Items shown represent a small selection of current inventory.
"Turbo Santana" Fan
SOLD!
It must be extremely turbo, because even when I put my ear right up to it I still don’t hear a single guitar.
Air Cooler
SOLD!
It’s the Convair Millenia air cooler! That’s probably like the Dodge Stratus of air coolers!
Assorted Vacuum Parts
Some of these parts suck.
Bi-Polar Power Supply
Power for the North Pole, power for the South Pole, power for everybody!
Boxes of "Cat 3" Cables
No clue what these are for (they’re new-in-box), but they’re by Uniprise, if that floats your boat. It should be noted, however, that these cables will most likely not actually literally float your boat.
Buffers Galore
Round sweepy-polishy machines look somewhat menacing when all lined up regimental style, don’t they?
Carrier HVAC System
This large HVAC system by Carrier is wired for 460-3-60VAC. Is that good? Bad? Impressive? I want to learn how to be impressive with my HVAC wiring lingo. This thing is pretty large, so I’m already impressed.
Cool Thing
It’s an apparatus. Somebody walked by and called it a lace press. So okay, although it doesn’t look like it would be very delicate with your frillies. Also: it’s sideways.
H20 Tank w/ Snazzy Top Guage
SOLD!
Place it upright and paint a face on it, and you’ve got a friend who won’t ever disagree with you or make you feel like you were wrong to think The Avengers was a much better Brit TV show than a Joss Whedon movie.
It's BROOMS!
Fresh from the Broadway failure “SWEEPIES!” comes this abundance of props from the big number.
It's DOORKNOBS!
A whole mess of ‘em, too.
It's LOCKS!
Yup.
Old Parcel Rate Scale
It’s probably from Ike Godsey’s general store!
Whoa, Two 70s TeeVee references in one week!
Old School PA System
It has almost as many switches & knobs as a Mini Cooper and can probably predict the future.
Padded Cart
Need a good cart but you’re more of a full-body-contact kind of cart-slam operator? This may be just the cart for you then because it’s got heavily padded front legs JUST IN CASE.
Pulley Rigs
From the What The Heck Were These For files comes PULLEY RIGS! Perhaps for measuring liquid volumes? Perhaps for holding Folgers crystals? Perhapsperhapsperhaps . . .
Purolator Air Filters
Well fine, if you’re going to be elitist about your air, you might as well have the right filter: the Purolator Air Filtration Mark 80 should be just the thing, your highness. We know these are pretty spendy in retail stores, so we’ve lost our minds again and are charging just .50 each for them!
RapidPrint Machine
SOLD!
The award for Coolest Looking Gadget this week goes to this funky RapidPrint machine. What does it do? My money’s on: “prints things rapidly.” Actually: it’s a time-stamp machine. Sweet! “So, everytime I wonder what time it is I just put a piece of paper into this machine and presto, it tells me! I wish I could put something like that around my wrist!”
Singer Sewing Machine & Table: The Treadle!
Here’s a beautiful old Singer sewing machine with foot pump and table (and an included lamp!) that has seen some decades go by, indeed. We have tentatively dated the machine itself to the early 1900s, although we feel fairly certain the table-top is a later addition. A really lovely piece of machinery.
UPDATE! We’ve received some helpful additional information from a reader in the Division of Emergency Medicine at HMC: “The sewing machine with the foot pump is called a ‘treadle’ sewing machine. They are really handy if you live someplace with frequent power outages and you have a job that you can call in “sick” and stay home and sew by candlelight.”
Well, It Says It's A Hair Dryer
SOLD!
It looks like a small jet engine, sits on its own stand, and somewhat terrifying declares that it is a hair dryer by Oster. So I asked our historical-beauty-parlor expert, Linda in Moving Services, how this could possibly have been used to dry hair without setting your skull aflame. Turns out this gadget was hooked up to a tube that was connected to either a bag or a space-unit head covering that then dried your finger-curls while you read your National Enquirer about Elvis getting fat and gross. As a bonus, it’s as loud as a helicopter!