Debris on Heidelberg Rd

hippy wrote:

"Theo Bekkers" wrote in message
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In ten years of riding to work I picked up and brought home:-

I've scored (memory fading here):
- countless screwdrivers
- countless spanners
- a nice wood saw
- quite a few large car magnets (great for the fridge)
- lots of coins
- more than one brand new tube of glue
- heaps of those wheel-balancing lead weights from cars
- a few nice hub caps (~$50 ea. to buy replacement ones!)
- a saw guide thing for cutting mitres
- a zippo lighter

These are just some of the things I can remember off the top of
my head. hip.

Ok, what use are wheel balancing weights? Do you balance your own car
wheels?

GK

I hate this thread now -- my rear tire went *pop* just after I crossed
the Merri Creek on the way back from the footy last evening... Didn't
identify the culprit.

Ah well, that's the first time I've got through two years puncture-free!

--
David J Richardson --
http://davidj.richardson.name/ -- Dr Who articles/interviews/reviews
http://www.boomerang.org.au/ -- Boomerang Association of Australia

I hate this thread now -- my rear tire went *pop* just after I crossed
the Merri Creek on the way back from the footy last evening... Didn't
identify the culprit.

Ah well, that's the first time I've got through two years puncture-free!

--
David J Richardson --
http://davidj.richardson.name/ -- Dr Who articles/interviews/reviews
http://www.boomerang.org.au/ -- Boomerang Association of Australia

they are made of lead...great for making sinkers if you are a fisherman (or
person or whatever it is these days)
saves buying them at inflated prices from tackles shops.

if not I have no idea what people would do with them...maybe cash in at a
recycle place??

"g" wrote in message
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hippy wrote:

"Theo Bekkers" wrote in message
...
In ten years of riding to work I picked up and brought home:-

I've scored (memory fading here):
- countless screwdrivers
- countless spanners
- a nice wood saw
- quite a few large car magnets (great for the fridge)
- lots of coins
- more than one brand new tube of glue
- heaps of those wheel-balancing lead weights from cars
- a few nice hub caps (~$50 ea. to buy replacement ones!)
- a saw guide thing for cutting mitres
- a zippo lighter

These are just some of the things I can remember off the top of
my head. hip.

Ok, what use are wheel balancing weights? Do you balance your own car
wheels?

GK

they are made of lead...great for making sinkers if you are a fisherman (or
person or whatever it is these days)
saves buying them at inflated prices from tackles shops.

if not I have no idea what people would do with them...maybe cash in at a
recycle place??

"g" wrote in message
...
hippy wrote:

"Theo Bekkers" wrote in message
...
In ten years of riding to work I picked up and brought home:-

I've scored (memory fading here):
- countless screwdrivers
- countless spanners
- a nice wood saw
- quite a few large car magnets (great for the fridge)
- lots of coins
- more than one brand new tube of glue
- heaps of those wheel-balancing lead weights from cars
- a few nice hub caps (~$50 ea. to buy replacement ones!)
- a saw guide thing for cutting mitres
- a zippo lighter

These are just some of the things I can remember off the top of
my head. hip.

Ok, what use are wheel balancing weights? Do you balance your own car
wheels?

GK

"Scotty" wrote in message
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they are made of lead...great for making sinkers if you are a
fisherman (or
person or whatever it is these days)
saves buying them at inflated prices from tackles shops.

That's the precise reason I used to nab them. My Dad makes
his own sinkers with the wheel weights (and any other lead
sourse). He melts it down using a portable camp stove and
a little pot, then pours it into a sinker mould - which you can
buy from outdoor/fishing stores.

hippy
- not a crazy person who collects wheel weights... really! ;-)

"Scotty" wrote in message
...
they are made of lead...great for making sinkers if you are a
fisherman (or
person or whatever it is these days)
saves buying them at inflated prices from tackles shops.

That's the precise reason I used to nab them. My Dad makes
his own sinkers with the wheel weights (and any other lead
sourse). He melts it down using a portable camp stove and
a little pot, then pours it into a sinker mould - which you can
buy from outdoor/fishing stores.

hippy
- not a crazy person who collects wheel weights... really! ;-)

"g" wrote in message
...
hippy wrote:

"Theo Bekkers" wrote in message
...
In ten years of riding to work I picked up and brought home:-

I've scored (memory fading here):
- countless screwdrivers
- countless spanners
- a nice wood saw
- quite a few large car magnets (great for the fridge)
- lots of coins
- more than one brand new tube of glue
- heaps of those wheel-balancing lead weights from cars
- a few nice hub caps (~$50 ea. to buy replacement ones!)
- a saw guide thing for cutting mitres
- a zippo lighter

These are just some of the things I can remember off the top of
my head. hip.

Ok, what use are wheel balancing weights? Do you balance your own car
wheels?

GK

Maybe you can give them to a fisherman who can heat & reshape them into
sinkers......

DJ

"g" wrote in message
...
hippy wrote:

"Theo Bekkers" wrote in message
...
In ten years of riding to work I picked up and brought home:-

I've scored (memory fading here):
- countless screwdrivers
- countless spanners
- a nice wood saw
- quite a few large car magnets (great for the fridge)
- lots of coins
- more than one brand new tube of glue
- heaps of those wheel-balancing lead weights from cars
- a few nice hub caps (~$50 ea. to buy replacement ones!)
- a saw guide thing for cutting mitres
- a zippo lighter

These are just some of the things I can remember off the top of
my head. hip.

Ok, what use are wheel balancing weights? Do you balance your own car
wheels?

GK

Maybe you can give them to a fisherman who can heat & reshape them into
sinkers......

DJ

: Ah well, that's the first time I've got through two years puncture-free!
:

Now here it comes. I went through about 18months of daily commuting of
42k's a day without a puncture. Then wham. Got a spate of them. I bought
Mr Tuffies. So far so good.