Whats your coolest find on the net?
 

Today I was working in my welder, hobart wire feed MIG. The arc was getting weak, so I looked up it online and found that it might be a couple diodes. I found them, tested and thats it, open in both directions.
Not as fun as finding a blue brint for a model 1900 gattling gun to fabricate parts with.

What's your coolest find?

I wanted to put an audio jack in my old Mini to jack into my iPod and BMW service wanted to charge me almost $400. I found a tutorial online bought the under $10 parts and did it myself in about 20 minutes.

Is that sort of what you're looking for?

Yeah thats it. Like one time I was picking Pomegranates and watched a video on how to get all the seeds out easy, just whack it with a wood spoon. They all fall out

Naked women... it was all over from there.

#1 www.wildjohn.com - search craigslist by photo.

I have replaced ALL my furniture in my house, with repeated "good finds" using that website.

#2 found my girlfriend on the net - 2.5 years now and going strong.

I've recently started blacksmithing as a hobby, yeah weird i know, finding tools and parts to get started is like a treasure hunt every day it seems. It's not like you can buy this stuff at home depot!

I love working with iron. I'm making a trellis out of some old gates. Would love to get back into casting again

5.00 m33-2 (and higher) for the PSP :p

Lincoln Versaille rear end w/ e-brake cable still attached.

yeah it's becoming an addiction for sure, no limits to what you can make out of it. I've only just started welding so once I get the hang of that making my own forge becomes more doable...

what you use for casting? hard packed sand?

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Been buying up ancient roman coins lately. Mostly bronze dated 100-400 AD, but several turning up dating as far back to 450 BC. Starting to buy uncleaned lots directly from excavators and dealers around Europe. They show up encrusted with crud and shit fresh out of the ground. Takes some effort to clean them up nice and restore them without damaging the petina, but you make some cool finds and it's enjoyable for me. Cool that a person, with the help of the internet, can have their own little treasure hut in their own home. A lot of the dealers also deal in Egyptian, Greek, Romam, Persian, etc etc relics. Some really cool shit you can find online these days.

:) I'd love to own some roman coins but how do you know if you are buying fakes or not?

Gfy........

Look around for some of the larger Numismatics groups. There's lots of good forums and yahoo groups, many of which have "trusted dealer" lists. The risk is always there that you could wind up picking up fakes, and even experienced collectors can get caught on some good Bulgarian fakes, especially on eBay. Takes some reading up and I'm still learning myself. Some of the giveaways are in the eyes on the bust, and the thickness of lettering. Perfectly circular pieces are another dead giveaway. Ancient coins were struck, not cast, and a more skilled eye can tell by looking around the edg sof the coins for signs that the coin was actually cast. there's some good references with visual aids for picking out fakes. A keep point to consider when looking at auctions is that you have a good detailed picture, and that the seller is offering the EXACT coin pictured. Never buy from lots. Also, don't be tricked by people selling 1 kilo lots of uncleaneds on eBay and such. Or the guys who sell uncleaneds in lots of 500 for $500. These have been picked through like mad, most of what you'll get is small bronze many the size of a pencil eraser head, with little or no details (called slugs). You're basically buying chunks of garbage. This is a far bigger risk to run than acquiring fakes. A lot of the bronze coins from that 100-400 AD era really aren't all that rare at all. Millions of bronze were buried in that era, as there were no banks, and men buried their entire savings when they went off to war. Excavators with metal detectors can go out and find hundreds in a day. Even on eBay you can pop online and buy common authentic precleaned coins with good detail remaining for as little as $10/piece. Be weary buying anything out of Bulgaria for fear of fakes, and do not risk purchases from Turkey as it's actually illegal for them to sell out of the country. You risk the package never leaving the country.

Interesting for sure

If I was rolling in coin, I'd love to get into collecting Egyptian amulets and scarabs. That's a rich man's game though, even the really rough scarabs and partial amulets start around $500. With good specimens starting in that $1200-2000 range. Same goes with Greek pottery, you can get some really nice museum grade stuff, but it's pricey. There's some really really cool shit available though out of private collections from well regarded Egyptologists and archeologists. If you're into collecting this sort of antiquities, the Inca relics a relatively cheap. The locals loot sites and dig the shit up and sell it to resellers for pennies. There's a really good National Geographic documentary of Inca Mummies and antiquities. There's an entire town built right upon a huge burial ground, the children play amongst the scattered bones of their ancestors, and simply digging in your back yard can turn up bundles of relics.

they have a special sand for it. make a mold of something you think is cool out of wood or plastic, then pour aluminium in it. Then a lot of buffing. In high school, we made copies of hurst shifters and change the lettering, mine said CUDA on it instead of Hurst.
Grew up with a machine shop in the garage, made Harley valve guides during the summer for two summers, made some good cash for a 15 year old.

I have a penny collection, found a 1909 S VDB penny for change at McDonalds

My grandmother worked for the bank when I was little, and pennies were one of my first collections. I'd send people off with lists of what I was missing and had them filled in, then my parents started helping me buy the large pennies. As far as Canadian pennies and Nickels go, I don't think I'm missing anything. Dimes I have a pretty good grasp on, and common quarters . The rarer dimes and quarters start getting fucking pricey though. I don't know that I really care to drop a few hundred bucks on a single coin, ever.

Other than the pennies, I have some silver quarters and a silver cert dollar bill. Maybe someday I'll start back into it, would be cool to pass something like down the line

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ask paul m.

he was around in those times. he may have a few he no longer uses.

I think I saw some silver Denarius with his head stamped on them... :2 cents: