2004-07-17 Fuel

Found a restaurant with a small dumpster full of waste oil. Was maybe 6 feet by 2.5 feet and had a foot of oil in it. I make that about 400 litres, or around 100 gallons of fuel. I got 20 gallons first time hence have lots to look forward to. Quality was good, nice and thin and clear.

2004-07-15 Mac Hardware

Found a pile of 5 old Mac laptops and a Newton, but decided not to take them as they were so super old and useless.

2004-07-15 Fuel

10 more gallons of oil from the drum I found earlier. There are maybe 5-10 more in there but it is getting more murky as I get further down.

2004-07-14 Craftsman Table Saw

One Craftsman table saw. It is very heavy and has pretty high speed. It was missing the belt when we picked it up but the temporary use of a genuine mercedes alternator belt demonstrated the functionality of the unit. Missing a fence unfortunately and the legs need tightening up. Pic of it showing evidence of testing around

As I did not until now have a table saw this one gets to find a home in the basement, at least until a better free one comes along.

2004-07-13 Veg Oil

Lastly I took some buckets to that drum of cooking oil and got 10 gallons. Half is now filtered and ready to go, the rest soon to follow. Will get the remaining 15 gallons tomorrow. Need more plastic buckets......

2004-07-13 Shredder

Well, got another shredder today, must be about the fourth this year. It is not a cross cut version and is missing its basket and lower flap but has a credit card slot. It is an Aurora AS1002MSB. When I first tested it I got nothing but I dismantled it and removed some stuck plastic and paper crud and it works fine now in forward and reverse. Pic below of it tastfully poised on my next (but not yet fully assembled) cork trivet:

2004-07-13 Scanner Thingy

Some kind of PS2 scanning pen inventory dongle device, maybe from a store. There was a whole pile of Pitney Bowes kit nearby but it had been half stripped. Pic below:

2004-07-13 Mercedes Educational AV

Weirder still is the Mercedes microfilm and audio educational device plus many cassettes for it. To be explored later on, watch this space.

2004-07-13 Mac Upgrades

Also there was what I think was a Mac Clone from some years ago. HDs were all present and SCSI-2, I left them being impatient. I took what I think is the CPU board in case it is sellable, pic below.

2004-07-13 Compaq

A Compaq Pentium 3 mostly stripped. I took the 10/100 ethernet card and the HD. HD is 6.4G Western Digital 26400 and functions fine, has a total of 20366 files on it. Looks like a functioning WinNT install with FAT32 file system. Former owner was a Morpheus user, but I cannot see much in the way of downloaded crud. Pretty tame HD really this, some files pertaining to appliances and household stuff.

2004-07-12 Fuel

Hmmm, have located a 55 gallon drum with old cooking oil in it. Obviously I have to leave the drum and take the oil, hence I need to go back with several buckets. May also have to accost the owners of the drum, but only after I have this batch from it. It seems to have about 25 gallons in it and quite clear looking.