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2004-08-25 Fuel

Was a long way from home and hence out of free fuel, was forced to actually buy fuel! The horror. Put in 10 gallons only. Went to pay and noticed that the fuel stop had a food area, almost a cafe. I asked about their deep fryer oil and they showed me a 55 gallon drum of the best looking oil I have ever seen. It was not luck that I had three 5 gallon buckets with me.

They did not seem to understand that it was against their interest to give me that oil. Oh well.

 

2004-08-24 Puter Dumpster

A realtor type office seemed to have emptied itself, including lots of computing related items, into a dumpster. We made off with numerous items, inclucing but not limited to.

One Gateway Pentium 2 266MHz with no memory but a hard drive full of realtor stuff. Most entertaining. No porn though.

One Gateway Pentium 2 233Mhz yet to be investigated.

One unidentified Athlon type thing with lots of memery but no HD. DVD rom and CD-R still there all happy.

One Belkin KVM switch, two TV capture cards and assorted 168 pin memory.

Several Windows and Office install CDs. Great, just what we need.

Pair of ethernet crimpers and lots of cable ready to be crimped. These are probably the most useful thing in the dumpster even if they did draw blood. Pic:

ethernet crimpers

Linksys wireless print server adaptor, not the sort of thing we would use but you never know we might find a use for it. More likely a customer for it. Pic:

wireless thingy

Pair of pruning loppers. They seem to fully functional. They are not computer related but they sneaked in at the end here anyway.

 

2004-08-22 Fuel

Ten gallons of oil from a well known, if slightly touristy, bar. I will never be eating there as their oil was pretty brown and burnt. Slackers. Oil filtered quickly though and is all ready to go.

 

2004-08-10 Compaq Presario

What a grandiose name for such a piece of junk, one crappy Compaq Presario type thing with a ~350MHz Celeron, Windows 98, 8G HD and some weird and barely useful amount of memory. It has a CD writer which could always come in handy. More to the point it had Kazaa Lite installed with an extensive collection of "media", for want of a better word. In particular 1030 MP3s from such luminaries as:

     49 Metallica
     45 Aerosmith
     23 U2
     22 Rolling Stones
     22 Kid Rock
     17 Led Zepplin
     16 Rage Against The Machine
     15 Linkin Park
     15 Elvis Presley
     13 Red Hot Chili Peppers
     12 Dave Matthews Band
     11 Van Halen
     11 Steve Miller
     11 Offspring
     11 Guns N' Roses
     11 Bush
     11 Audioslave

Also there were some Seinfeld episodes and the obligatory sprinkling of porn. I bet if the owner is reading this he is really hoping I do not reveal his name and address further down this page. Oh yes and I now have a bunch of his passwords and his horrible homework assignments written in Word. Blech.

 

2004-08-07 Shredder

Yet another shredder, this one had a slight jam behind the power switch that the paper trips on the way in. Cleared with a pair of needle nose pliers (not even any dismantling with this one) and all ready for its new home. This one is not cross cut but goes very fast. Pic:

shredder
 

2004-08-07 Outdoor Chairs

Nice pair of folding aluminium outdoor chairs with drinks trays on the side. They look little used, and in fact the fabric is not faded, just dusty. I am sure they will be employed at some riotous event in the woods someplace. Pic of one of them:

chairs
 

2004-08-07 Fresnel Lens

One large canal boat lamp that has a steel (as opposed to brass) body. It had a hack job electric conversion and body was very rusted hence I think it is not worth saving but the nice fresnel lens has cleaned up nicely. This may have to form some type of post-industrial artsy table lamp, to go with our galvanized pipe coffee table. Pic of it mostly cleaned:

fresnel lens
 

2004-08-06 Veg Oil

Got 5 gallons of oil from the butcher that was nice and clear, filters well. Bought meat for the BBQ, they gave me the fuel for the truck, what a deal. Pic of the cardboard wrapper from the oil bottle for reference purposes.

oil wrapper
 

2004-08-06 Chainsaw

Long hiatus there while I was off and about. Back to business with a small Craftsman 358 chainsaw that had a broken pull cord. Cord is now fixed and some attempts will be made to run the thing. Not a very useful thing though, too small, disposable chainsaw if you will as I am sure that one good session cutting oak would kill it off.

chainsaw
 

2004-07-17 Fuel

Found a restaurant with a small dumpster full of waste oil. Was maybe 6 feet by 2.5 feet and had a foot of oil in it. I make that about 400 litres, or around 100 gallons of fuel. I got 20 gallons first time hence have lots to look forward to. Quality was good, nice and thin and clear.

 

2004-07-15 Mac Hardware

Found a pile of 5 old Mac laptops and a Newton, but decided not to take them as they were so super old and useless.

 

2004-07-15 Fuel

10 more gallons of oil from the drum I found earlier. There are maybe 5-10 more in there but it is getting more murky as I get further down.

 

2004-07-14 Craftsman Table Saw

One Craftsman table saw. It is very heavy and has pretty high speed. It was missing the belt when we picked it up but the temporary use of a genuine mercedes alternator belt demonstrated the functionality of the unit. Missing a fence unfortunately and the legs need tightening up. Pic of it showing evidence of testing around

table saw

As I did not until now have a table saw this one gets to find a home in the basement, at least until a better free one comes along.

 

2004-07-13 Veg Oil

Lastly I took some buckets to that drum of cooking oil and got 10 gallons. Half is now filtered and ready to go, the rest soon to follow. Will get the remaining 15 gallons tomorrow. Need more plastic buckets......

 

2004-07-13 Shredder

Well, got another shredder today, must be about the fourth this year. It is not a cross cut version and is missing its basket and lower flap but has a credit card slot. It is an Aurora AS1002MSB. When I first tested it I got nothing but I dismantled it and removed some stuck plastic and paper crud and it works fine now in forward and reverse. Pic below of it tastfully poised on my next (but not yet fully assembled) cork trivet:

shredder
 

2004-07-13 Scanner Thingy

Some kind of PS2 scanning pen inventory dongle device, maybe from a store. There was a whole pile of Pitney Bowes kit nearby but it had been half stripped. Pic below:

scanner dongle
 

2004-07-13 Mercedes Educational AV

Weirder still is the Mercedes microfilm and audio educational device plus many cassettes for it. To be explored later on, watch this space.

 

2004-07-13 Mac Upgrades

Also there was what I think was a Mac Clone from some years ago. HDs were all present and SCSI-2, I left them being impatient. I took what I think is the CPU board in case it is sellable, pic below.

cpu
 

2004-07-13 Compaq

A Compaq Pentium 3 mostly stripped. I took the 10/100 ethernet card and the HD. HD is 6.4G Western Digital 26400 and functions fine, has a total of 20366 files on it. Looks like a functioning WinNT install with FAT32 file system. Former owner was a Morpheus user, but I cannot see much in the way of downloaded crud. Pretty tame HD really this, some files pertaining to appliances and household stuff.

 

2004-07-12 Fuel

Hmmm, have located a 55 gallon drum with old cooking oil in it. Obviously I have to leave the drum and take the oil, hence I need to go back with several buckets. May also have to accost the owners of the drum, but only after I have this batch from it. It seems to have about 25 gallons in it and quite clear looking.

 
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