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A stupid ersatz slot machine that is very annoying. This may be donated to a household we wish to annoy.
While we are not really on the subject here is Calphalon 4 quart sauce pan that we picked up a while ago. Somebody had burnt some food on the bottom, so we cleaned it off and Bob's your uncle, a rather nice addition to the kitchen.
The latest in what seems to be a veritable tsunami of Mac junk, a 233MHz G3 mac tower that had been upgraded to 466MHz G4 with 768M RAM and a 60G HD plus burner. These upgrade parts are fascinating to play with for about 10 minutes, then we get rid of them to rabid mac-heads.
One seemingly good-order iMac 400MHz. We currently have two of exactly this model, one running OS X and one running Ubuntu PPC, so will not be hanging on to this. Missing all the bottom of the case. We got it working but not worth selling like this, will part it out. Pic shows it with the nice USB optical mouse we got also. Keyboard did not come with.
One Pentium 3 800Mhz PC, to be investigated more closely at a later date.
A racing style bike made by panasonic. Does not turn off when I use my tv-b-gone on it, unlike their TVs. Pic of it before chain oiling etc:
One juvenile scooter. A friend is building some form of monster scooter and will get this for the parts.
One mac clone with Sonnet 400Mhz upgrade card, SCSI CD burner and fast SCSI HD, boots OK into OS 9 but what use is that? I have run OS X on crappier macs than this but do not intend to do that on this one. Parts or some other disposal. Memory on top came from even crappier genuine mac that was nearby.
Motor turns out to have burnt winding. Severe bummer that one, but I guess I will keep looking. It is alleged to be fixable but I bet for more than I will pay.
One Gateway Slot 1 Pentium 3 500MHz with no HD and no memory. Off to the cybercafe with that one.
One roll of very good duct tape just sitting there in the middle of the street. Crazy.
One PowerMac G3 P.O.S. Its two virtues are that it might be entertaining to install linux on this thing and that these things seem to go on ebay for 100 USD or more. We shall see.
One Dell Pentium 2 450MHz PC with not much on the HD. Now has been refreshed and turned around to become a surfing machine for somebody in need.
One largish 3-phase motor, I think about 2-3hp, shown next to a wine bottle for scale . I think it has bad bearing but not sure yet. This is of course is the ideal starting point for a single to three phase converter and something I have been seeking for the past short while, since I found that 3-phase drill press in fact. Seek and ye shall find!
Update: One burnt field means this is scrap. The search continues.
Two Pentium 2 machines. One a Compaq P.O.S 400MHz PC with Firewire, the other a Dell 300 MHz. Both yielded immensely entertaining data examination of the HDs. One guy used Napster then Kazaa for his family media needs but Limewire for his porn needs. Very interesting, some of the porn filenames were veritable keyword aggregators.
Second guy had a few hundred mp3s and some wierd porn images hidden in strange cache-like places. Seemed to be using a lot of ftp sites with such software as CuteFTP. Took a copy of all this and archived. Also, the lady of the household was in the habit of replying to spammers and (seperatly) committing very sensitive financial and identity related infomation to email. When she went into hospital to expunge their new offspring from her body she required that she be able to use her laptop with headphones to be able to watch DVDs and listen to music during labor. Classy.
Talking point: If I pull mp3s off a discarded hard drive and save them is it legal? First sale doctrine ? I certainly extract and re-use Windows license keys in the spirit of this principle.
The Compaq is now part of a cyber cafe and the Dell is reconditioned and ready for delivery to somebody who needs it.
One galvanized rubbish bin. Actually there were three but I only took one as I have a few already. How strange is it to find an almost new rubbish bin in the rubbish, rather than rubbish in the rubbish bin? Pic of it on the lawn (currently the part of our property that most needs a bin):
One 8G HD and a bunch of quite good video cards. Who knows what I will find on the HD and where the videos cards will end up?
Managed to save the contents of a garage before they went into a dumpster. First items, a selection of vise grips and clamps useful for welding:
These also came with lots of welding rod and some power cords and stuff. Next item, two sheet metal brakes, one 3 foot or so and the other 6 inch. Quality is not fabulous but will do just fine for things like making stainless steels fuel tanks and such. Longer one is shown here with table scroll saw that was also in need of a home. Scroll saw may find its way to ebay or some other good home. I have very little use for one of those.
Two craftsman sanders, crappy-ish but should work OK when I need such sanders. One is belt sander and the other is a larger random orbital type.
Yet more tree branch loppers also, these ones very big and chunky but taiwanese iffy quality. These may be traded for a nice bottle of wine. No pic for now.
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).
A classic 3-speed bike in OK shape. Has been pressed into service as student transport to and from the railway station.
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
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Random monitor, to be exported to a needy househol with brrod eager for surfing. Nuff said.
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.
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.
Three plumb bobs. Seemingly useless you may cry but not if you have a mildly insane neighbour who collects them.
An assortment of thing to hit and things to hit with. What seems to be a slate splitting hammer and some other stuff. Again, only a couple of items of usee to me here but I know people who collect such things.
One portable drinking chair with spaces for two beers. One pop rivet on the back had given out but is already fixed and ready for service. Indoor usage pictured below:
A seemingly complete e-machine 500MHz Pentium 3 that does not appear to boot. One of the very few old machines I have found that really will not boot. No worries, the memory is useful, and the hard drive was a fruitful source of amusement.
Previous owner had a small collection of mp3s seemingly acquired from semi-legal download sites. The following is telling:
wold0126<54>My Music% find . -type f | grep mp3 | sort | tail ./Unknown/Untitled - 02-17-03/13 - Track 13.mp3 ./Unknown/Untitled - 08-01-02/01 - Track 1.mp3 ./Unknown/Untitled - 08-01-02/02 - Track 2.mp3 ./Unknown/Untitled - 08-01-02/03 - Track 3.mp3 ./Unknown/Untitled - 08-01-02/04 - Track 4.mp3 ./Unknown/Untitled - 08-01-02/06 - Track 6.mp3 ./Unknown/Untitled - 08-01-02/07 - Track 7.mp3 ./Unknown/Untitled - 08-09-02/13 - Data Track.mp3 ./Unknown/Untitled - 10-14-02/02 - Data Track.mp3 ./Unknown/Untitled - 10-14-02 (1)/05 - Track 5.mp3
They are even missing their ID3 tags so I would have to listen to all that stuff to see what is there. The few I have so far got through were the likes of Tatu and Christina Agui-whatsit . Not promising. The word docs had some nice stuff in them and had more useful names. Former owner also seems to have had a proclivity for online gaming and dating services.
I guess this counts. Relative of a friend of a friend picked up a Rockwell Delta drill press that was being chucked. It found its way to me. It is 3-phase, hence some fiddling will have to take place on the power supply front but seem very nice. Big, heavy, old, see for yourself:
Amusingly somebody had jacked a regular 110V household plug on the end of the cord in some (presumably) vain attempt to use it.
For those with curious nature here is an updated picture on the Emglo Compressor. It was dismantled and had a paint job with POR-15 on the tanks and some general attention. The pressure switch needed cleaning to make it function correctly. It now seems to work fine.
Flatbed trolley. A little rusty, works fine, suitable for large welders, gearboxes etc. I may give it a coat of POR and touch up some joints with the welder (not necc in that order) but in the meantime here it is after having the wheel bearings greased:
Garden seat with cast iron ends and wood slats for the seat and back. To get it into Heidi for transport home we broke off all the wood slats and cropped off all the bolts. Nice. Plan for this might be galvanize the cast iron ends and put new teak slats on with stainless hardware. Rubber feet will make it the indoor/outdoor bench. Pic of the ends resting in the garden (not my pic!):
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