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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!):
Pair of bolt croppers, about 18 inches in length, OK quality, fully adjustable, nick in one jaw, slight rust. We used them on the way home to help clean up the next item. Pic of them cleaned up and oiled here:
One Pentium 2 400MHz Gateway. Seems damaged physically on the motherboard and is missing a cdrom.
One Pentium 3 Slot 1 style, missing memory, half the case and hard drive. Hmmmm, maybe I see a chimera coming on.
A new-in-box Coleman Mosquito Deleto 2100 device. Looks all special, its destiny is not yet decided but could end up joining some similar ones , Pic of ours here:
Interesting old frame saw that should provide entertainment for those collectors of old tools. It works, it was used to chop an old workbench in half for no particular reason, well maybe to facilitate extraction of the two vises bolted to it. Pic:
The loppers from Tuesday, pictured below, have been used heavily over two days of clearing trees. They earnt us two bottles of fine wine so far and promises of more to come. For being so useful they got a quick canadian rebuild and coat of high visibility paint on certain parts.
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