Old Fools Journal: Look at all that crap

Since mothers day I have been hiding under the bed sucking my thumb. It all started the Friday before with a bad experience with PEOPLE. Rude assholes. It was all downhill from there. So under the bed I went and into my mouth I stuck my thumb. I also took drugs. The details of the whole thing I am trying to forget with "Shop Cleaning". I am not disposed to depression but I can see how it kills people.
So I decided to clean a little spot in the Laboratory "shop" for therapy. It snowballed and soon I could see the floor. I haven't seen the floor for over a year.
Here is some stuff I found.


In the top of the picture is a finish saw that belonged to my grandfather Tom League. He was a finish carpenter and the saw is older than I am. He was the last to sharpen it and it is still sharp.
Directly above the saw is a coaster brake that I have never been able to reassemble. First time i've had that problem.
The small oil can just below the saw on the right side of the picture belonged to my dad. It is very old. I keep it next to the drill press to squirt on metal I am drilling to make some really good smoke.
Next to that is a M1 Carbine magazine, fully loaded with 30 caliber carbine cartridges. It is an inadequate round sent into service by people that would never be put in harms way. The M1 is one thing but the M1 carbine is a whole other thing.
The green thing is a wire wound 1.5 ohm resister, I found two of them, I don't know why I have them. Probably for a current limiter for some project or other.
Next to that all the metal parts to a really nifty hand cranked slicer. I'll rebuild it one day.
Between the two are some little silver things I call hog nails. I don't know why but they are used in upholstery
Below that a beautiful solid brass cabinet handle. I need to get a close up of that it's really nice. It has a butterfly on it.
The brass thing on the left is a peep site for a door. You have all seen them in hotel doors. Did you know that there is a device that reverses this peephole. Little tiny thing, put it up against the outside of the peep and see the entire room. I tape over those things.
The GM coach and Schwinn badges are self explanatory but the tool at the bottom is a complete mystery. It came in some bargain toolbox or other and no one I know can identify it.

I don't think I need to buy anymore of these and this ain't all. I've got them in tool boxes and drawers everywhere. I could start a store.
Aahh! The floor. So that's what it looks like. The bucket in the middle is for the drip. It is raining.
This is looking the other way. The saw is finally inside where I can use it for small jobs. I still have to take it outside for big jobs.
Directly in the corner is a lazy Susan with two different grinder motors so I just spin it around to get the brush or grinder I want.
This nastiness is next. It just looks cluttered to you but it has a solid layer of dead bugs and cat hair under the layer of things. Oh fun. I have so many things that people throw away but I just know I can use.