Most amazing dumpster dive ever!!!!

[jackinnj]

Originally posted by rdf
Radio's just such a stange industry. You work with this stuff for years and the percieved value goes to zero.

I have yet seen a Tektronix scope in our town dump. However, I have seen scopes used by the US DOD (7900's and 7100's) for a minute fraction of their original price on EBay.

A couple weeks ago my youngest son picked up a Kitchen Aid Mixer at the Millburn Town Dump -- the gears have to be "repacked" but a $300 mixer for nothing????

[dfdye]

WooHoo! More goodies in the trash! Some old equipment was getting thrown out, and though most of it was trash, I was able to pull several high quality linear power supplies! The two on the right are +5V@2A and +/-15V@400mA, the top left is 28V@4A, and the bottom left is 5V@3A. Gotta love it!

[demogorgon]

found a lot of sweet stuff on the heap in my time as well, to nemption a few:
Eltek 20A 48V SMPS in aluminum rack box.
HP procurve 4000m switch with 40 ports, uppgradable to 80.
asus mini pc with celly 1700\512mb ram\dvd burner++
3 24 ports 3com\allied telesyn switches
"digital" 4*pentium pro server with 1 gigg of ram, monster redundant psu's, and the motherload of 7 18.2gb scsi disks, 15k rpm.
and offcource tonns, and tonns of damaged\defect electronics i ripp the guts out of.

[tade]

I found five VOTT horn drivers with multicell horns in a dumpster at my school. Also a bogen mono power amp.

[Zero Cool]

Originally posted by tade
I found five VOTT horn drivers with multicell horns in a dumpster at my school. Also a bogen mono power amp.

Some of those VOTT horns are worth a fortune! I sold a pair to a guy in Tiawan for $900 and they were just the horns, no throat adapters or drivers!


Zc

[tade]

wow, i am looking to sell them actually. i sure hope to find a buyer like you have!

[planet10]

I'm writing this on my latest dumpster dive find. The most recent version of Apple's G3 PowerBook (400 MHz/320 MB RAM). I guess it was tossed because a new battery was worth more than the resale value... i had a spare battery from my older PB & i swapped a bag of cookies for an AC power adaptor & a wireless PC Card, installed Panther and i have a very usable machine to use for road trips & for serving lossless audio.

dave

[imix500]

Dave, Sounds a Pismo or Pismo Firewire if it's got two firewire ports and bronze keys, great little notebooks.

[planet10]

Originally posted by imix500
Dave, Sounds a Pismo or Pismo Firewire if it's got two firewire ports and bronze keys, great little notebooks.

It's a Pismo (my other PB is a Lombard but it has a broken EN port and won't run X). I'm very pleased with it and my wife uses the old one with wireless for dealing with a couple OS 9 aps

dave

[jleaman]

Originally posted by planet10


It's a Pismo (my other PB is a Lombard but it has a broken EN port and won't run X). I'm very pleased with it and my wife uses the old one with wireless for dealing with a couple OS 9 aps

dave

Ahhh it's so nice to sit here on a dual core intel MacBook Pro

Hows the Pismo hanging in there ?

Broken en port. Should i fix this one too ? No one around to step on that ones screen either

latest dumpster Dive. Well it was not a dive, BUT i did go into a second hand shop last year and pay 20$ us for my fluke meter that works 100% now after cleaning the carbon display pad