Some recent craigslist finds

Hi all! Here are a few recent blessings from the craigslist or letgo free sections. Each of the three was great in its own way and I'd recommend pursuing them if opportunity provides. For various reasons, mostly weather related, none of them could be parted out or fixed at a reasonable price. So here's some disassembly!

EcoFlex SC750 Floor Scrubber

If at all possible I highly recommend getting this fixed before scrapping. Even reconditioned they sell for $2000+. This one was out in the rain and Las Vegas sun for some time before I picked it up. It has a good amount of cast aluminum, around 100lbs, 75lbs+ in 4 motors (only three of the four in the picture), and 367lbs of batteries along with some super burly copper wire along with more normal copper wire in good quantity. When totally stripped there was about 150lbs of tin remaining, about 50% sturdy plastic by weight.


Part of the haul:


The not too impressive board



The batteries:


This is an older alignment machine I picked up from a Porsche dealership. It has a monitor, older HP tower, another smaller computer inside and four cast aluminum arms, each with a set of boards and wires inside. It again had been out in the elements a minute. I kept the steel table because it is super burly and burly tables on wheels are always welcome. Total cast aluminum for this was around 50lbs.



Each of the four arms contains the following:



The internal machine had these boards:

Legacy tanning bed

This weighed about 250lbs even after stripping. And it was only a half-size bed. 20+ little motors and lots of wire.

Originally Posted by JJinLV

Legacy tanning bed

This weighed about 250lbs even after stripping. And it was only a half-size bed. 20+ little motors and lots of wire.

If that bed could talk! Its has seen a lot!

Originally Posted by hobo finds

If that bed could talk! Its has seen a lot!

Lol! So long as it doesn't talk too loud. I need my sleep.

Nice score on that tanning bed

Cool finds! Thanks for sharing JJ!

Got the table, fountain and bread warmer (under my tools) today. This one isn't all that neat (to me at least as a restaurant veteran) but was glad to have it today cause I need the scratch! And second pop fountain in two days. Don't have the weight yet because finished too late to go to the yard but it feels about three hundred pounds of stainless plus it was plumbed in so about 5-6 pounds of copper and about the same for several brass fittings. Cost me about $9 for a push-on cap for the pipe where it came out and a sawzall blade (had to chop the feet to fit out the door, appears to have been assembled and soldered in situ many years ago). For scale it's about 29"/74cm deep and 35"/89cm tall. After chopping the feet just lifted one end at a time up onto my furniture dolly lengthwise and pushed the whole table out on four wheels. Didn't think I was gonna get this one. They responded about 12hrs after I responded to their ad!

Originally Posted by JJinLV

Got the table, fountain and bread warmer (under my tools) today. This one isn't all that neat (to me at least as a restaurant veteran) but was glad to have it today cause I need the scratch! And second pop fountain in two days. Don't have the weight yet because finished too late to go to the yard but it feels about three hundred pounds of stainless plus it was plumbed in so about 5-6 pounds of copper and about the same for several brass fittings. Cost me about $9 for a push-on cap for the pipe where it came out and a sawzall blade (had to chop the feet to fit out the door, appears to have been assembled and soldered in situ many years ago). For scale it's about 29"/74cm deep and 35"/89cm tall. After chopping the feet just lifted one end at a time up onto my furniture dolly lengthwise and pushed the whole table out on four wheels. Didn't think I was gonna get this one. They responded about 12hrs after I responded to their ad!

So this ad has turned into my best ever haul. Got called back a few times to disassemble or haul away other items and do some demo, repairs and general heavy lifting as these folks open up a new restaurant. All told I spent close to a solid week doing labor, $14 to haul a load of debris to the dump and about $50 for various parts and labor. In return have gotten about $150 in stainless scrap, $50 in romex, $100 in no1 and no2 copper, maybe $100 or so in combined tin and aluminum, large and small commercial CO2 tanks (large one sold for $200), some various resellable demo product (glass blocks, etc) that sold for around $100, and the following which I'm just now starting to list for sale: three commerical stainless one compartment sinks, three 70" refrigerated curved glass sushi display cases, 90" stainless refrigerated pizza prep table, a 36" commercial gas grill, a 48" refrigerated pastry display case and more. And last night after helping unload a full semi load of restaurant tables, booths, kitchenware and chairs brought the freezer and refrigerated table in the pic.



From the scrap alone and what I've already sold have already done pretty well (by my standards lol) for a week's work. All the equipment is working so am gonna do shockingly well.

Nice stuff! funny story about the lawyer accepting that stuff as payment.