Monday, October 25, 2010

Steampunk X-Ray Machine

I was bidding on a few items in a local online auction and this x-ray machine kept calling me. No one has bid on this behemoth and I was starting to get interested. It looked incredibly heavy, but it was sooooo cheap. I decided that I would look at it just before it closed.

I was sure that the bracket that held the chest level screen would make a wonderful industrial chic mounting arm for a monitor or HDTV. And the box with dials and buttons on the right side would yield a bunch of good parts for a Mad Scientist lamp or other Steampunk project.

I knew that it was a heavy pig and that the auctioneer wasn't going to let me leave the parts that I didn't want, but I was intrigued. Luckily someone else bid with about 5 minutes left in the auction. I saved myself.

The guy was loading the machine into his truck when I got there to pick up my items. That is the guy, plus 3 other huffing and puffing men were loading the machine. It was bigger and heavier than I had imagined. I thanked the guy for bidding before I got swept up into bidding.

Mr. Flannery

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Luckily someone else bid with about 5 minutes left in the auction. I saved myself.

YOU MEAN HE SAVED YOU "FROM YOURSELF"

You had fun ideas for it tho!

Charlene said...

Did you find out how much they paid for it?

My husband and I loved auctions. We bought amazing things; office furniture, chairs, typewriters, a house, a commercial building. We went to an auction the day he died. Luckily he and a co-worker went and got the stuff right after the auction.

Kathy said...

Oh my! That does have some wonderful possibilities, doesn't it? You certainly don't seem to be afraid of heavy... I wonder what the Guy who got it, plans to do with it.

ann at greenoak said...

that WAS a close call.... pretty tempting tho...

red.neck chic said...

Oh....

Part of me thinks you were saved... part of me is hanging my head...

That would have been SO cool with a coffee maker in it. :-D

Okay - we gotta find you another one... perhaps lighter. Last night I opened the restoration hardware catalog...

now I'm hanging my head again.
;-D robelyn

Mr. Flannery said...

Kathy - the guy didn't have any specific plans, he bid because it was interesting and at $5 it was sooooo cheap. (Does that sound familiar). It was too heavy, even for me.