Parts for cars you no longer own, dead bugs, tools that went walk-about.
Parts for cars you no longer own, dead bugs, tools that went walk-about.
Lots of partially filled bottles of brake fluid.
Spiders.
Electric grass trimmer you haven't seen/used in 7 years. Wife and I were both " I thought we craigslisted that thing".
Parts I ordered never got around to installing then forgot I had.
Sharp objects in low contrast shadows. Rope. No idea why. Halves of tiedowns. I was really hoping to find an old set of hubs and uprights that someone wanted, but they seem to have taken a bigger walk that I woulda given them credit for. Spark plugs, and a goldern mouse nest in a corner, once. Prolly oughtta clean that thing out more often..
3/4 full containers of wax that's nearly a plaster constitancy at this point.
Possum skull.
Half drunk bottles of dusty beer with a nice think layer of mold on the top
Cleaning my shop that was formerly my grandfathers...
Vials of Mercury, container of DDT 
...my work bench.
This weekend I cleaned off one of those 'erector set' metal shelves from the basement with some random stuff on it, and screwed it to the wall in the garage. I then proceeded to put everything on my workbench on the shelves. Who know there was a work bench underneath all that stuff!
Apexcarver wrote: Cleaning my shop that was formerly my grandfathers... Vials of Mercury, container of DDT
Let me know if you find any aldrin.
A while back an uncle of mine was selling out and moving to Cinci with his second wife. He had an old can of Hot Shot that had some pretty nasty ingredients.
David S. Wallens wrote: Parts for cars you no longer own, dead bugs, tools that went walk-about.
shhh.. that's where we have been hiding all the 10mm sockets
I had spare parts for three challenge cars I no longer owned last time I did a massive cleanup project. Mostly stuff I had no use for without the car, but couldn't get to to throw out, because of how crowded the garage was.
Its getting bad again. I need to sell/scrap some stuff.
Brown recluse moltings, dead skink, a car..
evildky wrote: ...dead skink,
On more than one occasion, I've found dehydrated salamander.
O2 Sensor and sway bar links for a vehicle I sold 3 years ago
Having used the same shop for 40 years, it is like an archaeological dig.
The excess parts from the earliest cars I worked on are closest to the ground and to the outside of the garage. Each subsequent project added a layer on top of that - it now accommodates a single car whereas it used to take two small ones.
The frustrating thing is when you buy a new part and then find out later when looking for something else, that you already had a perfectly good part deeper into the pile that you had forgotten about.
When doing a turbo swap on my RX7, I found a few snake skins (usually when 2 inches away from them under the car.
Not cool.
I think I poo'd a little.
Rob R.
I found a 3" muffler that I don't remember even buying. But it has a $20 Summit scratch-n-dent pricetag, so it sure looks like something I would have bought.
Apexcarver wrote: Cleaning my shop that was formerly my grandfathers... Vials of Mercury, container of DDT
At least it wasn't a bottle of picric acid. Someone I know found an old bottle of that while cleaning up a chemistry lab once, they had to evacuate the building and call the bomb squad.
The answer is 10mm sockets. All of them.
Four weld-on steering u-joints - how the hell did I end of with 4 of these, mgb slam panel, ford bronco tie rods, lincoln lsc air pump, e36 fuel pump, jeep TJ bumper ends (I don't own any of those now). 2 snapple bottles taped together with corks and tubes running out of them - homemade carb syncing tool.
empty beers, lots of them
I found a brand new set of brake rotors for.....something. The box had disintegrated so I couldn't get a part number but the weren't for anything I currently own. The most widely accepted theory is that they were for my wife's o!d Audi TT. I might have bought parts to do all four corners but only ended up doing two. If that was the case you'd think I would have found some new pads too, but I didn't.
I also found the mummified remains of at least four dead squirrels, many mice, and millions of lizards. The dead animals I understand, but the rotors are confusing.
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