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yellowperil 11-10-2015 10:29 AM

And this thing, which is the last of the weird stuff at my house. Well.... except for the shrunken pygmy head, which I can't seem to find anymore. Just as well, as my wife would rather I didn't show it to guests at our house anymore. She thinks it might make us look a bit weird. Oh, and maybe back off on the scotch a bit too.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447183691.jpg

sammyg2 11-10-2015 10:32 AM

I've thought about this for a while and came to the conclusion that I do not own anything unusual.


Is that unusual?

vash 11-10-2015 10:50 AM

what is the most unusual thing you own?
 
I'm boring

But I do have a bunch of ancient ceramic marbles dug up from the streets of San Francisco. 1906 earthquake stuff.

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/11...ac0fc10860.jpg


Sent via Jedi mind trick.

scottmandue 11-10-2015 11:23 AM

A large Coors malt can (presume that is what Coors went to doing during prohibition).
A everyready battery dated 1947.
My dad's slide rule... also have some of his drafting tools... and I just found in his garage (he past away a little over a year ago) one of those rulers that fold up in 10 inch sections.
Brochures from the Mathmatica exhibit (It's a museum thing).
A few old Dayton signs that I got out of (one of) my dad's rental units (old gas station) from when my dad was remodeling and was going to throw them out (I would have grabbed the antique gas pumps but didn't have anywhere to store them).

cashflyer 11-10-2015 11:38 AM

Oh... In the refrigerator, I have a bottle of Coors Winterfest 1987.

BeyGon 11-10-2015 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by cashflyer (Post 8872029)
Oh... In the refrigerator, I have a bottle of Coors Winterfest 1987.

That's a little past it's drink by date.

cashflyer 11-10-2015 03:11 PM

I'm waiting for it to reach 30, then gifting it to some sucker in the PPOT gift exchange.

Charles Freeborn 11-10-2015 03:39 PM

I have a couple klystron tubes, one resin filled and cut in half. A Hammond Glider sliding table printers saw, which I use constantly in my work ( not for printing ) and I've also got my grandfathers photo albums from the early teens in France. He served with the American / French Ambulance Corps, so there are many shots of WW1.

WPOZZZ 11-10-2015 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by notfarnow (Post 8870101)
It's hard to beat my dad in this department

1930's Dentist chair, fully operational including the cable driven drill:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447082640.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447082750.jpg

When I was a kid in the early 70s, my dentist had the same damned eqpt. Watching the cable was cool, but his drilling was not.

1990C4S 11-11-2015 05:11 AM

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Originally Posted by notfarnow (Post 8870101)
It's hard to beat my dad in this department

1930's Dentist chair, fully operational including the cable driven drill:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447082640.jpg

I can beat that. I have the chair, the drill and.....

the X-ray machine. :eek:.

craigster59 11-11-2015 08:37 AM

Jake, if you need an extra belt for the drill I have about 20 of them. SmileWavy

Here's one of mine, a Roman amphora from 4th-2nd century B.C. Used to transport olives, oil, fish, etc across the Mediterranean. My uncle was a pilot in the Air Force in the early 60's stationed in Spain. He recovered it from a shipwreck off of Mallorca.

The keel of the ship had holes that ran along it so the pointed base could be placed in there and used as ballast.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447263461.jpg

Rusty Heap 11-11-2015 12:34 PM

I'll let my toy speak for itself..........best Garage Sale find EVER, THANKS MOM!!! (she said with a straight face, "you're really not going to shoot the black powder cannon are you?" well duh Mom!)


https://vimeo.com/53445174

Seahawk 11-11-2015 12:41 PM

I have a piece of a missile I shot from a helicopter that hit the target it was intended to hit.

I'll find some pics.

porsche4life 11-11-2015 01:11 PM

I have an ex USAF dental air compressor in my garage, its a pretty strange unit...

I've probably got some weird stuff around if I think about it...

craigster59 11-11-2015 01:15 PM

I just found this in my desk drawer. Fake leaves and buds from the growhouse and drying room we did on the show "Weeds". It was close to $100k in custom silk plants and buds.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447280052.jpg


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447280081.jpg


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447280109.jpg

Embraer 11-11-2015 01:32 PM

Top Gun Nitrous bottle that was in Lyn St. James' record setting Thunderbird.

Set of First Class seats from a Midwest Airlines 717

masraum 11-11-2015 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Tidybuoy (Post 8869793)

Very cool. Looks like most of them are Chinese. I've got one Chinese abacus, but several Japanese soroban. I don't have nearly the quantity or range that you have though.

Charles Freeborn 11-11-2015 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by craigster59 (Post 8873641)
I just found this in my desk drawer. Fake leaves and buds from the growhouse and drying room we did on the show "Weeds". It was close to $100k in custom silk plants and buds.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447280052.jpg


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447280081.jpg


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1447280109.jpg

I was wondering how they did that. If you were filming up in Oregon these days you could use the real thing....

WPOZZZ 11-11-2015 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Tidybuoy (Post 8869793)

Nice koto, shamisen and ruan. Are those guqin next to the shamisen? You just need an erhu to add to your collection.

Rufblackbird 11-11-2015 08:59 PM

compared to you guys nothing I have is unusual!

well maybe my '61 Studebaker school bus, but you guys really have some weird *****! :D


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