After replacing my original late 1800's DH windows, I have a several dozen cast iron sash weights, all around 8 lbs each. I hate to toss or even scrap them, but so far have not come up with a useful repurposing means... Thoughts/suggestions? Thanks in advance
Send them to Jack, they can counterbalance his drill press table :-) :-) :-0
That's funny (and actually what stimulated my query :)
Your options:
1 - Toss/scrape them and then a couple of months from now come up with the perfect use for them.2 - Hang on to them and never come up with any use for them for as long as you live.
Send one to Jack to use as a counterweight for his drill press table (as per Swing).
Thanks...any of you comedians considering a second job? :)
If you don't fish, find someone local who does as a fisherman can usually find uses for them.
On Wednesday, December 7, 2016 at 12:55:01 PM UTC-6, snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote :
n cast iron sash weights, all around 8 lbs each. I hate to toss or even scr ap them, but so far have not come up with a useful repurposing means...
Are they cast iron or wrought iron? Before about 1850, most iron was wrou ght iron. If your irons had been recycled, they might be pre-1850/1860, t here abouts, so they may be wrought iron.
Is there a blacksmith in your area? A smithy might be interested in them. Maybe have him/her make a few holddowns for you. Or a few other items you might like or need.... decor (olde time?) strap hinges, gate latches, door knock, decor type items. Is there such a thing as a iron mistletoe hanger ? Need a froe? LOL.
As for as any fees, might can trade some of the irons for partial labor cos ts.... or sell them to the smithy. The smithy might have a few ideas for y a. What might be appropriate for a late 1800s home, that can be made with them?
Otherwise, as Karl says, boat (skiff) anchors or trout/catfish line weights , weights for nets.
Sonny
And to add to that great list and mention of a Smithy - if you get a dump of soil or sand or wood... tarp over it for the rain.. and weight down the corners and sides with 8 pound weights.
I have to use cement block about that size for the same purpose.
Mart> >> After replacing my original late 1800's DH windows, I have a several dozen cast iron sash weights, all around 8 lbs each. I hate to toss or even scrap them, but so far have not come up with a useful repurposing means...
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zen cast iron sash weights, all around 8 lbs each. I hate to toss or even s crap them, but so far have not come up with a useful repurposing means...
ought iron. If your irons had been recycled, they might be pre-1850/1860, there abouts, so they may be wrought iron.
. Maybe have him/her make a few holddowns for you. Or a few other items yo u might like or need.... decor (olde time?) strap hinges, gate latches, doo r knock, decor type items. Is there such a thing as a iron mistletoe hang er? Need a froe? LOL.
osts.... or sell them to the smithy. The smithy might have a few ideas for ya. What might be appropriate for a late 1800s home, that can be made wit h them?
ts, weights for nets.
I assume they are cast, based on the casting marks and the fact they are so mewhat what fragile...Not many smiths in the area, but I have not looked re al hard...yet... I have used them for tarp weights, but purely a stopgap measure as tarps ar e not permanent parts of either our architecture or landscaping ;) Thanks for input...
Use to hold a pop-up canopy for outdoor (sales?) to keep in place? Weigh down a canopy cover or sides? Use to weigh down a base for a floor lamp? Table? Yard Umbrella? Come up with a project that could benefit from weight?
Clean up an old tractor tire, glue the weights in to balance it and then sell it as a new exercise device. Flipping one around the yard is apparently a great form of over-all strength building.
Worst case sell them to a metal artist or for scrap.
I've used them as rollers to move heavy objects like large slabs of blue stone... they serve well as weights too!
Body dumps in the local swamp?
-BR
Nah ... for that we stuff'em in an oil drum and fill it with concrete. Old Dudley J. LeBlanc had the patent on that too ... where you think those Yankees got the idea for Jimmy Hoffa, eh?
I immediately thought that was coming next... doesn't surprise me it came in several times...
I like the idea of using them for holding down tarps on firewood stack, but the correct answer was get rid of them immediately and then think of a use, or keep them forever and never, ever find a use. Your choice.
On 12/10/2016 11:14 AM, Jack wrote: ...
The "correct" answer would be to list them on eBay with all the other useless junk that somebody seems to want most of, anyways...boggle the mind what actually does seem to sell.
I think, historically, wrought iron graveyard gates were stolen, for dumping bodies in the River.
*He can make graveyard gates, with the weights, then sellum on Ebay!Sonny
Tell me about it!
nb
if it is windy there make a wind chime and if it is not then make one anyway and if you hear them chime you know there is a tornado or hurricane or earthquake
sure a late warning system but at least you repurposed them
sort of like this
buckaroos.homestead.com/files/piks/wyoming_windsock.jpg
Hey, never let history get in the way of a good story, cher. Especially after you just drank an old bottle of vintage HadACol, for the sniffles, of course ...
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