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