I made two.saws, a miter saw and team saw from the teeth of a tinfoil box.
(Just like real tools, I can't find them because I want them... here is the scraps left behind ) Wire insulation handles, handles etc. cut with tiny side cutter/nips.
If you.tear apart a cheap butane lighter, the thin safety wheels make a small circular saw blade. Old tape players.sometimes have a plastic arm/cover combo over the rubber tape drive wheel. They look a lot like circular saws,.some look like handheld belt sanders.
A Crackerjack.box and fireplaçe matches became a billboard.
Mini flashlights with leaky batteries get the reflector.saved for a outdoor lamp.
PVC smokestacks.
Some chain is actually silver jewelry
Water towers;, tomatoe can, frosting tub, Go-Jo tub.
Misc. tanks; toy suitcase is upright, on a rack. White butane cylinders look a lot like the vertical gas tanks I've seen up close.
Phonograph tone arm for a crane boom.
A fencing sword and thin cutlass from large seamstress's pins
Aluminum fan blade and shaft from an electric cooler/heater makes an EXCELLENT old.school cooling tower fan blade (huge)
Laser pointer lens cap, inverted for a ground sconce to light the flag.
Rectangular sock hangers; cut off the hanger and you have an "unbreakable" diagonal pattern gate (or fence section)
The bottom of.small cage type flowerpots resemble fan guards on hvac, and other industrial equipment.
I still have.my"painted black" popcorn loads from.when I was a kid.
Pinecone trees too.
An old sand filled ashtray from an old sandstone filter (mystery origin, maybe welding.gas filter)
My Monopoly.games are missing the dog and 2 wheelbarrows
Jenga.blocks.have.been fodder.for all kinds of.nonsense.
I have a boxcar's wheel in place of a broken #90 red L
It is a hair trigger and can jam "on", but that's ok because it's just for the light over the power supplies. It works well enough I haven't.changed it out.
Pickup shoes from feeler gauges, mushroom head fasteners, solder wick (wire braid). Rollers from metal balls of pillow blocks, and bushings/bearings.
I made a train shelf protector from a 36x52", tinted, uv blocking, scratch resistant, hard to crack, DLP tv screen's plastic cover layer (there are a few layers behind it, all inside the pop off frames.you can pull off.with your.fingers or.bang off.with the heel of a.hand.)