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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.
Raleigh LTD-3 bicycle in blue. This a is a classic made in Nottingham English bike in good condition. It has basically never been ridden, still the original tyres with a little dry rot but perfectly ridable. Chrome is all pretty good apart from on the optional extras, the speedo and kickstand fitted are crappo quality but functional. The chainguard is slightly kinky also, somebody may have hoofed it at some point. Brooks saddle (cheap version) also fitted. Rear luggage rack very useful.
Also with it was a small bag for of duplo, shown here draining after a wash. The colander we had already.
This coffee maker is the same as the one we have in our lab so the carafe is handy to have for a spare. As suspected the coffee maker itself does not work, bad heating element, so that will be tossed and the carafe stored in the lab for that fateful day when we break the other one.
Some books, Coetzee, Le Carre and other stuff of varying quality. Saves a trip to the library.
Well, this update is not actually very big as its title might imply, it is actually regarding the aforementioned Giant bike. Specifically it seemed in a pretty sorry state but is now a pretty fine bike. It still looks a little shonky in places but that is good for the theft repellent quality. It is a good solid ride.
A Dell Pentium 3 PC and an IBM Pentium 3. These are for a friend who has a 266 Mhz Pentium 2 and said that he would welcome anything better that that for use somewhere in his home. We shall see.
A Calphalon Stainless steel skillet. This is in near perfect condition, reason for discard seems to have been a few specks of greasy dirt on one side of the thing. Not visible in this pic as I had just taken the required two minutes to clean them off. Works well and is pretty much available to anybody who wants it.
A Kitchen Aid stainless pot, sort of a milk warming pan or something. We may use this as it fills an empty cookware niche in the kitchen. Absolutely no apparent reason for discard.
A Campbell Hausfeld PowerPal compressor. It is of no great use to us due to our predominatly high CFM requirements but it may form the basis of a vehicle installed portable compressor. It works fine and just has some light rust on a couple of the steel components.
A fairly random mix of books, a mushroom taxonomy books that seems super useful, Anna Karenina and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. No spoilers here, even though it is too late for you to realistically expect me to to worry about that.
After the frantic bike (re)building effort last weekend we used up quite a few spares from the stockpile so it was good to find a few random bits today, some good tyres, tubes, wheels and quick release skewers. Also present was a beautiful old Schwinn but the rust had taken too much hold on the rims so we left that in the scrap metal.
This Schwinn bike seat was actually on a discarded exercise bike, i.e. one without wheels. It was so stylish in an un-cool way that I decided that it needed to be put on real bicycle (on which one might also obtain exercise, imagine that) so that it could see more of the world with it's campy cool logo.
This Giant carcass seems in pretty poor shape at first sight but due to our freshly replenished spares department it could probably be quite a usable beater bike pretty quickly. Some rust on chain and brake cables etc but will work fine for a long time yet with some care.
Hmm, Giant carcass, makes one think of Ender's Game, a copy of which has appeared on this page.
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