It was emptied a few nights beforehand
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They weren't free, I had to do some work for the first one and we traded some stuff for the second one. Got lucky for sure though. I've never seen Vidmars or Lista cabinets at auction anywhere around here
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That would explain the lapse of reasoning them...... It was empty......It was emptied a few nights beforehand
I was down at the local free pick bone yard, guy dumped off 2 tall filing cabinets. while I was looking for other "treasure" and thinking what one would be good for, came to me, just may work O.K. For some "dust" and "lead eggs"storage. While checking to see how heavy it was and if anything in it, found 4 lt. of new 15/40 Rottella in it.Loaded them, added a 40inch piece of 21/2 in. shaft and a few other pieces of mm. Some times hard to believe the cost to buy "stuff" now.
@Dan Dubeau mentioned free treadmills tonight. Just so happened that I was lining the vidmar drawers with treadmill belting tonight so I snapped a few pictures. But first I had to test the fridge.
Sure enough, a 30 just fits.
Doing 1/2 drawer at a time.
Tedious task but way better with the thin belting in the drawers.
Every time I go to the dump I find at least one treadmill and cut the belting off for liners and such.
Sure enough, a 30 just fits.
Doing 1/2 drawer at a time.
Tedious task but way better with the thin belting in the drawers.
Every time I go to the dump I find at least one treadmill and cut the belting off for liners and such.
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A free treadmill is the ultimate home shop repurposing find. motor/controls, steel tubing, drawer liner, big sheet of MDF/ply. Way better 2nd uses than the original one as a clothes hanger. 
Oddly, the electrical inspector let my mother put a pantry in front of her electrical panel box as long as it was on low friction wheels so it was easily moved.
Maybe that's just because she was a sweet old lady, or maybe because she could shame anyone into anything, or maybe because she can kill with one look. I dunno, but it did pass!
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I can see about a dozen things in that corner that nobody under 25 can use or identify
The photographer isI can see about a dozen things in that corner that nobody under 25 can use or identify
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Something else for the must make list lol
Axle shaft, torsion bar, and a ballscrew straight out of the woodstove.
Able to machine the torsion bar, which should be 4340 chromolly, but couldn't get anything but a terrible surface finish no matter what I tried.
Going to try the ballscrew next. It was super hard before. The last ballscrew I machined was softish on the ends.
Just playing around, need a pin for a job tomorrow. The torsion bar isn't going to work. Machinable but terrible finish.
the ballscrew machines pretty nice after the woodstove treatment.
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That was entertaining. To try and see what was in that corner.I can see about a dozen things in that corner that nobody under 25 can use or identify
Did you try using a HSS shear tool?