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MG Midget and Sprite General - House moving and poor memory

I can't believe just how much stuff I've accumulated over the years. There is stuff coming out of the sheds that I can't recall ever having seen before.

14 cylinderheads. 4 Frog doors. 2 bin bags full of old wiring looms. Why??? Surely I'll never need them? I had somehow managed to fill 3 large garden sheds with stuff over the past 20 years and now a large percentage is going in the bin.

Anyway, I did find some choice bits that I'd forgotten about so I guess I ought to move house more often.

Am I alone in suffering from this madness?????
r thomas

No, I'm afraid not! :o(
Dave O'Neill2

no

do not ever go searching for anything in my garage

unless you feel the need to be diverted by items made to adapt BMW geartrains to suit Spridgets

Carburettor parts that could get several Fords, Vauxhalls and quite possibly NSU motors back in service

How about side jacks and scissor jacks for variously diverse cars too

All THIS without actually thinking about it

I really should order a skip or have a garage sale, EVERYTHING OUGHT TO GO, then I can think about moving to the country :)

But

Not very likely to happen

And I converted one screw jack into an engine balancing steady for when I take out Lara's engine again

I am doomed to keep my garage buried under "possibilities"

So no it's not just you
Bill1

Confession time
My garage no longer has a floor. Well, not that I have seen for many months. Getting anything from the garage involves mountaineering expertise and swinging from the beams to cross the uncharted ranges of "useful stuff".

I save used gaskets. Even head gaskets. Tidying up every few years may result in shuffling them into a sequence of least damaged to completely disintegrated before they go back on top of the rostyle wheel spray masks last used in 1989. Would I ever re-use an old head gasket? - of course not!
Guy

I suffer a lot from "I'm sure I put that here, where the hell has it gone". But I do only have one car, it's just that it is in every single component form in many unlabled pots and piles. I just about know what all the bits are... I think...

Malcolm
Malcolm Le Chevalier

Rob can I have the phone numer of your binman please? Are you having a clearance sale?
David Smith

I've found the missing Shorrocks pulley. Yippee!
The chassis plates etc for my beloved Mk2 Sprite that got nicked have finally turned up, in a box.



Anyone need some front wings? Doh!
r thomas

Second what David says... Perhaps we should orgnaise a mass bring and buy sale.

C L Carter

I've got a blown head gasket, a couple of blown fuses and some split wipers I could bring along, I knew they would come in for something....
P Ottewell

Times 3. Where are you Rob? Anywhere near Kent?
Lawrence Slater

The real killer is when you eventually convince yourself that the useful item that you haven't found a use for during the last 20 years can be thrown out. 2 weeks later you spend half a day looking for it as you have just the thing I need..., its somewhere here, I know it is, I saw it only last week.

Actually its quite fun. I keep finding an Austin 7 wheelbrace that belongs with a car I had in my late teens. And that's long time ago -if you are in your early 40's that was before you were born. More fun still is the "remember this part" game. Banjo nut of my A35 Zenith carb (c.1968)Finned exhaust clamp, Panther 600,(c.1966). Bent bit of metal A7 choke knob clamp (ancestor to the Midget clothes peg)
Guy

Don't you live in aberdeen rob? Or have I confused you with someone else?!

Malcolm
Malcolm Le Chevalier

It must be a Sprdiget thing. My garage was just a place to park the F once. In the 6 months I've had the Midget, it has become progressively more full of bits of car!

Weirdly, not just Midget bits. I've got a spare set of wheels, and a little pile of broken parts in the MGF corner now.

I need a bigger garage...I keep ripping my clothes clambering over stuff to get to the back. There's a bit of twisted metal hanging off the Midget, which has accounted for three pairs of jeans, one pair of work trousers and two pairs of tights recently.
Ally

"There's a bit of twisted metal hanging off the Midget,--"

Cut it off? Bend it out of the way? :)
Lawrence Slater

I keep thinking that too Lawrence! Normally just after I've shredded another item of clothing! The offending wings are coming off, just as soon as I figure out wher to put them!
Ally

<<"three pairs of jeans, one pair of work trousers and two pairs of tights recently.">>

You wear a lot of clothes Ally. Must be the cold weather.
Guy

I'm far too tight to turn the heating on, so you wear layers or freeze at my place Guy!

The Midget is wearing a blanket though...better looked after than my son!
Ally

Well your not alone there Ally.

I've decided that Gas and Electric are no substitute for Skiing. So the heating is off, to pay for the skiing, and I walk around in the house as if I am dressed for the Arctic. lol.
Lawrence Slater

I'm about 10 miles west of Cardiff but am moving house to...well...about 9.99 miles west of Cardiff.
New house has a slightly bigger workshop (by about 400%) plus a load more sheds and another double garage on the side of the house. The problem is that I have to move everything the 500 yards from the old place to the new one and I've still got back problems.
I'm starting to wish we'd never started this whole house move thing! I had to buy a car transporter trailer to shift the various chassis and shells but I ought to be able to sell it on afterwards. Anyone want a twin-axle trailer???

r thomas

Have you knicked my car Rob?
Robert (Bob) Midget Turbo

Nice shed Rob!
Where's the hanger for the plane?
Matt1275Bucks

I'm a little guilty of the hoarding too.... It's even starting here in Aus...!

Oooops :-)

Mark.
M T Boldry

Hey Rob,

I see you still have the Lenham :)

How about sending me a few new pics for the Register web-site?

John Shep.
John Shep

Glad to hear I'm not the only one. With many boxes of new, and used parts for MGB & Midget stored away (very logically at the time) I rarely can find anything. So bad now that I find myself (frustratingly) buying new because it's easier than trying to find, or remembering where I've stored things.

Regards,

Larry C.
Larry C '69 Midget

I think its an MG related disease, as soon as you get one, more turn up!

I'd just like to be able to get into my garage!

John

John Collins

This thread has spurred me on to get to grips with my old falling down shed. We've just spent the last 5 hours brings boxes and boxes of stuff out.... some of it really useful and some of it "what the hell did I save that for".

My eldest is having a field day asking what stuff is for (and I'm not having to make up things to tell him either - much!).

The back of the house looks like an explosion is an autojumble though, we better get it all sorted and tidied up before my missus comes back!
Andrew McGee

I like the F collection John! A man of taste! Mine is in for major surgery tomorrow - evil thing is intent on depleting my Midget fund!
Ally

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