Decades ago, I moved from Massachusetts to Florida. When I moved from that house to a new one, I discovered an unopened bathroom fan motor + blower wheel in the attic (left by a previous owner). “Nice” (head nod) I said to myself, and threw it in with everything else in the moving boxes.
Of course, my wife told me to “just leave it” and “you’re such a hoarder!” It stayed in that box when we moved again a decade later.
Today, one of our bathroom exhaust fans stopped working (for the 2nd time) so I decided to reach deep into my hoard of random crap. “I have just the thing!” I still remembered which box it was in and where I stored it in the attic above the garage!
BONUS: The old bracket nuts didn’t fit the new motor so I had to fish around in my collection of random nuts, bolts, and screws to find two exact matches. Which I had, of course—because I save all the screws of all the things 👍
I saved ~$37 and a trip to the hardware store today!
do you still have the handycam? that took super8 right?
Yes I do! Not Super 8… Wow. I’m not that old! Super 8 is from the 1960s and 1970s. The Sony Handycam I have used a format called “Hi8”.
damn we must have been using old equipment. we shot everything on super 8 off whatever cameras we could get our hands on in the 90s. except my buddy who did stop motion who had a 35mm