete reinforcement tie wire to get it around the bend.
From there is was a matter of using that wire to fish the electrical cord thru it.

A highly unnecessary project that consumed both a lot of time, thought and money, but whatever, it is definitely weird and random 🤣
 
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Nitro said:
Some just don't have our vision.

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This started out as a pressure gauge I found at an open air fleamarket for $2.
I was going to add it to my compressed air system until I realized that it was in fact sort of old and from an outfit that was formerly located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA.
I live in close proximity to Pittsburgh and for a short while was a resident of the Highland Park section of it.

One day the lightbulb went on and I started gathering old valves out of my stash then hit the local hardware store to start buying brass pipe nipples and fittings.
For about a year I gathered more and more of the brass and found a new old stock sprinkler head in one of my many piles of "stuff".

The concept was to build a decorative steampunk lamp but didn't want the norm either.
The flicker flame neon bulbs were chosen to simulate active fires burning on a gas well.
It took about five years to complete because the wiring for the bulbs was all done inside of the plumber's nightmare.
Because I didn't want to mar the brass fittings with a pipe wrench, a strap wrench was the hot ticket, but at the same time, often not strong enough to properly clock the fittings.
That required about a thousand trial fits with slight mods to the internal threads with a tap to arrive at the desired clocking.
One of the valve handles is a dummy while the other has the valve stem gland nut bound down too tight to prevent the gate from cutting off the wiring that runs thru it.
The gauge was fitted with a Schraeder port that is hidden inside of the tee below the gauge to raise the indicated pressure, but unfortunately there is a very slight leak in it somewhere and the gauge only holds pressure for about a year.
The old soda acid fire extinguisher was donated to my cause.
In order for the lamp to be stable, a whole bunch of ankle weights were placed inside of it because the brass made the damned thing too top heavy to be safe.
The most difficult part of the assembly was what held the project up the most.

The power cord was ran thru the extinguisher wand and the elbow on the extinguisher had too tight of a corner in it for the wire to clear it.

Eventually I used a cordless drill to rotate a section of concrete reinforcement tie wire to get it around the bend.
From there is was a matter of using that wire to fish the electrical cord thru it.

A highly unnecessary project that consumed both a lot of time, thought and money, but whatever, it is definitely weird and random 🤣
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I'm a slight lightweight by not making much anymore. However, while clearing dad's collection of total crap (this includes selling 460kg of brass he'd hoarded) out the shed(s) I found these two brass gears of about 3" diameter. I got me some very different paperweights.. once cleaned up and lightly polished,

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Well here we are once again in my photography studio/laundry room.

Doing a revamp of my living area so "stuff" had to be moved.
"Stuff" includes a polished airplane propeller from a Piper Cherokee PA-28-180 that Mrs. Dunham had a prop strike with after wheelbarrowing the craft down the runway when landing that now resides on my TV stand.
( it was cool growing up as an airport bum)

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Some call some of the things in my Museum of Oddities clutter, but to me it is simply "stuff"

I got lots of "stuff"
Lots of my "stuff" gets photographed on the lid of my washing machine because of a bright light in there.
 
Nitro said:
Well here we are once again in my photography studio/laundry room.

Doing a revamp of my living area so "stuff" had to be moved.
"Stuff" includes a polished airplane propeller from a Piper Cherokee PA-28-180 that Mrs. Dunham had a prop strike with after wheelbarrowing the craft down the runway when landing that now resides on my TV stand.
( it was cool growing up as an airport bum)

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Some call some of the things in my Museum of Oddities clutter, but to me it is simply "stuff"

I got lots of "stuff"
Lots of my "stuff" gets photographed on the lid of my washing machine because of a bright light in there.
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Are you sure that's not just a 'prop'?
(bad pun! 😁)
 
Nice polish on that prop. If that were my brass lamp, it would be gleaming, like the exposed plumbing to my water heater. I'd show you my prop, but it is a serious engineering illustration, and so does not qualify.
 
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