Dave, I wish I had your handyman ability. Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 20, 2012, at 12:03 PM, "ctxmf74" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Bob Werre <bob@...> wrote: > > The old story about trash and treasure. > > In my case, on a Saturday I was at the studio cleaning up, so a trip to > > our dumpster was in order. We had a half dozen of those large metal > > containers. One contained carpeting that was being trashed. I looked > > it over and decided I had found a treasure. It's been in my RR room for > > many years and nobody has ever said--"this looks like it came from the > > dump". > > > > Hi Bob, About 20 years ago the civil engineering firm I worked for decided to > remodel their office. I came back from the field one day and found a huge > pile of stuff in the parking lot so loaded up my truck with the bounty. They > had replaced all their cubicle dividers and counters etc. with the new > modular stuff covered with cloth. The old one's were custom made with milled > redwood frames holding mahogany plywood panels. I got about 50 sheets of 1/4 > mahogany ply cut into 4 by 4 panels, more sheets of 3/8 painted fir ply, all > the clear redwood support frames, all the old counter and storage cabinets, > and even a huge mahogany conference table( I guess someone had already > claimed the matching chairs) I did get some metal drafting chairs though. > Over the years I built 3 O scale layouts using the plywood( which was late > 50's or early 60's era material when cabinet grade plywood was very nice > stuff) and probably have enough left to build my S scale layout. I used most > of the redwood to make new window trim when I installed new windows in my > house, I turned the conference table into a great layout and cutting table in > my shop,and I still have a couple of the heavy drafting chairs floating > around the shop with the back removed to make nice swiveling stools for > working at the bench. > Too bad they didn't replace the carpet too huh? ...DaveBranum > > > > > > >
