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8 legs for a common and useful shelving system, we took the best four. They had some fancy castors on them but no sign of the shelves or the little collets you need to hang the shlves on the legs. These are for a friend with storage needs.
A cast iron thingy that allows one to bake things in the shapes of various animals. Wow! It has seemingly never been used. This will be donated to somebody who might have a use for it.
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A bunch of brass switch covers, mostly of them OK and one ornately ugly. These are for a neighbour who may have need for such.
This is a cheapo junky pipe wrench but will be handy to keep in a car or some such place where it might provie of crucial usefullness one day.
A Mac G4 tower missing HD but full of memory. THis will be invesitgated for its usefuless but we suspect it is getting a bit old to be anything but fanboy fodder.
A random travelling bag that has a couple of rips but is otherwise in very usable shape. This will be stored for the next visiting European to use to take all their swag home with. Now the US really does have monopoly money we expect more surgical shopping strikes to pass through and require extra bags for homeward transportation.
A tie down that presumably literally fell off the back of a lorry. It will come in handy for our trailor. Note this is genuine "stuff" because even though the owner lost it they threw it away by not coming back for it.
We got a modern Schwinn racing style bike a while ago and recently found the parts to fix it up. The handlebars were rusty and drop style, not popular and not nice. We put on some straight bars and old schwinn sparkly grips and gave the thing a clean up and voila. This may already have a home waiting for it.
A Griswold No9 skillet in excellent condition. This one is nicer than ours in certain details so we will use this and pass our existing Griswold No9 on. Shown here after cleaning and a light cure at 450F.
An anonymous cast iron skillet marked only "8" on the handle and "8-" underneath". It has a nicely shaped handle, very nice interior and a heat ring so this will displace our prior skillet of this size, a Wagner. Again the Wagner will find a home with a worthy kitchen, after all we have been breaking it in for a few years now.....
A Griswold baster dutch oven with wire handle. The lid has the handle broken off, such a shame. This is a possible donation as we are not sure we need this. Pic shows it in gloriously unrestored state, though note that the previous two looked like this a short while before their pictures were taken. Most of the appearance problems stem from a weird dusty coating. The lid on this is a beautiful casting.
Some bike stuff, we need to replenish stock to that we can sell to the hipsters for the spring bike awakening. No pics yet.
A Kelty Jogging Stroller in fine condition. This is an interesting artifact in that is a full jogging stroller, with better standard features than most but it folds like a Maclaren stroller. It is way superior on features to almost every other jogger out there. Surplus to our requirements but it will make a blazing appearance on craigslist.
Small form-factor DVD player that also plays endless other alphabet soup formats. Complete with manual and remote. This is of course pretty useless to us but is a standing request from somebody in need of one. (Yours Russ, just get it out of our house!).
A pile of books, nothing too thrilling but some OK stuff there. Mythology book for anthro-prof friend, Linux book for the next noob that asks me about Linux, wine book for some vinophilic friends, some of them to read and some for reference.
A fancy shiny Peg Perego baby seat for use in those newfangled automobiles. This is a good seat in excellent condition and it arrives just in time, sort of. It was not even very dirty but it got a good wash anyway. It came with the base but that is not shown in the pic:
Small cast iron radiator, usable for water or steam. Available until it sells on the list of craig.
A nice shiny green jogging stroller, all complete and ready to go. It is a bit of a strange shape in the area that is in immediate contact with the offspring's butt, but there you go. It does seem to work though and no apparent reason for discard. Craigslist for this.
A Gateway 40 inch TV/monitor. It has some issues, often there is fuzzy ghosting all over it especially at startup, but this pic shows it perfectly clear. We will probe its precise deficiencies and see if it can be used.
A colleague found some RAID arrays being tossed, and inside were 60 or so seemingly good 120G Western Digital hard drives. Now we would not want to use these in a RAID type application now, much easier just to go buy 7 1TB drives. But for random machines that need a new HD or an extra 120G or sneaker drives, they seem just fine. We will test them as we use them, you may also if you need one.
No investigation of drive content here for several obvious reasons. Sorry.
A wooden FAO Schwarz rocking horse in OK shape. It seems to function quite well as an offspring amuser so it will be deployed in the offspring amusement device zone.
A roll of plastic drop cloth. Super handy!
Three Dell Pentium 4 PC machines all seemingly complete and in good order, they were all dumped off by the same guy. Jumping ahead, they all seem to come from the office of a "fund of funds manager".
First one is a hyperthreading 2.8Ghz 512M RAM with an 80G HD. No reason for discard, boots to XP fine. The following summarizes their computer usage:
28 disturbed
14 blue october
12 nickelback
11 vertical horizon
10 pink
10 maroon 5
10 concrete blonde
9 vast
9 queen
9 pm dawn
9 my chemical romance
9 house of pain
9 him
9 fall out boy
8 toad the wet sprocket
8 korn
8 blake lewis
The next one is also a Dell hyperthreading machine, 2.6Ghz, 512M RAM, 80G HD. It seems to function well with no apparent reason for discard. Only 15G or so of the disk used. Salient points include:
Next machine is a Dell Pentium 4 1.6Ghz 384M RAM with a 20G HD. No apparent reason for discard, seems to work fine. Though obviously if you are going to toss the above machines this one is going to go also.
The 2.8 benchmarked 12300 secs vs an existing machine's 15600 secs, and hence will be pressed into service.
A Calphalon 8.5 qt dutch oven. Missing the lid and the finish on the inside so this is set for a warranty return. It might even be a keeper as we do not have one quite like this.
A cast iron Griswold Oval Roaster, number 3. This will be just fine for roasting ornithological specimens of a certain size that happen to fall into our food chain, namely chickens and ducks. We had chicken last night in fact and though the thing was nicely roasted in the deep cast iron chicken fryer we were wishing for a proper oven roaster. Well, here it is. The more astute amoung you will have already recognized the pans in the background from their prior starring appearances on this page. Note that the roaster has only had one initial cure after its clean, it will soon turn black like the others.
This is not really available, if you want one they are hard to find but there is one here, at least at the time of writing.
Two nice cast iron radiators, set up for steam but usable for water. People we know often need these things and if nobody we know happens to right now, the interwebs are usually kind enough to introduce us to new people who need them. How nice.
Update: Sold on craigslist to some guy who bought a repossessed house from a bank which had had all its radiators removed. Cheeky.
A Peg Perego Pliko folding stroller in good shape. It has been used but is certainly fine enough to make its way up onto the list of craig. This model was our stroller of choice for a while, especially while travelling. It folds in two dimensions, had reclining seat back, 5 point harness etc etc. Also it is not junky, the earlier Peg Peregos tended to get very brittle after a while but this generation seem to age better.
A Dell pizza box style PC, 128M RAM 700Mhz celeron, 10G HD, seemingly in good order, 1st Grade maths CD still in the drive. In keeping with first impression the machine had nothing but kids software on it. No evidence of having been connected to the net, no surfing detritus etc. Oh well, I guess this was a valid use for a machine, just not very interesting for us. Available if you have a use for such, it runs quietly and could be used for some appliance task.
A couple of Pentium 4 PC seemingly complete. First one is HP and has a pretty randomized HD, good job previous owner on wiping. People are learning, upon booting the CDrom makes funny noises and we get a "hot dust" smell. It may need attention.
Second one is a small form factor Dell, 2.4 Ghz, 256M RAM, 40G HD. Bob, you want this? Here is a list of salient data from the HD:
My Documents% xl2txt Passwords.xls | cut -f 1 -d"|" SHEET:Sheet1 Numbers / Passwords Smith Barney Vanguard Chaseonline American Express Fidelity.com Fidelity ATP Yahoo Fin IBD AIM Modem WSJ Pension/ Hewitt Verizon Wireless Verizon Wireless/DSL Verizon.com Wireless sync HP Tech Support Compusa Support M
10 Annie Lennox
13 Beat Positive
12 BeBe & CeCe Winans
9 Black Box
11 Bonnie Raitt
13 Collective Soul
113 Compilations
10 Crosby, Stills & Nash
11 Dave Matthews Band
12 Deee-Lite
7 Eric Clapton
45 James Taylor
11 Natalie Merchant
17 Red Hot Chili Peppers
13 Shawn Mullins
10 Stephen Stills
15 Steve Winwood
12 Susan Tedeschi
8 The Allman Brothers Band
13 The Pretenders
12 U2
13 Young MC
A bedside lamp with a remotely steampunk air to it. It had no bulb in it but one was procured and inserted and it worked. This is now fulfilling its purpose next to a new bed.
A substantial roll of folded drop plastic for curtaining off areas under construction, and other such tasks. Convenient really, this will be used for the next set of replacement windows we put in. The roll is only 14 inches wide or so but the plastic folds out into a larger sheet.
A small piece of brass that is the perfect size to make a new striker plate for a door that happens to be in need of one. No pic, you know what a small piece of brass looks like. Same door that got the mahogany earlier.
A couple of pieces of mahogany showed up just as we were working on our front entranceway. The step/saddle/threshhold was junk so we tossed it and some form of custom made thing seemed in order. Voila, the materials (or most of them) showed up. From pickup time to install was less then three hours, a good turnaround.
A Tivo Series 2. This is untested and uninvestigated, watch this space. We have had several requests for these so if it works this should find a home pretty quickly.
Update: Tivo seems to work but does not have lifetime subscription on it (booo!) and we do not have the remote. All boring, sorry, no screenshots yet. It will be used by the Z dudes in some capacity we suspect.
A selection of laptop accessories including two base stations and some power supplies and such. A nice USB wheelmouse also. Shown, the two docking stations, which may end up on ebay as people seem to like these things there.
A Kenwood 5CD and DVD changer, supports MP3 etc. This is more potential fodder for the record store dudes, initial testing seems good. There were alas no CDs in the tray, we love found music! Grainy pic shot during dodgy testing with Jesus Jones, Doubt. Not an especially good CD to test a CD player but the first we had to hand. Damn, going back to this whole physical media thing is tricky!
A double Jeep Wrangler stroller. These are not as nice as the Maclaren equivalents but other people seem to like them. This has a cupholder and little bag thingy and is in perfect condition so it will be hitting Craigslist soon.
A Garmin Streetpilot III or some such, seemingly new in the box with all the accesories. Previous owner had some token effort at use but it looks very shiny etc. More investigation required on this one, we would love to salvage the tracks data from it to see where the previous owners drove but the preliminary powerup suggests it has never been used in anger.
A cast iron steam radiator, in OK shape. Two nicer ones were present but they were BOD (broken upon discard). It is so sad to see some really nice thing in perfect shape be tossed away only to break upon impact with the hard surface it falls on. Craigslist for one this unless any readers want to trade a few beers for it.
Update: Sold within 24 hours. Fine stuff.
An Xport bike rack suitable for a 2 inch receiver. Seems in perfect shape and will be sold as such on craigslist.
First a double jogger with super large wheels and in very nice shape. A puff of air all round and a quick clean and this is ready to go. The hood is missing, sad.
Next a single Maclaren, all very nice and functional. Needed a clean as the seat area was full of crumbs and hair (used for a dog maybe?).
What seems like an early Peg Perego Pliko. If you have used a Pliko you will know that these are pretty nice contraptions for general purpose offspring carriage. The fundamental design seem to be the same as later models so this may find a home somewhere.
An iBook 14inch. Seems in sort of OK shape, may boot but had screen problem. Either way it awaits HD inspection and overall evaulation. Looks for parts of this on eBay next month I suspect.
Two batteries for a 12inch iBook aluminium, seemingly in good shape and one of which having a full charge in it. These will be tested and sent to handy iBook users who happen to require them.
A Dell Pentium 4 PC with speed around 1.5Ghz, missing memory and some plastic. will probably be used for parts or in the making of a chimera. No pics for now, you know what a Dell computing machine looks like.
A not so high quality Trek mountain bike. It is serviceable enough to be sold anyway, it will be going to craigslist. No apparent reason for discard, the tyres even had air in them. It gave us great entertainment riding around in the snow in the middle of the night already, great value for money.
Update: Sold as a commute bike to a happy guy who found it on the list of craig. We were almost sad to see it go as it had provided some amusement riding around in the snow in the meantime.
Some teak outdoor furniture. A bench, two chairs and one armed chair all matching in a modern-ish style. The bench has some discard damage (i.e. something that seems have have occurred as it was thrown away) but that is easily fixable, we think. Otherwise they are all solid and just need a clean and maybe some teak oil. We could use these but we have a bunch of this type of stuff already so these may become available after some consideration.
A Peg Perego Prima Pappa rocking high chair. What a stupid idea! Rocking one's small offspring while they are eating seems like a recipe for a mess. Chair is in OK shape but has a hole in the fabric seat liner. We shall see what occurs here, probably will be sold on the list of craig, to some people the rocking element is a premium feature or some such.
A Gateway Pentium 4 with WinME installed, all present and correct on the initial physical inspection at least. Machine belonged to an adolescent male, here are some humdrum google searches, after having removed the ego driven self-searches to protect the former owner from your specific (as opposed to non-specific) ridicule.
1 aladdin
1 aladdin music
1 Amitai Etzioni
1 APA format
3 ballericons
1 brittany spears mexico gave the finger
1 chopin
1 clean ocean action
2 drums percussion premier drum workshop dw paiste sabian zildjian maple birch tama ludwig
1 dvojak
1 dvorak
2 first union bank
2 free online english dictionary
1 garden state
1 garfunkle
1 gloria steinem and the women's rights movement
1 grieg
1 guitar tabs doobie brothers
1 guitar tabs stone sour
1 IM Icons
2 instant messenger icons ultimate
1 johnson and johnson corporate law office
1 johnson and johson
1 journal of memory and language
3 Karate Kid
1 koepi xvid
1 Laetrile
1 meister german hard liquor yager
1 Michael Novak
1 minnesota test
1 monkey bowl ultimate frisbee tournament
1 mozart
1 nashville
1 nashville maps
2 nashville maps
1 nashville shop zippo lighters
3 nebuchanezzar
1 new jersey garden state
4 nfl draft players
2 official site garden state
1 off shore dumping
1 paul simon and garfunkel
1 paul simon and garfunkle
1 phone directory site
4 photos drums percussion premier drum workshop dw paiste sabian zildjian maple birch tama ludwig
2 point to wrist point to crotch bathroom
2 premier drums
1 "baby names" origins
2 "johnson and johnson" corporate law office
1 "Sextus Empiricus" Chrysippus dog
1 rec.sports.disc
1 sci
1 ssci
1 state map
1 tennessean
1 tennessean newspaper
6 tennessee tour guide
1 the ebola virus
1 the new york times
1 the world is not enough
1 Thomas Anderson
2 ultimate frisbee summer league cleveland ohio
1 university of rochester
1 upa
1 USGS
1 wax museum nashville tennessee
2 wax museum tennessee
1 web of knowledge
1 yager meister
1 yagermeister
1 yeagermeister
2 yellow pages
1 zanies
1 zion bible
Not sure about reason for discard yet but the disk seems to have some not-quite-fatal-yet issues. Closer inspection of the Recycled dir shows a discarded Morpheus install with a bunch of music, images and porn movies, notably several Jenna Jameson offerings. Evidence of stuff no longer present is also plentiful in db files.
Some random PVR, not a tivo. It seemed to have issues coming up properly but when we pulled the 80G HD inside that seemed to work fine. OK then, the rest of it is junk and we prepare to see what can be found in terms of cool TV programming on this thing. Exactly one recording was present, and it was 250 seconds of TV snow. Of course it is not even well encoded snow because no PVR manufacturer sets up their mpeg2 parameters to be useful for snow. Download the 150M file here, if you are really curious. Play it directly from your command line with:
mplayer http://user-agent.org/stuff/images/pvr_snow.vob
A jogging stroller with ripped fabric in two critical places we fear. Oh no, a genuine reason for discard! Never mind, we have another in stock that has a cracked aluminium wheel mount area. We were going to weld that up but it seems a lot faster to take the (almost new) fabric from that one and put it on this frame. The new chimera stroller is now on the list of craig, trying to feed the family. Fine and dandy.
The VIA server from the other day has no graphics on it so I resolved to find a PCI graphics card for it (no AGP on the board). Seek and ye shall receive. Pic may come soon.
A Cosco Alpha-Omega car seat for young offspring that is in perfect shape and feature laden, in a good way. We really have no use for it though so we will be floinking it off on the list of craig. Available at heavy discount to readers of this page.
This is thoroughly obselete but we picked it up for our friends who own a CD store, and yes they seem to be thriving. They are pretty much series-of-tubo-phobic. They do like CD changers though for the store and requested such from us. It even being a DVD changer and they being in the process of expanding into more DVDs I bet they will want a TV from us next....
A 1U short server with a Via twin CPU motherboard in it. This seems like a pretty nice machine so we may make it into a nice little backup server or some such in the basement. It is not fully tested as yet but so far we have great hopes for this particular piece of garbage.
A Babytrend double stroller in perfect condition apart from a 1.5 in hole in the fabric in the side of one the of the seats. It sort of looks like a cleaned up cigarette burn but larger. Who knows what the modern parents of today allow their horrible offspring to do.......
Today a bumper crop of german language books, always useful. No pic for now.
A Trek cheapo hybrid bike. Cheapo but quite useful if you actually want to ride somewhere. Flat fix and a quick clean and it is off to meet up with craigslist.
Update Sold on the list of craig rather quickly, fine effort
A pretty large cast iron steam heating radiator. This is a available to anybody that might want it (Monica?). Failing that it will be making an appearance on craigslist. It is a pretty good size and weighs probably more than 200 lbs.
Update: Sold on the list of craig to some happy fresh first time homeowners. They seemed a bit sketchy on the whole concept of steam heating but hopefully this is what they need.
First up a super fancy double jogging stroller in near perfect shape. Tyres needed a little air, and in fact the tyres seem to imply that this had never been used. The blue on in the background is a complete and very similar double jogger but it has a bend in it. Its fate is uncertain but the red one will be a craigslist special very soon.
Next a super fancy Maclaren double. This needed nothing but a clean as it had obviously sat in a garage or some such and got dusty. All very spiffy, it is sitting up on the table to catch some wind to assist in the drying process after the quick hose down.
A single mesh seat Maclaren pushchair with seat liner in it. Again perfect condition and all ready for some usage.
A Peg Perego highchair, offspring food induction for the use of. It is in excellent shape, including the padded seat. This will be sold as we have one identical.
Some random pieces of drumkit hardware. Not useful to use but we know people who may use such things. Bob?
These two are for some acquaintances that run a record store. They value the cd changer functionality for in-store use. The Sony works (despite its sketchy appearance in the pic) and is a very common discard these days, what with the advent of these newfangled music media. The JVC is actually a DVD changer and seems pretty fancy, not sure if it works yet.
Yet another record player, no pretence at ever needing one of these but it will go happily on ebay. Unless you, the reader, wants one? The last one was a big hit with its new owner.
A Baby Jogger jogging stroller in OK shape. Some rust on wheels and fittings, tyres needed air. It will find a home somewhere.
A Dell Pentium 4 PC, as yet uninvestigated so watch this space for more details. Pic of it opened up with all the guts showing, seems complete and not even very dusty. Came with ostensibly working flat screen and wireless keyboard and mouse. Yum.
This will be straight off to ebay to help somebody fix their laptop. Stripped, missing HD, memory, battery, charger etc. Otherwise in OK shape.
An Eddie Bauer branded Cosco child seat and booster combination device. This is in excellent condition and not at all old. We acquired it because a friend has guests coming with young offspring and she specifically asked us for a booster or seat for them to use while here. Well, we got her the AND rather than the OR version of the request but that should be fine.
A Carvin Profresssional Power Amplifier. We are pretty sure somebody we know will have a use for one of these, and failing that we will introduce outselves to somebody who needs one via craiglist or some such. Very dusty but otherwise in good shape, untested as yet.
A kids tagalong trailer bike (or some such). You bolt this thing onto the back of your bike and your offpspring gets dragged along helplessly as you cycle but simultaneously gets the feeling that they are empowered or contributing or some such. Already sold on craigslist.
A random late Raleigh 3-speed bike in OK shape. It has the usual Raleigh stuff, plus a couple of rust spots that do not really show up because the paint is rusty coloured to start with. Fine stuff. It has a Brooks leather saddle on it but that is pretty past it unfortunately. Destined for craigslist.
A device for carrying one's offspring behind oneself. This is a mediocre brand, the device itself is in tip top perfect condition but when we tested it the comfort levels for both carryer and carryee were not so good. Hence soon to be available to those with a small wad of cash in their hand.
A somewhat random but really rather nice Miyata road bike. Clip pedals, nice saddle, rides very nicely. All in all a wonderful bike that we have no use for, hence craigslist at some point for this.
A trashed Trek bike, carbon fibre frame and fancy dura-ace components. Lots of titanium. It seems to have been squished by some heavier vehicle and what is left was tossed. There are several quite expensive components on this thing that are usable, it has been offered up to the Z dudes for scavenging. If you don't know who they are it means you are not sociable enough and do not spend enough time hanging out with us drinking beer and eating dead animals.
A relative asked, "Can you find me a kiddie swing in the garbage...?". We were of course happy to oblige and ended up with three in one day. One happy customer, they only need a clean and something to swing from.
A pretty damn fancy jogging stroller that has a slight crack in the frame near a rear wheel. Some welding will be applied to that (alu frame) and it may then become whole again, at least enough to be sold. Silly Bouncy thing found at the same time.
Some random carry-cot thing that can be mounted to a pram frame or some such. Pretty fancy, OK quality. hence it will be seeking a home out there in craigslist or ebay land.
Giant floor puzzle, 'nuff said? Is it a puzzle for giant floors, or a very large puzzle to be used on the floor. It might not matter.
Some quite nice chunky mahogany pieces and some white oak. They will be useful for some little project down the road, just as the last batch of mahogany was. No pic, you know what wood looks like.
A Craftsman Radial Arm Saw in fine working condition. It is a somewhat old, in a good way, it feels very solid. The blade is a little blunt, at least when tested on some scrap oak. It will be pressed into service I think, should such an opportunity arise.
A selection of cookware including a large calphalon skillet, a ridged base cast iron thingy and a bunch of cuisinart. Some weird German thingy in there also. Mostly pretty good quality and not worn enough for any warranty returns, available-ish. Apply with beer tokens in hand.
A wooden folding chair that is rather comfortable. The finish is still OK and the thing works fine, though seems fairly old. This will employed in various places as needed. It has great appeal dur to its curved seat, hence making it quite comfy. This is rare in a modern chair.
A large box of Lehmann Gross Bahn. Included were many different track sections and accessories. We also missed out narrowly on another box to some guy who wanted it for the scrap brass value. Idiot. The stuff we got is feeding us pretty well via its appearance on ebay.
A Maclaren double stroller. It is pretty faded and a little beat up but somebody may want this so we will make it available to those who might. Pic soon.
First a Dell scanner/printer that is brand new and comes with two extras ink cartridges. Previous owner says this was purchased bundled with a Windows Vista machine but seemed to not work at all with Vista. Hence he tossed it. We will give it a try as we try to remain Windows free, especially Vista free.
A HP printer that according to the previous owner works fine, but his daughter did not like it anymore or something so they tossed it. Investigations to proceed.
A brand new pipe-based clamp. Not much to say about this apart from the fact that it may come in handy.
A shiny new sankey keg complete with small pump. It is half full of Bud light with a born on date of one year ago. We suspect that the Bud is no worse than when it went into the keg. Upon inspection, as shown in the pic, we find that the Bud light seems to have transmogrified into a select and peculiar Belgian style beer with piquant overtones. Look for this from Anheuser-Busch soon....
A pretty chunky chunk of some fairly hard and heavy wood. We are not sure what this will be used for but it seems to have some promise so we will put it in stock.
An old and quite industrial Porter Cable belt sander. When we plugged it in the results were shocking. This may be worth fixing for somebody though as some of the flooring guys tend to like the se super old and grungy tools.
A Dell Pentium 4 PC, 1.4Ghz, 2x 40G HD, 256M RAM, dual boot RedHat and WinME. Former owner was an (technical) employee of a very large computing machinary corporaton. He scrubbed /home /var and numerous other things from the linux install so that it booted but pretty much had nothing of interest on it. Quite slick actually, needlessly so as he really should have zeroed the drives. It seems that he really wanted the machine to boot after it left his possession. The Windows ME install has IE caches chock full of strange windows tutorials and porn. The porn varied from vanilla to kitchen implements (yes, seriously, see . Below we show a image from the cache of great importance to those (like ourselves) who have trouble copying and pasting in Windows ME.
We still have trouble copying and pasting in Windows anything but at least we have now seen the tutorial! No media on machine, no P2P, no digital pics. Sad.
Numerous toys, mostly of the sit in or ride on variety. These were acquired due to the sudden influx of numerous remote relatives and their horrible offspring. First a pedal tow truck thingy. It is all metal and quite nice quality for a toy. We may keep this for a while.
A Peg Perego plastic tractor, this is nominally a high ticket item so once the horrible offspring have finished with it we will be tossing this on the list of craig.
A friend requested some good cookware for targeted donation purposes. Well, these fit the bill, some vaguely nice cast iron. After he has cured them they will hopefully cook some nice dinners somewhere.
Ross, shiny bike with super slim saddle and collapsable pannier. It is OK, sort of qualifies as hipster material, will be sold on the list of craig, we think. The folding basket is rather handy, we suspect that the targeted hipster purchasers of this machine will not appreciate such devices.
A more junky Ross, with wiggly frame. Not sure if this has any value but we are prepared to test the waters with a quick cleanup etc.
A junky Huffy Kids' bike. It was promptly snapped up by a crazy old woman with a full spectrum of grandchildren, a worthy home we feel.
The spiffy sink we found complete with faucets was scavenged. We donated the faucets to somebody who is rebuilding a bathroom and they are installed, albeit in a temporary fashion. Note in the pic that there are no walls and the drain leads via a Montego Diesel radiator hose into a bucket. But they are putting the taps we found to good use, and will do so more in future! They live again.
All the keyboards and mice plus two more keyboards were stacked up. The mice were still plugged in indicating that somebody was tossing an entire lab of macs, but we have not seen those macs yet. What will we do with all those hockey pucks, most useless mouse ever. One of them has been marked up as a special vision impaired model. The missing two were already donated to a serial spiller of drinks on keyboards for use as hot spares. The Dell sneaked in there as we needed one to complete a pc + extras package for somebody.
A quick grip clamp, has some surface rust which was promptly removed with a trip to Mr Bench Grinder. It does not have infinite length as the picture might suggest. It will join the array of clamps on the wall in the basement that are poised to help out at a moment's notice.
After the reasonable success of our bench rehabilitation somebody requested some similar bench ends for their own project. Well, ask and you shall receive, sometimes. The ends are now stripped of the wood and ready for pickup but here is the bench before we went crazy with the sawzall. Lots of layers of nasty paint.
A faintly interesting hammer and a wooden plane, these acquired for us to pass on to the rabid tool collectors in our genetic neighbourhood. They were in a huge bin of stuff, most of which has rusted away far too much to be interesting. A shame.
A fairly nifty canonndale saddle bag thingy. It was pig to pull of the wrecked seat it was attached to but we have it now. It is pretty nice.
A Radio flyer red truck. As our offspring holds a US passport it is probably approriate that she has one of these things. This one is miraculously in excellent shape, they tend to rust quite quickly. It may have something to do with it apparently having been used not but some unwary offspring in the garden but by the staff in the offices of a major drugs company. We took the stickers off before taking the pic.
A Dell laptop carcas pretty much stripped, no HD, optical, memory etc. Somebody on ebay may want this so we will give it a shot.
Followed by a laptop docking station in seemingly good order. It is a pretty fancy one we suppose. Again, ebay fodder for whoever may want it an bid highest.
A Vaio laptop dock still in the original packing. It may or may not be unused and pristine but it seems fine. This will be paying a visit, along with the rest of the laptop garbage, to Mr and Mrs Ebay.
A stainless steel asparagus cooker, seemingly in good shape but missing the insert. No matter, this thing is useful for its stainless steel vessel-like qualities. Shown here after a quick clean with pumice for the body and in the dishwasher for the lid. No particular reason for that.
A pretty fancy stovetop espresso maker. It has some special attachment that allows one to make cappucinos direct in the stovetop device. Pretty fancy indeed! We have yet to test this extended capability but as the thing appears pretty much unused we suspect it will work to some degree.
A keg. More precisely, a half a keg, that is still keglike in topology. This has a bung but the tap fitting seems a little shonky. We will present this to the local brewer for his opinion and hopefully usage. Intense competetion for this, all the scrap metal opas wanted it for the deposit return and probably not for the couple of gallons of beer in it. What they do not know is that the gratitude of the local micro-brew-master is worth more than the cash deposit on any keg. Morons.
A slightly beat up jogging stroller by Baby Trend. Steel frame has some rust. Folding mechanism needed oil to work smoothly. Tyres need air. Fabric needed a clean. This will hit craigslist for some lowish price.
Also seen in background is a Tonka excavator thingy that seems to amuse the offspring unduly. Saves us hosting a pic here to mention that in passing.
Also found, a rather nice jogging stroller with an aluminium frame etc and no sun damage. Wheels, fabric, everything in good shape. Quick wash and it is ready for craigslist at some pretty high price, people don't value what they acquire unless you charge them accoridngly.
A whole metric butt-load of "Hooked On..." book/tape sets. Mostly these have not been filled in etc and we have no real use for this stuff but somebody we know might. Available or being got rid of.
A pair of somewhat ugly but quite functional chairs for small offspring. Small offspring in question seems to quite like them so that is fine.
A Trek bike had rusted components all over except the frame, wheels and seating gear. We took the aforementioned unrusted things and mated the rear wheel with a tyre from another bike to make yet another replacement rear wheel for the turquoise mongoose that is now a regular feature here. Pic shows just the happy rear wheel ready for install.
Also found, a pretty fancy bike for juvenile people. This will serve well in engaging and distracting the numerous cousinous people that are due to come our way next weekend. The chain shows up a trifle rusty in the pic but it works fine at present and will have received a cosmetic cleanup by the time it is pressed into service. Or maybe we will sell it on craiglist before they get here, gotta love some serendipity in one's life.
One iMac g4 800Mhz in fine shape. Mostly unremarkable stuff, lots of pics and movies shot in Central America and lots of music in spanish. Note much in the caches and little else to poke around in. Maybe more details soon.
A Pentium 4 Compaq 1.6Ghz 512 RAM that has to be one of the ugliest computers of the recent era. It has Windows XP installed on a 70G HD, does not boot and had a Windows 2000 install cd in the tray. Hmmmmm. Had kazaa installed with this lot in the "My Shared Folder"
04 - She Hangs Brightly - Mazzy Star.mp3 17 Tsunami.wma Blonde Redhead 10-Mother.mp3 Blonde Redhead-The Gentle Waves - Ballad of Lemons.mp3 Cruxshadows - Insomnia.mp3 Finch - i miss you.wma Joy Drop- All Too Well.mp3 Joydrop - Sometimes Wanna Die.mp3 Liam Lynch - My united States of Whatever.mp3 Local H - Bound For The Floor.mp3 Loudermilk- Insectica.mp3 Marylin Manson - Coma White.mp3 Mazzy Star - Before I Sleep.mp3 Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have.mp3 Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie & Roger Waters - Comfortably Nu.mp3 One True Thing - Dearest.mp3 Rasputina - Diamond Mind.mp3 Rise Against - Heaven Knows.mp3 The Get Up Kids - Out Of Reach (acoustic).mp3 The Get Up Kids - Overdue.mp3 The Get Up Kids - Stay Gone.mp3 The Rapture-Echoes-the coming of spring.mp3 The Weakerthans - Aside.mp3 The weakerthans jks- saint cecilia.mp3 at the drive-in - pickpocket.mp3 mazzy starr - Jesus and Mary Chain Cover.mp3 miranda sex garden - gush forth my tears (1).mp3 neutral milk hotel - king of carrot flowers 1.mp3 saves the day, new found glory- words unspoken-The Get Up Kids.mp3 tapping the vein - Sugarfalls.mp3 tapping the vein - crushing.mp3
Machine was probably used by a whole family, many of whom are pictured in the photos and decribed in the resumes left on the HD. One is a very accomplished resume writer. Also they are Ukrainian in origin and hence had lots of cyrillic web stuff in caches. Here are some very language-like google searches made by the teenage girl of the household, we guess that some of these are homework but some of them are not. Can you guess which are which?
how are fossils used to identify rock layers? how did avagadro come up with his number? how did avogadro come up with his number? how did the twelfth amendment change presidential election? how does lorenzo's oil work? how do humans interact with their enviorment in the state of washington? how do humans interact with their environment in the state of washington? how many chromosomes are in two new daughter cells? how many people in the world have wilson's disease? how to calculate scientific notation how to draw mouths how to feng shui a bedroom how to give oral sex how to give oral sex to a male what's gwen stefani's favorite lipstick? what are some sites that are used to start and store online diaries? what are the seven deadly sins what did colonists do to rebel the sugar act what events caused the war of 1812? what events led to the war of 1812? what events led up to the war of 1812? what is a virtual image in science? what is erucic acid what is neon light what is neon light in physics what is radioactive dating? what is the definition of a virtual image in science? what is the definition of neon light in physical science? what is the definition of neon light in science? what is the difference between d-amino acids and l-amino acids? what led to the war of 1812? what problems in india facing as a result of modernization? what problems is india facing as a result of modernization? what processes in the human body produce carbon dioxide? what was the balfour declaration? where can i start an online diary? where is amsterdam who discovered wilson's disease? who has wilson's disease who was james oglethorpe who was william penn who won the war of 1812? why are the plasma membranes of plant cells hard to see? why did jean de bueil build the chateau usse? why was palestine not granted independence from great britain?
A cross-section of teenage girl stuff I guess, especially with the search for pro anorexia websites added in. 75 unique lyrics related searches also in the mix, etc etc. To finish here is a nice picture that was on the HD, in the mother of the family's space.
Wire basket at the side of the road in curbside garbage. Shown in pic fulfilling new duties, i.e. storing hard drives. Handy Dandy.
The mahogany we found turned out to be fancy porch floor planking. Some of it has already been deployed in the construction of this essential piece of hardware.
A tool chest (rusty and crappo) filled with a selection of interesting tools. Including but not limited to the following. A Remington powder gun thingy for blasting things into other things, some surface rust. We have no use for it so it is available.
Some solder. This stuff does not go bad and we are always running out of it.
A tasty selection of fanbelts. We tossed all the dry rotted ones and kept this sub-selection. These will be donated to an individual we know who has great need for a variety of these.
A set of valves hoses and torch for oxy-acetylene usage. The hoses are super long and may be in good shape. The valves and torch and pretty beat up. We will have to sinpect these for their potential usefulness.
Also present was a bit of scrap brass and copper, always handy in the sense that it turns into cash at some point.
A rather dubiously named bike, Free Spirit indeed. It is not the most fancy thing in the world but is in pretty good condition bar the missing tube on the front wheel. It also required an air impact wrench to get the back wheel off, interesting stuff. We threw on the nice wheels from that trashed Mongoose a while ago and it is ready to deploy into the custody of some distant family member's horrible offspring.
Some time ago we found a stainless steel rubbish bin, in the rubbish of all places, it probably showed up on this page. Or if not, should have been. The pedal never really worked due to overall cheapness of the mechanism and we just lift the lid all the time. A while ago we picked up a heavy aluminium pan for the scrap value and after we had chiselled the rivets off to toss the handles, the second handle had a use suggested for it. Pic shows it in action.
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