....As I was messing around with my latest craftsmen building project, I happened to notice a funny sight....look at the various methods of weighting panels, walls, etc to prevent warping while glue and paint are drying....barbell weights, heavy candles, salt shakers, jar of stain and on and on

What object do you find yourself borrowing from the house to weight your projects???

A 15 lb cat. Seems he always wants to sit on whatever I am working on!

Nice use of "whatever was handy" for the weights!

I have a couple of small tin cans lead in them that I use. But like you, I'll grab for whatever is handy.

I have a few Miracle Whip jars, that I sometimes use for leftovers. Filled with water, they become very useful weights.

Cans of spray paint
Lead Weights
gallon paint cans for larger projects
if possible, I put the item in my wood vice and/or use plastic clamps
I have a few larger speaker magnets I use too

Barbell weights, small blocks of steel. Sometimes I'll place something in between the weight and the work to distribute the load a bit more evenly like a book or piece of hard board as sometimes (the weights in particular) are not entirely flat.

I have three old harddisks from older PCs. They are good weights to be used flat, on the top or on the long side. But they are also good gauge for 90° angles eg. to glue two walls together.

My best weight is a brick. I usually use this to hold down various sections of track when I'm gluing them to the layout.

I've also used large glue bottles but I also recently used a large plastic container of sugar. So part of the track was being held down by the brick and the other part by the sugar, while the glue dried. I always knew I had a sweet layout !

Cheers, Rob

for small weights i use rollers out of large bearings weighing about 2 oz each. for larger i have 10 sections of a 3inch stanless shaft that go aroung 2 lbs each.
jim