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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.
The mongoose that was stripped of wheels, pedals and saddle has been resurrected. The scumbag thief also cut the brake cables in order to get the wheels off. We ended up finding bits from several partial bikes in the scrap metal and assembling it all. Now it is better than before but that is in no way a silver lining on the cloud that scumbag bike thieves cast.
This rocky mountain bike was found a day or so ago, stripped amongst the scrap metal. Possibly a scumbag bike thief had been at it and the previous owners treated that as a reason for discard? Today we managed to find all the requisite parts to make it whole again to a standard suitable for sale on the list of craig or some such. Maybe the previous owner will buy it back? Also available to avid readers of this page of course, at a deep discount. It is now a pretty fancy bike but only suitable for hominids under about 5 ft 8 in height. Having small feet helps also, about the size of those of the foot model in shot are fine.
An Evenflow toddler seat in perfect condition, has barely (if ever) been used. Not nearly as desirable as equivalent Britax etc but usable nevertheless.
As if by Murphy's law, just days after we bought some hardwood to rebuild a park bench, we find some nice mahogany. It is not quite enough to finish an entire bench but will be useful for something else. Custom whiteboard frame? Hmmmmm....
A Peg Perego baby seat with two matching snap-in bases (not shown in pics) and snap-and-go chassis thingy. For those in the know Peg Perego is pretty good stuff, less of the whole seat detaching and baby plus seat flying out of car business. I guess a nearby somebody's offspring just crossed a height/weight threshold and they tossed their entire infant car safety setup. All in very good shape and will appear on the list of craig soon. Monica?
A gentleman new to the neighbourhood had obviously decided to upgrade his entire home computing infrastructure and hence was pitching his old one. Emachines 2.2Ghz athlon with 512M ram and a nice 160G HD. Also flat screen packed for transit in original box and all paperwork etc, including Geek Squad receipts. At the last minute, when he saw us coveting his hardware, he asked us to take the HD out for him. Sensible fellow. I have a HD the same as that with broken controller board so I would have quite liked that but there you go. Machine will probably be donated to a needy family at some point. Teenage son needs the learning, skills, responsibility of setting it up for younger sister, who needs a faster machine, all to benefit of parents, who need demanding offsprings' demands quieted. All of them need something.
A nice Stanley tool chest. It has super monster bearing drawers, holes drilled in the top and couple of dings but all in all is in fine functional shape. Colour is pretty nasty but there you go. This may end up used, traded or sold, not sure which yet. Put in your offers....
A Dell laptop missing everything. The last one of these that we had went well on ebay so I think this one will follow it. Missing memory, HD, optical drive etc etc. Has screen, keyboard, motherboard, power supply and most of case.
Some random books off some various bestseller lists, acquired for a youngish female relative to get through. Now she has finished HP7 she has cycles to spare......
A rather nice mountain bike. Simple but effective. The thing had a super bent front wheel so we grabbed a wheel off some crappo walmart special bike and a also the seat was better replaced with one from stock. Now, a nice machine, posibly destined introduction to its new owners via the list of craig.
Also found some fancy 24 inch wheels from on super high end mongoose kids mountain bike. The bike itself had a really nice frame and all sorts of cool stuff but was a little messed up and had bits missing. Never fear, the wheels will live to fight another day.
Also scavenged off the mongoose the brakes for sombody who needs brakes such as these for a repair job. Fine and dandy.
Ikea again and potentially not a good item to find used but it is in near perfect condition (one handle loose) and the liner is of course washable. Cool.
The old desk chair was getting a bit ratty and pieces would sort of swivel off at random times so this is a welcome addition to the household, even though it is Ikea. It is more comfy and more functional than previous chair and more or less brand new except for a few cat hairs or something.
A folding garden chair of no great notability except for the fact that is is pretty comfy.
Ikea bookshelves in perfect condition. This event is fairly astounding as these things tend to fall apart when you move house or even under normal use. They must not have been ever really used. Will be plonked in some bedroom to hold a cache of books, can never have too many bookshelves. Note of course the key advantages of picking other people's Ikea stuff out of their garbage are that we do not have to go near the nightmare swarm of people that perpetually envelope every Ikea and we do not have to do any self-assembly. Win, win, and because it is free, win again. This was found with the chair while we wsere on foot so it was most convenient to put the shelves on the chair and wheel the both home.
A somewhat monstrous stainless BBQ with side hob and cabinet and stuff. It has a few broken spot welds that we can easily re-weld, then we will convert it to charcoal from gas and proceed to press it into service. Replacement of the junky steels nuts and bolts will also occur, stainless all round now. This should last a while when finished. No real apparent reason for discard.
This is a very early calphalon I think, it has a bowed base so will be returned for a new one.
A set of rollers for when you have a bike but don't actually want to go anywhere with it. Near perfect condition, super spiffy all round. We have no use at all for this, off to Craigslist.
Update: Exchanged for liquid financial instruments via the list of craig.
A BMX bike in good shape, needed a flat fix on rear wheel and all ready to go. Available or used for distant family offspring.
Update: As expected it turns out to be coveted by some distant family offspring. Hence saved for such.
A graco duo glider double pushchair. All the stuff seems to be present, one or two little things on it are a bit ratty but otherwise seems OK.
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