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that piece of wood your dad kept in the garage | Clems massive hoarding problem

mayermakes

I finally found a use for that one piece of wood my dad kept in the garage for decades and I took it over to store it in the basement.
An old laptop, that has all the right connectors you would now never find on a laptop like RS232 with a broken keyboard. A cheap sata SSD with a fresh ubuntu install.
the holy piece of wood (not even a single cut needed) and a trash picked TV mount culminate into a dedicated Laser control computer.

Also featuring a metal bracket that was left over form the latest Element14presents video.

Did you ever use that one piece of wood ? I know you have one there is no point in denying it.

  • in reply to mayermakes

    My wife acts like it eats bread, and space, and money.  BUT she also expects me to fix everything NOW.  When I use one of those boards (or screws or whatever)... good / not good.  I think we can all figure out "why".

  •   for the "WIN".  It feels like... VICTORY!!!

    My Dad was a woodworker.  When it came time to clean out his house, there was wood EVERYWHERE (no lie).  Scraps of every shape, size and type of wood.  In his mind, he had gotten rid of most of it.  THANK YOU, DAD.  Kissing heart   I hauled away over 2,500 pounds of it.  Ever see a gross of wooden yardsticks at someone's house?  How about a 1 foot diameter bundle of 1/4" dowels?  Just because... maybe.  Fortunately, I was able to give the dowels and yardsticks away to another woodworker.
    My son will probably say the same thing of me.

    Yes, I have more than one piece of wood - but I have a whole lot less than I used to.  AND... I'm way more apt to make "that piece" fit what I need it to fit than I used to be.

  • Well done!  You never know when you will need anything.  You usually find out shortly after you throw it away.

    I have been cleaning my shop up, hoping to finish up some of the long-delayed project in there.  I decided to buy a couple of 35-gallon trash cans to hold odd board ends. When my granddaughter came over the other day, she was over the moon with the wood scrapes in the cans, she asked if she could have some of the wood. She ended up finding a nearly perfect cube that she decorated and took home.  One man's trash ............

  • in reply to DAB

    you never know when you will need it. its eats no bread just takes up a little space..so it can stay..for a while

  • I know what you mean.

    When I installed my two monitor VESA mount, I needed a piece of wood to set the clamp so it would tighten.

    Luckily I had a piece just the right size.

    Hoarding is its own reward.