What stuff have you salvaged

Okedokey

Okedokey

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What stuff have you salvaged?

It always surprises me what people will throw out.

Look what I got from the 'garbage' section of my building today! All tested all working.

Amazing.

Gigabyte 585W PSU (estimated value $20)
LG lightscribe DVD drive (estimated value $5)
4 x Kingston 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory Model KVR800D2N6/2G (still selling on Newegg for $30 each - second hand total estimated value $60)
Q9400 Quad core CPU (estimated value $50)
Synology DS710+ (still selling for $360 refurbished - without HDD)
PNY VCQFX570-PCIE-PB Quadro FX 570 Professional Graphic Card ($80 second hand on amazon)

That's $575 picked up from the garbage in 5 minutes.

LOL

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Do you know the way to ebay? LOL

The only thing I salvaged I guess was a old Palm pilot. It had no battery so I wired up a power adapter to it. Never used it for anything. My dad found a family radio (FRS) on the ground camping and it's battery was damaged. I wired up a power adapter to it and the radio sports NOAA weather radio with alert. So it acts as a poor mans weather radio with alert.
 
Yeah, they'll go on ebay.

Ill keep the Synology. You sound like me, forever 'wiring up stuff' in fact this Synology didn't come with a power cable, but I wired up a DIN connector to a 6A laptop PSU and heat shrunk it. Works like a charm. Currently installing the DMS.

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Okedokey said:
Yeah, they'll go on ebay.

Ill keep the Synology. You sound like me, forever 'wiring up stuff' in fact this Synology didn't come with a power cable, but I wired up a DIN connector to a 6A laptop PSU and heat shrunk it. Works like a charm. Currently installing the DMS.

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You'll love the Synology, loving mine.
 
Me personally, nothing... But a friend I know lives near a gamestop. Hes gotten controllers, brand new xbox360s, xbox ones, Ps4s, Ps3s, Basically anything that comes in from the manufacturer or wherever it comes from, if it has a scratch on it, it ends up in the dumpster. No they don't usually have the cables, but hey get em off amazon for a few bucks and your all set.
 
I personally don't go dumpster diving but I've still salvaged a few things. Many years ago, my wife went to empty the trash in the dumpster of our apartment and found a B&W TV sitting on the ground next to the dumpster so she brought it to me. I determined that the on/off switch integrated into the volume control had failed so just drilled a hole in the case and mounted a toggle switch and moved the wires from the volume control to the new switch. The TV worked great after that. We were newly married and poor, didn't have a TV at the time. We used that B&W TV for about 4 years until we could afford to buy a new color TV.

Another time my wife brought home a boom box that someone at work had given her because it stopped working. I found that the AC power cord had broken at the plug so the thing had run until the battery died even though they had it plugged in. I simply cut the end off the power cord and wired up a new plug. The boom box worked great.

Another time a buddy of mine gave me a UPS because it stopped working. I removed the 12V battery and connected it to my car battery charger. The car charger had more amperage so was able to charge the battery whereas the internal charger could not. After that the UPS worked fine. My buddy had bought a brand new UPS that he didn't like as much as the one I fixed so he swapped me the brand new UPS for it so I ended up with a brand new UPS for free.

When I was in high school, my sister gave me a stereo phonograph because one channel was out. I found that one of the wires on the needle cartridge had come loose. Reconnected it and had my first stereo.
 
Driving to the store the other day on trash day found and took a gas chain saw in the trash. Had it working 20 minutes later.
 
The architectural drafting students at NJIT need to buy high end Precision desktops for CAD and design. When they're done with them, you find some nice towers and monitors just sitting by the dumpster ripe for the taking.
 
ive found computers in the past. Maybe 6 or 7 yrs ago i got a tower. Made out of plexiglass. I wish i had pictures of it. salvaged the video card, memory, power supply and two barracuda hd's. funny they didn't wipe personal information on them. wasn't a problem. i did a military wipe and gave them out as needed. also i drive around sometime. 4 or 5 weeks ago i was looking for scrap wood. find 2x4's, plywood, 1x2, 1x3 etc. they don't want them anymore.

about a month ago my chest freezer went bad. started taking it out to the trash. before i got it to the street someone took it. scrap copper and metal. some do this for a living i think.
 
tremmor said:
about a month ago my chest freezer went bad. started taking it out to the trash. before i got it to the street someone took it. scrap copper and metal. some do this for a living i think.
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I live up north mich middle of nowhere really, and nothing stands at the road more than a day. And we have 3 cars go by a day if we are lucky. Town is so small word spreads fast. Bikes, Tvs, broken dishwasher, you name it gone within hours...
 
I posted a basketball hoop for free on CL last summer. It was gone the next morning, and I had about 10 people text me wanting it.
 
I had 4 old tower computers that ran XP that I didn't want/need anymore. They weren't really worth anything so listed them on CL for free. Within hours had about 30 people contact me. The 1st 4 people to show up at my house got them. Did the same with a trampoline a few years back, within 2 hrs someone was at my house disassembling the trampoline to take it.

Around my house, if you put something on the curb with a sign saying "Free" no one will touch it. Change the sign to read "For Sale $10" and someone will steal it!
 
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