Advantage of poking around for what may lie unused in the garage: You never know the cost of what you just broke.
Well, I suppose I should be thankful that it wasn't in use and that I didn't break it with my saber!
I can use a shelf for the saber videos, hold my camera for beer videos, and use the bridge rail as a tripod for train videos. Yeah, not out of the woods yet, but the tripod is trashed. The bottom plastic broke apart when I hit it with the base of a torch lamp, it did the 'splits' after breaking, and when the, um, 'no-no parts' hit the floor from the splits, the leg broke right off. It was kinda funny...