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Not worth anything but funny.
I wasbon a pm at a home lady was home and she wanted to know if ah was dirty so she stands by me. I open it up shine my flashlight and on to of coil 2 unopened condoms. So she says did u find any growth I said no but I found these, here. She says their not mine its just me and my partner and she female too.
so her female partner comes in and she stsrted to question her about the condims lmao

all I ever find is:

one sawed off shotgun in a rental property with no one around, it was beat to crap and kinda rusted so I turned over to a buddy on the police force

Multiple pot pipes

going through a closet to run a supply run to the second floor I found a bright blue 10" vibrator with the nice owner standing right there, I said "what the Heck is this" (like I didn't already know) as she was turning a deep dark red, she grabbed it and said, uuum I'll take that, and she left.

Multiple tools, screwdrivers, hacksaws.....

Had a blocked heat run to a second floor, went in the basement and pulled the bottom horn boot off the stack and got dumped on by just over a 5 gal bucket of toys. went back upstairs and used 3" deck screws to put the register on. The mother was like "hey,my kids said those got thrown out" I told her she could keep the bucket.

Found three wads of $100 bills on a box full of "vintage" Penthouse and Playboy mags on a guys work bench, I went up stairs to inform the owner of what I found, he said " HEY!!! don't touch my F***ing magazines" I started laughing and said, no problem. (the guy is filthy rich)

I never find anything interesting though

Originally Posted by ICanHas

Some of those glass ball things are filled with carbon tetrachloride. It's deadly toxic especially to those who's got alcohol in their system. There's been a story about someone dying from just catching a whiff of fume from someone who was using it nearby. The person who caught a whiff of it had a drink. The person using it didn't.

The grenade I have does have the CCl4. According to the EPA it's deadly to those who already have severely compromised organs, such as from drinking, as you have noted.

Have found 20 ton semi hermetic compressor, still sitting on their pallet beside a RTU where the customer had paid for it to have been installed a couple of years earlier.

Originally Posted by HVAC_Marc

the ancient customer had about 50 of them in his cellar rafters. he allowed me one. what you cant see in the picture is the shur-stop tag is soldered onto tabs that the clip goes into. i assume it's a very low temp solder, so when the flames melted it, the ball would fall and shatter.

Some of those glass ball things are filled with carbon tetrachloride. It's deadly toxic especially to those who's got alcohol in their system. There's been a story about someone dying from just catching a whiff of fume from someone who was using it nearby. The person who caught a whiff of it had a drink. The person using it didn't.

Helping a relative in her basement when I look over and find a nearly full can of “Black Asbestos Furnace Caulk" sitting on a wall near me. Best part to me was the ‘Caution: Irritant' label. (Picture is lost for the moment)

8 years or so ago (when I was still in high school), my parents asked me to check out what was causing a stain on a closet ceiling, that seemed to get wet whenever the A/C was running. Went up into the attic and found that the A/C condensate drain was 3/4" just hanging above a 1 1/2" trap, splashing water everywhere. The interesting find was that in addition to the stain on the ceiling, it was also splashing all over the cable and phone lines, including a coax amplifier module. After fixing the condensate drain, I respliced the phone line (that fixed the DSL issues) and found that because of the DC bias powering the amplifier, the cable lines were hopelessly corroded. (Fortunately, I wasn't using them.) Decided to pull the amplifier to see if it was salvageable, then realized that all I had to do was clean it because it was weather resistant! I used that amplifier module to improve TV reception and I'm actually still using it to this day.

just last week i found a slide-Driver and a Smith & Wesson tanto switch Blade! H/o said he didnt want them so in the bag they went!

the ancient customer had about 50 of them in his cellar rafters. he allowed me one. what you cant see in the picture is the shur-stop tag is soldered onto tabs that the clip goes into. i assume it's a very low temp solder, so when the flames melted it, the ball would fall and shatter.

Very cool!!!

That top metal thingie is a fire grenade holder.Its in great shape too.

Thanks for posting pictures.

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Turning tin to gold

Attachment 448641Heres how to help finance your remodeling job. These Krueger beer cans were placed in the joists 70 years ago and were worth hundreds each. Who says drinking on the job doesn't pay? Happy holidays everyone!

Nothing as cool as the others so far, found some drugs on the roof of a theater, a leatherman tool in a drop ceiling, several snake skins in basements.

I'v only done commercial so nothing cool.
But i did find a 4' aluminum pipe wrench on a roof.
Some porn mags in a machine room.

Does a 1988 Trane RTU count, the boss wrote an all inclusive contract on it from his desk, LOL

Originally Posted by oldbeer

Wacky Packages! Now those I would buy and display proudly.I still have all that I bought as a kid in the 70's.Too cool...

I know...I used to luv those when I was a kid. We would laugh and trade them on the playground when I was a wee lad.

Wacky Packages! Now those I would buy and display proudly.I still have all that I bought as a kid in the 70's.Too cool...

Lets see:

Found old tin litho train cars in an attic under the insulation.

Found a 10k 1939 class ring in a return.

Found an old barfold in a return drop.

Found 300 bucks in 1960's bills on top of ductwork.

Found a harmonica and army men in the HE furnace intake pipe.

Dirty magazines stuffed in a bedroom supply.

A 2 foot long purple rubber dildo that fell down after I removed a drop ceiling tile in a basement....I left is where it fell btw.

A Tiffany ear ring that the HO lost 30 years previously.

A 1930's Buddy L dump truck that the owner let me keep. Sold it later for 500 bucks.

Wacky Packages.....2 packs unopened...still got them....with gum inside!

A flat head screwdriver with a wooden handle that I still have.

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Any new or strange finds to resurrect this thread? I'm sure you've found SOMETHING recently!