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This Vista Sophisticate bike is far from sophisticated but seems fine after a clean up and a few new parts. Just needs a new shifter cable before it is sent to seek its fortune among the hipsters.
This random pressure washer (presumably 1600 psi?) works fine and comes with two different nozzles. No apparent reason for discard. We used it, slightly gratuitously, in the cleaneing of the Vista bike.
Extra Dell laptop power supplies are always handy for testing random laptops.
This small selection of Calphalon cookware will be sorted out and dealt with appropriately. We seem to have a surplus so if you know what's up and want to partake please enquire.
We have several of these but always like to give them to friends so we picked this one up and gave it a test drive, as shown in the pic.
This Steinhausen quad watch winder is a really silly thing. We have no use for it but somebody out there perusing ebay may find themselves compelled to bid on it. Hopefully more than one such.
This hosepipe is more of the industrial hose variety than the garden hose type and hence might actually be good quality. It will be pressed into service assuming there are no issues with it. Reason for discard was that the nozzle was stuck on the end, according to the previous owner. We shall see about that.
Update : The previous owner had put the nozzle in a vise, it seems, and tried to undo the hose. The vise was proabbly squeezing down on the female threads and preventing the intended unscrewage. We, by means of more cunning clampage, got the spray nozzle off and the hose is now a wonderfully useful thing.
Some of the parts in the picture were here previously but a whole bunch were found today. They were all sold off a lot on the list of craig with the Specilized BMX bike seen in the second pic.
A nice chap named Bob came to pick them up and he was on time, organized, polite and interesting. For these virtues he was a awarded a bonus wheel and frame. We are doing our part to civilize the uncouth wilds of the interwebs.
This slightly elegant steam radiator will make somebody war in winter, once a new home for it is found.
This Instep Safari TT double jogger had a bad bearing on the front wheel swivel. By bad we mean that it had totally disintegrated due to the fact that the bearings were not really made to take an axial load. No matter, the manufacturer charged us 4 dollars for new bearings and installed them with minimal fuss. It is now ready for a new life with some nice people to be sent to us by the list of craig.
Update: Sold to the nice chap who previously bought the bike trainer. He was so nice we gave him a free Fuji mountain bike that had not yet made its appearance here.
This Graco Pack and Play is in fine condition. It is of a more modern type with easier to see collapse buttons on the edges (if you have ever used a Pack and Play you will udnerstand that statement). It also has wheels on one end. Somebody who wishes to imprison their offspring in it will introduce themselevs to us via the list of craig.
In the scrap metal we found a biscuit tin with around 20 knives in it. Most of them were total junk but these two Chicago knives are of OK quality and we like them because of their nice wooden handles. They had been through a dishwasher many times and the handles were pretty dry and bleached but some oil brought them back to life. They were not super blunt when picked up and quick hone leaves them servicable.
This small collection of bike parts came from a couple of bike carcasses. They will be filed away so that another bike may be resurrected at some point in the future.
This conveniently pre-aged bluestone showed up and was purloined for a friend who wishes to deploy a garden path to lead people up. All well and good. There was a fair bit more present but somebody had emptied a bunch of wet concrete over some of it and glue it into a large bluestone ansd concrete mass.
This Schwinn Speedster bike and a Rollfast beach cruiser were being tossed by a nice chap. We picked them up and applied some spit and polish to the Schwinn to make it hipster ready. Now that that is a fine yellow thingy.
No picture of the Rollfast yet, it has tentatively been given to somebody's daughter.
This stainless Posi-Flo pool filter unit is not especially interesting except for the fact that somebody of our acquaintance requested something like this for a project. The tank-ness of it is what they want we think, not the filter-ness. Yours if you want it Ben.
This Stihl 039 chainsaw carcas will prove useful to somebody via an introduction on ebay, so will be sent there forthwith. Used Stihl machines are a treasure trove of handy parts.
This Raleigh 400 mountain bike had dead suspension forks. The bike itself is not so bad but the forks were lowest possible quality. We traded in some other garbage sourced bike parts for these Rockshox forks. After a clean up and some fiddling the bike is more or less ready to go.
Update: It seems this frame is under recall. Hmmm.....
This Maclaren Pushchair had a bent axle when we found it, probably driven over backwards by a large vehicle with horrible visibility. That is presumably the reason for discard. The axle straightened up nicely in about 30 seconds, once removed, and it was all put back with some oil to give a super smooth running stroller. This seems to be some funky European model of Maclaren, seemingly not sold in the US. Oooooh, grey market specialness, we will see whether the readers of the list of craig covet this item.
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