Every so often, I seriously consider that I need to make dramatic cuts in my stash of bits'n'pieces. And then I realise this would be a bad thing.
I'm working on an urgent and very time-consuming magazine project at the moment. For the wiring up, I needed some DIN sockets and so included them in an order for materials. When the arrived, I'd selected the wrong pin pitch. My controller wouldn't plug in, and I was loathe to change the plug on this as it wouldn't then work with other layouts.
I have a shoebox full of electrical "stuff" and rooting around in there I found this panel thing. I don't know where it came from or what it was built to do - but it incorporated two of the vital sockets. A few minutes work removing them and I was in business.
If I'd not had that box of junk I'd have been stuffed. My rush project would have ground to a halt. So, a win for hoarding.
Does anyone else car to admit being dug out of a hole by a similar stash, or it just me that keeps stuff?
Ditto. Throw nothing away. the day you do, you rue it.
ReplyDeleteAs my father used to say "everything comes in useful once in 7 years" as long as you can remembered where you might have stashed it in the first place !!
ReplyDeleteAgreed ! The hard bit is having a good enough memory or storage system so you can find it when you need it - several times I have bought new items I actually had in stock already...
ReplyDeleteHmmm ... DIN 5A's ... Your controller wouldn't, by any chance, be a Gaugemaster?
ReplyDeleteAs for being "saved by the stash", I suspect this must have happened to just about everyone.
The reason I say "just about" is that this might not have happened to the minority who always keep everything neat / tidied away.
I suspect that a number of these people just need to keep on buying stuff they had until yesterday.
Been there. Done that.
ReplyDeleteI'm still raiding my layout control panel from 10 years ago for parts.
Ahhh yes, the old problem of actually finding the stuff that you've stashed when you actually need it!
ReplyDeleteI’m often going out and buying stuff to do a specific job, then bringing it home and putting it somewhere safe. Then when I come to do the job some time late (3 or 4 months perhaps) can I find it? Of course not.
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