Dollar General find! Piping? Tree trunks?

I love using 'found objects' like this, especially if inexpensive.

Hi Malcolm, this is a very cool find. I can see using this stuff from bridge suspension cable to down pipes on buildings and elevated  roadways.

I don't know what "DG" stands for but I will look for it when I'm in a gardon center.

 

Thank You!

"DG" = "Dollar General" .

DG= Dollar General which is a discount store chain. We have them here in Florida. Some good deals to be found at times.

Thank You fellows, We don't have DG's up here but I may be able to find the soft wire ties if I look on the local market. Who knows I may wont to bundel something together.

I bought three LED flickering tea lights at the Dollar Store locally.  I use the flickering LED's to replace the lamp for a flickering firebox glow in locomotives, and the switch on the bottom is the exact size of the Lionel switches for various functions on most of their locomotives.  Finally, you get a CR2032 battery, something that is used in many items, and costs a lot more than 33 cents if you just buy it by itself!

 

Each of these items by themselves would cost far more than the entire tea light.

I love this sort of thing. Is there perhaps a thread where we can all post and compare our best "scrounging?" If not, we should start one.  Finding a way to make something cheap and awesome has far mkre appeal to me than the latest $1500 locomotive.

Wowak, 

Hang around the OGR scenery forum once in a while. You'll see lots of ingenious ways to recycle common items into detail parts.

 

Malcolm - good find - thanks for posting.

 

Jim