2007-09-07 Update:

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.

2007-09-04 Keyboards and Mice

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.

2007-09-04 Clamp

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.

2007-09-04 Bench

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.

2007-09-01 Tools

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.

2007-09-01 Saddle Bag

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.

2007-09-01 Radio Flyer

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.

2007-09-01 Laptop Stuff

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.

2007-09-01 Kitchen Things

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.

2007-09-01 Keg

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.

2007-09-01 Jogging Strollers

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.