2004-10-15 Puter Parts

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?

2004-10-02 Tools and stuff

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.

2004-09-26 Trap

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).

2004-09-26 Bike

A classic 3-speed bike in OK shape. Has been pressed into service as student transport to and from the railway station.

2004-09-25 Micron P3

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

2004-09-25 Hi-fi

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.

Dyna Stereo Pre-amp in good condition all round. Again one just went on ebay for 200 or so, hence this one may have to follow it.

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.

2004-09-25 Dell P3

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).

2004-09-25 Cordless Drill

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.

2004-09-24 Wooden Chest

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.

2004-09-24 Monitor

Random monitor, to be exported to a needy househol with brrod eager for surfing. Nuff said.