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Quote from: Jim on February 03, 2021, 07:59:30 pm

This one is a bit embarrassing.....when I have to spray multiple items on my turn table I place them so that the overspray falls onto surrounding items and ones at the back...done this for awhile now and it really makes a rattle can go a LOT further.

I do this with Ballistol

Love Ballistol!

I buy it now in the bulk size and put it into a stove atomizer pump cleaner bottle...so much cheaper than the aerosol cans.

regarding esbit fuel , I probably have 10 lbs of it now (as I never use it !) , many sellers praise the amount of esbit they have to send along with the engine , I have actually sent them a message on occasion & told them to just keep it.

I use it in my Jensen 76 as it was my first engine found at my great-grandpa’s, so it brings back memories of running it... fun to use now and then, like adding coal or wood.

Also let the kids use it in some old beat up Wilescos and Mamod TE’s/SR’s outdoors.

The majority of my brass and copper is from my sons (plumbing company) scrap pile.

Some of us are sooooo tight, we even reduce the voltage to our electrically heated boilers 

Gotta' pay that one !!!!!

      

I'm getting a kick out of reading everything you guys are saying from drying out paper towels to saving boxes
and packing material. Now I'm looking around and thinking what's out in the garage and the one at the cabin
and thinking, do they have a camera in my house. I'm no different. Must be a guy steam thingy.
I used to put boxes inside of others for a while. Now I cut the tape and fold them flat before they go into
another box. I don't stop until it feels like a block of wood. They stack so nice too. Nine garbage bags of
packing, four of peanuts, four of that brown heavy paper(I like some of that down when deep frying), and one
of bubble wrap with two boxes of bubbles on the side. Lots of old tee shirts, socks, and underwear(washed one
more time). Toothbrushes, pill bottles for screws, little zip lock bags from items I bought.
I distill my own tap water and have one dozen gallon jugs. When I get down to two I fire it up and in two days
they're all filled up.   It's either a guy thing or a sickness, not sure.

I bet none of you guys throw out old toothbrushes either 

I've even got some of the grandchildrens ones from when they were really little.....those little toothbrushes are really handy       

All of the above .... guilty as charged!!!

Jim, have you started saving your swarf to melt down and re-use?