Boast (metal related)

Id go with the 51' extension cord. They certainly do come in handy occasionally.

Gunner

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This is an awesome deal. The cable probably weighs 60 lbs?

I would also make an extension cord from it.

I got an 8 gauge, 70 foot cable from a welder that I resold. The welder I bought at Illinois Railway Museum. Miller SRH-333 or something.

A heavy duty cord like that would be a great cord for a 240/120 box, since it has the additional conductor for the neccessary neutral conductor (U.S.A.).

Since it's a little heavy to be luggaging around, winding it up on a handtruck would make moving it very easy. The addition of the handtruck would make a nice remote power center, possibly a tool box and a small work shelf, with receptacles for light and heavy duty electrical equipment (welder, drill, grinder, lights etc).

Having the cord carried by the handtruck might minimize dragging the cord on the ground. If the cord is wound up on a reel on the handtruck, the cord can be payed out as you roll the cart along.

I made a 50' extension cord for my old buzz box long ago, and it has really come in handy over the years. I can get my MIG welder well into the driveway and that's been very helpful as I don't have one of those garages you can get a car into (anymore)...

Jon

Definitely make an extension cord from it. I have a 100' #6 4 wire 240V cord I made up from a coil I got at Industrial Supply years ago. Very handy. JR Dweller in the cellar

Ivan Vegvary wrote:

Out of curiosity -- what target instrument? Piano? Accordion? Guitar? Or much more rare -- English system concertina?

Enjoy, DoN.

On 20 Jul 2010 01:03:55 GMT, "DoN. Nichols" wrote the following:

Alto kazoo.

-- Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. -- Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711

DoN, Mainly piano, although I do a little saxophone once in a while and have fooled around with trumpet and trombone years ago. Did a little piano bar work when I was in my late 20's - early 30's. If I include my numerous 'fake books' I probably have over 15,000 titles. My playing can be best described as 'cocktail style' and I'm most knowledgeable about music from the '30s and '40s.

DoN, do you play?

Ivan Vegvary

I play English system concertina, and pennywhistle (tin whistle). Of the two, the English system concertina is more capable of playing piano music in that it has a full chromatic scale. Though the various Duet systems are better if you want to play the left hand part separately. The English system alternates scale nots between hands, making runs a lot faster, and usually all the notes to a given chord are on a single side.

Enjoy, DoN.

I put my $2.00 - 150' air hose on a cheap ass hose real I got out of garbage, put the female disconnect out the water in location and use a short whip at the work site. I did have to make a new crank for it and put new pluming to get the connector out the centre of the spool. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

A 150' length of most anything isn't a trivial task to manage or move around, and that length of air hose can be one of the tougher. I wrangled air hoses for a number of years working in autobody shops, but not often now.

It's a handy trait to be able to see another worthwhile use for something that's been discarded.. you maximized your scrounging with a few dollars spent.