Treasure, Lost and Found

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Treasure, Lost and Found

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I was on a hunt this morning for the wall charger to my little Makita 1/4" drill. It was taking awhile, found all kinds of things I had forgotten where it was or if I even knew I had one! I was down to two boxes left and found the charger. :D In the same box...

Two 5-cell Rx battery packs! I figure I got these in the 70's - 80's. They are a bit dirty/dusty but appear to be in great shape.
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Check these out! :mrgreen:

Vintage gold plated Yokomo battery bars. They other 3 are unknown manufacturer, maybe Stage III. I was using Stage III stuff to build Clodbuster battery packs back in the day.
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Cool. Don't think I ever used battery bars before. I always used flat braid. Not sure but, now that I think about it, this may have been the same stuff used for slot car track contact wipers. It's always interesting what you can find when your not looking.
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it's always cool to find stuff you forgot about, even better if it's something you know you have but lost and find much later.

I took an aluminum driveshaft out of a trans am a really long time ago to use in my Z28, 10 +yrs later, I find the darned thing in a storage area looking for something totally different.

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I think I may have found something rather rare... Another, deeply stashed box has yielded some truck bodies, and some other lexan stuff. Once I give them all a bath (30+ years of dust) I'll get some pics.

One of them that has made me grin is a clear Dahm's Slammer XL. No bag or header card, only a small portion of the tail has been cut, just up to the i.d. portion.

Edit: The Slammer has been cut at the trim lines (back in the day) very precise like :mrgreen: Cleaning it up now!
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I loved Ira Dahm's bodies. It's a shame he stopped.

I used to run a Dahm's Rammer back in the day.
I was old school - when old school wasn't cool !

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RC10th wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2018 9:10 am I loved Ira Dahm's bodies. It's a shame he stopped.

I used to run a Dahm's Rammer back in the day.
"Rammer" Would that have been a Dodge Ram truck body?
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NomadRacer wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2018 8:19 am I think I may have found something rather rare... Another, deeply stashed box has yielded some truck bodies, and some other lexan stuff. Once I give them all a bath (30+ years of dust) I'll get some pics.

One of them that has made me grin is a clear Dahm's Slammer XL. No bag or header card, only a small portion of the tail has been cut, just up to the i.d. portion.

Edit: The Slammer has been cut at the trim lines (back in the day) very precise like :mrgreen: Cleaning it up now!
Cool, I have no idea what a "Dahm's Slammer XL" body looks like. I have a Dahms Optima Mid body - the only body I have from them. I also have stashed away in a box somewhere what I think is a very early AE truck body that is unpainted. I should post a pic of it in the "what is it?" thread.
Anyway, I'm anxious to see what you've found.
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I took a few pics, looked like c**p, wil try again once I find a suitable background :?
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