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263471 | Erik Levin | 2017‑10‑09 | Cast iron sash weights |
After entirely too much time digging through the archives without finding an answer, I will pose the general question: Any good uses for old sash weights? I have a large enough collection that I can't even slide the crate without a Johnson bar, and, if there is a use, I would prefer that to the $10 I'll get at the scrap yard in the current market, and they sit on CL forever, even at below scrap price. I pulled the best looking two or three to hold on to as material/weight for future needs, but the other 50 to 100 (some windows had extras at the bottom of the pocket, so #windows*4 doesn't do it for a number... I have no clue why, but I have some guesses) need to go if there is no practical use. No, I'm not putting back the single pane double-hungs in my house.... *** This message was sent from a convenience email service, and the reply address(es) may not match the originating address |
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263472 | Mike Rock <mikerock@m...> | 2017‑10‑10 | Re: Cast iron sash weights |
Great for holding down duck decoys, or better, goose decoys :) On 10/9/2017 5:43 PM, Erik Levin via OldTools wrote: > After entirely too much time digging through the archives without finding an answer, I will pose the general question: > > Any good uses for old sash weights? > > I have a large enough collection that I can't even slide the crate without a Johnson bar, and, if there is a use, I would prefer that to the $10 I'll get at the scrap yard in the current market, and they sit on CL forever, even at below scrap price. I pulled the best looking two or three to hold on to as material/weight for future needs, but the other 50 to 100 (some windows had extras at the bottom of the pocket, so #windows*4 doesn't do it for a number... I have no clue why, but I have some guesses) need to go if there is no practical use. > No, I'm not putting back the single pane double-hungs in my house.... *** This message was sent from a convenience email service, and the reply address(es) may not match the originating address > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > OldTools is a mailing list catering to the interests of hand tool > aficionados, both collectors and users, to discuss the history, usage, > value, location, availability, collectibility, and restoration of > traditional handtools, especially woodworking tools. > > To change your subscription options: > https://oldtools.swingleydev.com/mailman/listinfo/oldtools > > To read the FAQ: > https://swingleydev.com/archive/faq.html > > OldTools archive: https://swingleydev.com/ot/ > > OldTools@s... --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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263473 | Mike Rock <mikerock@m...> | 2017‑10‑10 | Re: Cast iron sash weights |
And speaking of duck/goose/waterfowl decoys. When I was much younger, we had a ranch in ND. When we bought it there were a couple dozen old refrigerator railroad cars there, sans wheels and stuff. They were insulated and you put the blocks of ice in on the top openings. You could pretty much put thirty or forty big blocks of ice in there, ten from each opening. The overhead supports for the ice ran down the walls, sloping toward the middle of the car so the ice slid down to the middle. These were the days when a kid knew every railroad car and it's type, tonnage and railroad logo. And the old wooden cars were everywhere then. We used to watch the Big Boys bringing the wheat harvest up the slope and across western North Dakota. Two of them on each train. Wheat headed for the ports in Superior and Duluth. Anyhow........all that cold was in there, along with swinging beef, courtesy of the insulation, which was SIX INCH thick cork inside the walls. SIX INCH!!! Man, that was an old decoy carver's heaven on earth. When we scrapped one car a fellow actually paid for all the cork, and there was a huge pile of it.....tons actually. Each block was about 2 feet by four feet by six inches thick. Don't remember what held it all together but is was sure waterproof. Dream on that, you decoy men!! Like they say, hindsight is 20-20.... --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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263475 | Ed Minch <ruby1638@a...> | 2017‑10‑10 | Re: Cast iron sash weights |
GGG Mike - you are very lucky to have seen that. Eighth picture down - Holy Crap https://oldmachinepress.com/2016/12/20/union-pacific-4-8-8-4-big-boy- locomotive/">https://oldmachinepress.com/2016/12/20/union-pacific-4-8-8-4-big- boy-locomotive/ <https://oldmachinepress.com/2016/12/20/union- pacific-4-8-8-4-big-boy-locomotive/">https://oldmachinepress.com/2016/12/20 /union-pacific-4-8-8-4-big-boy-locomotive/> serious horsepower. In the 1950’s my dad took us down to the tracks in Berea, Ohio (a town so small it did not have a square, but rather a triangle) at 7:15 after dinner to watch the Twentieth Century Limited go by on its way to Chicago - real fast. > On Oct 9, 2017, at 8:38 PM, Mike Rock |
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263476 | Mike Rock <mikerock@m...> | 2017‑10‑10 | Re: Cast iron sash weights |
They were awesome then, and the memories are something wonderful. My uncle Irv was there narrating the whole thing the first time. They came by every day. There was a lot of wheat flowing from Montana and ND at that time. Saw the last of the threshing rigs running, a few steamers left, mostly big Rumely's. That is one thumping big tractor to run the big threshing rigs. My grandpa still had some teams left then, the early fifties. He traded a lot of horses in his time. That's where I first handled a team, learned to shoe and very certainly to clinch every nail as soon as driven. To have a Belgian horse take it's foot back when you mid direct a nail and hit a nerve, and have a few unclinched nails sticking your way.....well, it's very bloody. Makes you a fast learner! God bless. On 10/9/2017 8:00 PM, Ed Minch wrote: > GGG > > Mike - you are very lucky to have seen that. Eighth picture down - > Holy Crap > > https://oldmachinepress.com/2016/12/20/union-pacific-4-8-8-4-big-boy- locomotive/">https://oldmachinepress.com/2016/12/20/union-pacific-4-8-8-4-big- boy-locomotive/ > > > serious horsepower. In the 1950’s my dad took us down to the tracks > in Berea, Ohio (a town so small it did not have a square, but rather a > triangle) at 7:15 after dinner to watch the Twentieth Century Limited > go by on its way to Chicago - real fast. > >> On Oct 9, 2017, at 8:38 PM, Mike Rock |
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263478 | <gtgrouch@r...> | 2017‑10‑10 | Re: Cast iron sash weights |
How would you handle shipping to western New York? I have an 1850s house with about 30 windows and there are a few missing weights here and there. Thanks, Gary K ---- Erik Levin via OldTools |
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263480 | Erik Levin | 2017‑10‑10 | Re: Cast iron sash weights |
Gary asked:> How would you handle shipping to western New York? I have an 1850s house with > about 30 windows and there are a few missing weights here and there. I'd bet you can find them locally on CL for less than shipping, but if not, feel free to contact me directly via email. A real quick search shows new can be had for about $2.50/lb, but in modern square section stackable. I didn't see any traditional style round-with-eye type. None listed on CL ithaca or rochester, though there are several listings in my area that have not moved for several months. I'd have to mass them to be sure, but, as I recall,I have 4lb, 6lb, and maybe some heavier. *** This message was sent from a convenience email service, and the reply address(es) may not match the originating address |
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263510 | Michael Suwczinsky <nicknaylo@g...> | 2017‑10‑12 | Re: Cast iron sash weights |
I've heard tale of square or squarish sash weights being made of old wrought iron, while the round, cylindrical type are cast iron. Years of poking thru the pile at my local recycler never yielded anything but the cast weights and I gave up. Looking for wrought iron on the West Coast has proven to be a fools errand outside of Gold Country it seems. I kept a cast iron sash weight on a roller chain as a hold down across my anvil, at least till a more convenient cannon ball-with-a-ring showed up. Michael-with Beijing level air quality in San Francisco. On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 6:52 PM, Erik Levin via OldTools < oldtools@s...> wrote: > Gary asked:> How would you handle shipping to western New York? I have an > 1850s house with > > about 30 windows and there are a few missing weights here and there. I'd > bet you can find them locally on CL for less than shipping, but if not, > feel free to contact me directly via email. A real quick search shows new > can be had for about $2.50/lb, but in modern square section stackable. I > didn't see any traditional style round-with-eye type. None listed on CL > ithaca or rochester, though there are several listings in my area that > have not moved for several months. I'd have to mass them to be sure, but, > as I recall,I have 4lb, 6lb, and maybe some heavier. > > > *** This message was sent from a convenience email service, and the reply > address(es) may not match the originating address > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > OldTools is a mailing list catering to the interests of hand tool > aficionados, both collectors and users, to discuss the history, usage, > value, location, availability, collectibility, and restoration of > traditional handtools, especially woodworking tools. > > To change your subscription options: > https://oldtools.swingleydev.com/mailman/listinfo/oldtools > > To read the FAQ: > https://swingleydev.com/archive/faq.html > > OldTools archive: https://swingleydev.com/ot/ > > OldTools@s... > -- Michael Suwczinsky |
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