What did you buy at the junkyard today

Today i took a load of scrap steel to the scrap yard and when i was there i bought those thing. An YUGO torque mount as a spare i used them on the little niva recently and stainless pipe, that has some very thin cuts every 10 centimeters and a aluminium fuel can, i was concerned to use my made in USA fuel cans in the little niva it may resist them, this one is russian so it should be fine haha.
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You wouldn't want World War 3 to start when you're out somewhere in the wilderness! :)
 
Today i stopped by the local scrap yard to scrap some old car parts and found this, the steering box and linkage for a Lada, it is from a sedan but fits my little niva. It was very cheap and in good condition so i bought it as a spare.
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Today i had some spare time so i decided to take out some of the scrap metal that has accumulated in my garages, also i took out 3 brackets of steel shavings from my lathe. i took them to a local scrap yard and instead of getting 2-3$ for the whole load, i traded it for this mercedes gearbox and couple of aloy car rims. I'm not sure what will i use the rims for but the gearbox is prime for a good size test bench. Its very short all cast iron very strong and has decent gear ratios. I can tell it was remove with care from the blow torch cut shifter rods and all the rust :grin big: .
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I haven't been in scrap yards last couple of months, but yesterday i stopped by one, i did not had too much time but a quick walk thru i grabbed some car tings manly relays, sensors, pulleys, hydrolic cilinder, piston all in 5$.
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That's a pretty good haul for a fiver. How's the little Niva doing? I've been curious.
 
Today i stopped by my local scrap yard just to see if there is something interesting. Found this rusty gearbox shaft, just for reference to in the back are 16" rims from the little niva, so is not a small piece of steel, i paid 5$ for it when putting it on the scale i noticed a Lada engine, the guy there said is from a riva, but i noticed the oil pan is definitely from a Niva, it has space for the front diff, so we weight it also and then he said do you want the head too, on the other side there was the cylinder head, missing its camshaft and couple other things, so i bought it too, finding a good 1600 engine block and head for scrap price was a good found, to be sure i clean off the engine numbers and i was right, there on the top 2121 that is an engine from a niva. I don't plan to install this engine in my Niva but i plan to use it for mockup when i'm making the conversion plate and adapters to fit a diesel engine in my little niva.
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I had lots of car seats left over from many of my parts cars taking space, so i call the junkmen to pick them up, surprisingly he came right away took most of them did not want to take the ones without any steel in them. And offered me 4$, basically just to take them away, i've seen this air compressor pump in his for sale rack i ask him how about a swap, so i got this pump and some more free space, not bad.
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