Most amazing dumpster dive ever!!!!

[jackinnj]

Once I was flying to the Midwest from NJ and we stopped in an airport with inexpensive av-gas in the middle of Pennsylvania -- whenever I spy a dumpster I just have to get a look -- we found a whole bunch of Collins/Rockwell/Bendix av communications stuff in there -- none of it worked but did fetch a nice price on EBay.

[mpmarino]

This is a pretty good one IMHO, and I can't help but jump up and down bragging

Crunchville dump......

The pre worked fine after replacing the power cord. The amp is fine after a small zero dollar repair and power cord replacement.

(someone saw it fit to chomp the cords off prior to dumping...duh)

[speaker]

Originally posted by mpmarino


(someone saw it fit to chomp the cords off prior to dumping...duh)

That copper is worth money you know.......

I barely know where to start on what I've snagged from our town dump. It has a swap area and I've lost count on the number of speakers, amplifiers, receivers, cd players, ham radio gear, and so on that I've dragged home. On top of that clean outs from a TV repair shop and two companies that manufactured RF gear. Very little vacuum tube stuff, a couple Bogen PA amps & tube testers, but gear from nearly every hifi manufacturer. From the electronics outfits, gauges, transformers, spools of wire, chassis, racks, capacitors, boxes of resistors, stainless hardware, aluminum & composite parts (rod & sheet stock), and the list goes on & on & on. For a couple years, comical. Go with a car load to throw away make several trips back & return with a full car loads. Some I've sold, much I've given to friends of like mind in need of project fodder. (I won't even talk about the great furniture from Knoll, Herman-Miller, etc. I've gotten there.)

[mpmarino]

Yes Mr. Speaker....

It's the same here. I often tell people that my bringing trash to the transfer station is just a cover....

[speaker]

Originally posted by mpmarino


I often tell people that my bringing trash to the transfer station is just a cover....

My wife called me out on that using almost the same exact verbiage!

[john blackburn]

Since England became "green" you are breaking the law if you remove anything from a dump.

It's a strange world when you can be fined for recycling something from the recycling centre, but most likely left alone if you fly tip it.

John

[jackinnj]

Just picked up a Technics receiver at the ol' Millburn town dump.

A while back I need a 3.5" floppy drive -- now that Compusa is out of biz the town dump is where I go for parts like this.

[jackinnj]

This came out of a somewhat crushed receiver -- it should do 30-0-30 VAC.

[Stuart Easson]

Not sure if it exists everywhere, but I regularly, as in every two weeks or so collect a mostly functional receiver or amp from freecycle.

Perhaps I'm lucky, but here's yesterdays 'find':

Subject: [SantaCruzCountyFreecycle] OFFER: Denon Receiver - B'forte
Model DRA-635R. Works well although one channel needs repair. Good for someone who knows how to tinker w electronics.

Got a Sony with a flaky volume control the week before. I ignore the every other one listed as working perfectly...I figure there's someone out there that can use them...

Dumpster diving is fun and all, but if you can get the same result without the dumpster or the diving...

Stuart

[rdf]

Since we're swapping illnesses, we recently did another house cleaning at work. I just couldn't toss these out. On the left three or four dozen 10K ohm linear conductive plastic faders w/ audio taper, mostly Penny & Giles. On the right, two transformers with a 12b4A for scale. The smaller is from a Bell/Nortel ring supply; Teflon leads, 18-0-18 @ 5.5 amp per side, telephone service rating. On the right, same voltage but unknown current from an 50 watt FM exctier. I'm guessing higher than 5.5 amps.