2004-09-26 Trap

Its a trap! One for small mammals, yummy. Tested it with some cantelupe as bait and we caught a squirrel. Released it again (squirrel not the cantelupe).

2004-09-26 Bike

A classic 3-speed bike in OK shape. Has been pressed into service as student transport to and from the railway station.

2004-09-25 Micron P3

A Micron Slot 1 Pentium 3 was missing its outer case so I just stripped it for some nice parts, ensemble below (plus some imposters). Memory is def worth something, will help save some other machine

2004-09-25 Hi-fi

Large pile of HiFi stuff today. Starting with a Hafler DH-200 Power amp. Nice condition all round. One just finished on ebay for 150 so this one may find its way there soon.

Dyna Stereo Pre-amp in good condition all round. Again one just went on ebay for 200 or so, hence this one may have to follow it.

A pile of NAD HiFi component parts. Not worth much each but pretty nice. They will find a home some place, either as somebody's garage stereo or even an ebay sale.

2004-09-25 Dell P3

A Dell 733Mhz Pentium 3 low end PC. Does not boot but had 40G hard drive that seems to both function and have a working install of Windows on it (such that Windows can ever be said to be working). Will either be fixed up or failing that chopped for parts (machine not HD).

2004-09-25 Cordless Drill

A Dewalt crappy 12V cordless. After charging appears to work in drill mode but not in screw mode, clutch thingy has broken. These things are so crap that it is not really worth keeping it even if it does work, but who knows. It can always go back.

2004-09-24 Wooden Chest

One wooden chest made of poplar. Nice but somewhat crude, I suspect it was a project of somebody's years ago. Maybe the original maker just died and his widow/offspring just dumped it? It had some form of finish on it with a dark stain but we have stripped it back and refinished it as seen below(it is not as dark as pic suggests). Neighbour came by to covet this during the restoration process.

2004-09-24 Monitor

Random monitor, to be exported to a needy househol with brrod eager for surfing. Nuff said.

2004-09-24 Athlon

Junky Athlon 500MHz. Previous owner was apparently a young female who insisted on lots of pink and annoying animated flowers. That and the spyware made this machine very slow with its Windows 98 install. Fresh install of Windows 2000 runs fine. She used Napster at some stage in the past and had a stupendous collection of crappy/sappy music. I listened to it during the re-install process. Possibly the worst audio track I have ever heard was:

WTC - new york city (night).mp3

Others strongly represented tracks amongst the rest were the Coyote Ugly and Moulin Rouge sound tracks.

2004-09-18 Wood Plane

One Stanley No7 plane. Of no immediate use to me but complete and in need of a cleanup. Presumably will be snapped up by a crazy tool collectors of our acquaintance.

2004-09-18 Plumb Bobs

Three plumb bobs. Seemingly useless you may cry but not if you have a mildly insane neighbour who collects them.