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This is a great thread that was started at Woodnet.net or rec.woodworking and posted on Toolcrib.com and also Lumberjocks.com. It's about the best "recycled" items for your workshop. I've listed what I thought to be the Top 10 but please feel free to add your ideas to the comments section below or just go check out the other sites and see what great ideas they've shared with cyberspace.
1. I love to buy RECYCLED and RECONDITIONED POWER TOOLS. If your near Santa Cruz, California you can visit Drew's Used Tools. If not, of course you can always get them online at Toolking.com.
2. JARS: My grandfather was a furniture refinisher and used old jars to store the stains and finishes that he would mix up. Also, baby food sized jars are great for storing miscellaneous screws and such cause you can see them in the jar. Screw the lid to the underside of an eye Level shelf and you can see what you need, unscrew the jar from the shelf, take what you want and screw it back up on the shelf. It's a great use of unused space.
3. UTILITY KNIFE BLADES can be resharpened and reused. My dad proved it to me last week. Just use a file or kitchen knife sharpener.
4. MOUSE PADS - Dampens Vibrations under tools (glued to my scroll saw and grinder). Also is a decent sanding and routing pad. -from USCJeff at Lumberjocks.com
5. 24oz CANS for holding paint when you're painting edges and trim or anything with a brush.
6. OLD SHEETS and other COTTON CLOTHING to cut up and use for rags instead of buying them.
7. GROCERY BAGS to put a used paint roller in for later use with the same color. The grocery bags keep the paint roller from drying out, not indefinitely but for the duration of your paint job.
8. PLAYING CARDS or old board game cards are good to use as shims or for spreading epoxy.
9. EMORY BOARDS for fine tuning hand cut dovetails.
10. I keep the OLD BIC PENS from the office. I thow out the inky thingy and keep the cartridge and cap. I duct tape it to the spray cans which take straws and keep the staws in the now empy cartridge.
GREAT prices on reconditioned power tools at Toolking.com
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Unfortunately, they don't have covers but that doesn't detract from their usefulness.
Jim