OT Cheep shop-vac

On 5 Sep 2009 at 11:04, Tom Peters wrote: Like electronics, wood is where you find it. My workbench top is made up of glued-up 1x2 rock-maple drawer slides (set on the 1x side) that I bought from a cabinet shop when they went to ball-bearing slides. I paid $10 for the pallet load--they were going to sell it for firewood because each piece had a groove in it. My workbench is weighed down with about 400 lbs of Garry oak slabs mill for just such occasions). I'm finishing rebuilding a balcony here on the house that the ants got into. The deck (under the membrane) is 3/4" MDO plywood (paper one side, the other side is a sanded "A" veneer picked up as surplus western red-cedar, but the local lumberyard stock clerk asked me if I'd be interested in some clear Port Orford-cedar that someone had dropped off for half the price, as his commercial contractors wouldn't touch it. Most of the small amount that gets logged here is sent to Japan to build coffins and temples--you never see it being sold by retailers. After working with it, I'm sorely tempted to go back and make an offer to take his remaining stock for some future project. Re-using wood is another route. I've got lots of stuff made from reused old-growth wood. It's nothing like the stuff you find at Home Depot. I'm certain that other listers will have similar stories about electronics gear picked up on the outside chance that someday they might someday find a use for it. --Chuck