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2007-10-13 Jogging Stroller

A Baby Jogger jogging stroller in OK shape. Some rust on wheels and fittings, tyres needed air. It will find a home somewhere.

Baby Jogger
 

2007-10-13 Dell P4

A Dell Pentium 4 PC, as yet uninvestigated so watch this space for more details. Pic of it opened up with all the guts showing, seems complete and not even very dusty. Came with ostensibly working flat screen and wireless keyboard and mouse. Yum.

Dell Pentium 4
 

2007-10-13 Dell Laptop Carcas

This will be straight off to ebay to help somebody fix their laptop. Stripped, missing HD, memory, battery, charger etc. Otherwise in OK shape.

Dell Laptop
 

2007-10-13 Child Seat.

An Eddie Bauer branded Cosco child seat and booster combination device. This is in excellent condition and not at all old. We acquired it because a friend has guests coming with young offspring and she specifically asked us for a booster or seat for them to use while here. Well, we got her the AND rather than the OR version of the request but that should be fine.

Child Seat
 

2007-10-13 Amplifier

A Carvin Profresssional Power Amplifier. We are pretty sure somebody we know will have a use for one of these, and failing that we will introduce outselves to somebody who needs one via craiglist or some such. Very dusty but otherwise in good shape, untested as yet.

Carvin Amplifier
 

2007-10-06 Trailer Bike

A kids tagalong trailer bike (or some such). You bolt this thing onto the back of your bike and your offpspring gets dragged along helplessly as you cycle but simultaneously gets the feeling that they are empowered or contributing or some such. Already sold on craigslist.

Kids Trailer Bike
 

2007-10-06 Raleigh 3-speed

A random late Raleigh 3-speed bike in OK shape. It has the usual Raleigh stuff, plus a couple of rust spots that do not really show up because the paint is rusty coloured to start with. Fine stuff. It has a Brooks leather saddle on it but that is pretty past it unfortunately. Destined for craigslist.

Raleigh
 

2007-10-06 Offspring Backpack.

A device for carrying one's offspring behind oneself. This is a mediocre brand, the device itself is in tip top perfect condition but when we tested it the comfort levels for both carryer and carryee were not so good. Hence soon to be available to those with a small wad of cash in their hand.

Kids rucksack
 

2007-10-06 Miyata Road Bike

A somewhat random but really rather nice Miyata road bike. Clip pedals, nice saddle, rides very nicely. All in all a wonderful bike that we have no use for, hence craigslist at some point for this.

Miyata
 

2007-09-30 Trek trash

A trashed Trek bike, carbon fibre frame and fancy dura-ace components. Lots of titanium. It seems to have been squished by some heavier vehicle and what is left was tossed. There are several quite expensive components on this thing that are usable, it has been offered up to the Z dudes for scavenging. If you don't know who they are it means you are not sociable enough and do not spend enough time hanging out with us drinking beer and eating dead animals.

trek
 

2007-09-30 Swings

A relative asked, "Can you find me a kiddie swing in the garbage...?". We were of course happy to oblige and ended up with three in one day. One happy customer, they only need a clean and something to swing from.

swings
 

2007-09-30 Offspring transportation roundup

A pretty damn fancy jogging stroller that has a slight crack in the frame near a rear wheel. Some welding will be applied to that (alu frame) and it may then become whole again, at least enough to be sold. Silly Bouncy thing found at the same time.

jogging stroller

Some random carry-cot thing that can be mounted to a pram frame or some such. Pretty fancy, OK quality. hence it will be seeking a home out there in craigslist or ebay land.

carry cot
 

2007-09-30 Floor Puzzle

Giant floor puzzle, 'nuff said? Is it a puzzle for giant floors, or a very large puzzle to be used on the floor. It might not matter.

floor
 

2007-09-29 Wood

Some quite nice chunky mahogany pieces and some white oak. They will be useful for some little project down the road, just as the last batch of mahogany was. No pic, you know what wood looks like.

 

2007-09-29 Radial Arm Saw

A Craftsman Radial Arm Saw in fine working condition. It is a somewhat old, in a good way, it feels very solid. The blade is a little blunt, at least when tested on some scrap oak. It will be pressed into service I think, should such an opportunity arise.

radial arm saw
 

2007-09-29 Cookware Assortment

A selection of cookware including a large calphalon skillet, a ridged base cast iron thingy and a bunch of cuisinart. Some weird German thingy in there also. Mostly pretty good quality and not worn enough for any warranty returns, available-ish. Apply with beer tokens in hand.

cookware
 

2007-09-25 Wooden Folding Chair

A wooden folding chair that is rather comfortable. The finish is still OK and the thing works fine, though seems fairly old. This will employed in various places as needed. It has great appeal dur to its curved seat, hence making it quite comfy. This is rare in a modern chair.

Folding Chair
 

2007-09-25 LGB

A large box of Lehmann Gross Bahn. Included were many different track sections and accessories. We also missed out narrowly on another box to some guy who wanted it for the scrap brass value. Idiot. The stuff we got is feeding us pretty well via its appearance on ebay.

LGB
 

2007-09-22 Pushchair

A Maclaren double stroller. It is pretty faded and a little beat up but somebody may want this so we will make it available to those who might. Pic soon.

 

2007-09-22 Printers

First a Dell scanner/printer that is brand new and comes with two extras ink cartridges. Previous owner says this was purchased bundled with a Windows Vista machine but seemed to not work at all with Vista. Hence he tossed it. We will give it a try as we try to remain Windows free, especially Vista free.

Dell Printer

A HP printer that according to the previous owner works fine, but his daughter did not like it anymore or something so they tossed it. Investigations to proceed.

HP Printer
 

2007-09-22 Pipe Clamp

A brand new pipe-based clamp. Not much to say about this apart from the fact that it may come in handy.

Pipe Clamp
 

2007-09-22 Keg of Bud Light

A shiny new sankey keg complete with small pump. It is half full of Bud light with a born on date of one year ago. We suspect that the Bud is no worse than when it went into the keg. Upon inspection, as shown in the pic, we find that the Bud light seems to have transmogrified into a select and peculiar Belgian style beer with piquant overtones. Look for this from Anheuser-Busch soon....

keg
 

2007-09-22 Chunk of Wood

A pretty chunky chunk of some fairly hard and heavy wood. We are not sure what this will be used for but it seems to have some promise so we will put it in stock.

Chunk of Wood
 

2007-09-22 Books

Yet another assortment of books. Ho hum.

Book, Rockwell
 

2007-09-22 Belt Sander

An old and quite industrial Porter Cable belt sander. When we plugged it in the results were shocking. This may be worth fixing for somebody though as some of the flooring guys tend to like the se super old and grungy tools.

Belt Sander
 

2007-09-20 Dell Pentium 4

A Dell Pentium 4 PC, 1.4Ghz, 2x 40G HD, 256M RAM, dual boot RedHat and WinME. Former owner was an (technical) employee of a very large computing machinary corporaton. He scrubbed /home /var and numerous other things from the linux install so that it booted but pretty much had nothing of interest on it. Quite slick actually, needlessly so as he really should have zeroed the drives. It seems that he really wanted the machine to boot after it left his possession. The Windows ME install has IE caches chock full of strange windows tutorials and porn. The porn varied from vanilla to kitchen implements (yes, seriously, see . Below we show a image from the cache of great importance to those (like ourselves) who have trouble copying and pasting in Windows ME.

HD data

We still have trouble copying and pasting in Windows anything but at least we have now seen the tutorial! No media on machine, no P2P, no digital pics. Sad.

 

2007-09-10 Toys

Numerous toys, mostly of the sit in or ride on variety. These were acquired due to the sudden influx of numerous remote relatives and their horrible offspring. First a pedal tow truck thingy. It is all metal and quite nice quality for a toy. We may keep this for a while.

kids' tow truck

A Peg Perego plastic tractor, this is nominally a high ticket item so once the horrible offspring have finished with it we will be tossing this on the list of craig.

plastic tow truck
 

2007-09-10 Cast Iron Pans

A friend requested some good cookware for targeted donation purposes. Well, these fit the bill, some vaguely nice cast iron. After he has cured them they will hopefully cook some nice dinners somewhere.

cast iron pans
 

2007-09-10 Bikes

Ross, shiny bike with super slim saddle and collapsable pannier. It is OK, sort of qualifies as hipster material, will be sold on the list of craig, we think. The folding basket is rather handy, we suspect that the targeted hipster purchasers of this machine will not appreciate such devices.

ross bike

A more junky Ross, with wiggly frame. Not sure if this has any value but we are prepared to test the waters with a quick cleanup etc.

ross bike

A junky Huffy Kids' bike. It was promptly snapped up by a crazy old woman with a full spectrum of grandchildren, a worthy home we feel.

huffy bike
 

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.

taps
 

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.

mac keyboards
 

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.

clamp
 

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.

cast iron bench ends
 

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.

hammer and plane
 

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.

saddle bag
 

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.

Radio Flyer
 
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