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It was spring cleaning this week a few towns away.
Picked up
4 microwaves
1 microwave/oven combo
7 lawn mowers (2 electric 1 toro)
4 nice size satellite dishes
Lots of wire
1 DVD player
4 sets of ski poles
Stainless steel light poles, blenders, a toaster, a box of aluminum water bottles, and a lot of other random things.
Sorry can't post pics yet
Cool!! I'm looking forward to more "curb alerts" this spring as well, especially as I clear my plate of other commitments...
that's a sweet haul those electric mowers may not be the most popular but love the parts prices for resale and love curbco and curb alerts on clist and with the recent update on the app of which I full cant say cause of advertising that city.... does it makes it so much faster and easier to snag stuff up
Don't scrap the ski poles if they are in decent shape! They will sell on CL and don't take up much space.
I have been going to cleanup days the last 2 weekends. Have filled my truck and enclosed trailer everytime. Havnt had much luck on precious metals. Pull about $100 each time at least it's something but it's alot of fun.
I really haven't done much organized curbside shopping in my bedroom burg (used to go down to the parks once a week in the summer and pick out the Al cans out of the trash cans and find other things such as ditched folding camp chairs and such but the city now has recycling cans as well next to the regular trash) but I think I will this warm season before work a day or so a week I will.
Sunday was such a beauty of a day so I went out yesterday am at first light for about 45 minutes. Not a lot of stuff; a vacuum, 100 feet of wrecked extension cords, some light tubes that I though were Al but ended up being steel, and the find of the day, a E200 Razor motorized scooter. I figure that the extension cords paid for my gas, anything else is profit. It seems that the E200 motors and sprockets go well on ebay. I think I'll part out that, the wheels, and cables and offer those as a combo package and scrap the rest of it.
Last night I walked over to a construction dumpster about a 100 meters from the house (this one had been left since the last twin home on that side of the street was built so a bunch of trash has ended up in it but now other stuff is showing up as well because they're building another twinny there) and found this discarded cement float. The handle is Al but the head maybe be magnesium (at least they were back a couple of summers I worked road construction way back in the day). Still knocking dried mud off of the piece.
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Well, its off to the 9 to 5 'er...
Overflow season. I pick up scrap faster than I can strip it. I haven't done a regular route in two weeks because my space is full. One CL ad was a week of work.
Charge up that scooter see if it works!
Charn- sort of like trapping season. The critters wait for nobody
Hobo- I will do that and see if it works...
I've been trying to do some curbco this warm season. Usually I've done Mondays about dawn to check out what people have done over the weekend and it seems that 2 of the bigger trash haulers from the neighboring city come out then. This past Monday got blown out by a big storm (actually the past 2 Mondays) so I decided to go out today. My trash gets picked up on Thurs. by a local company.
Well, sometimes your the windshield and sometime your the bug. I certainly was the bug today. Nothing sitting curbside, although I did see some home construction dumpsters with some stuff that I might have to go and ask about this evening. Live and learn...
I did my Monday dawn curboco run in my bedroom town. Came across a house that they must be cleaning out from a foreclosure, there was a pile there last week, bigger pile this week. Anyway, one of the things I found and grabbed was this auto/cycle part. At first it I thought it might be a cat (I've never scrapped a car before so not up on my parts) but now I think its a cycle part. It is a Suzuki spark arrester screen type 45Go, Model HS-450-1. I have no idea if its works but the guy must have kept it around for a reason. I might throw it on ebay for cheap and see if I can move it. Its non-magnetic so I'm thinking SS.
Off to the office...
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nice finds The microwave trans formers can be sold as motors or take down to Copper - AL and short
I found an electric mower curbco at the trash cans last Monday. Hadn't had the time to look at it until this morning. Electric mowers haven't been too popular around here. Seen only a few. Looks like this guy tried selling it for $40 at a rummage sale and failed. It probably sat around a while in the garage before trying to throw it away. I wanted to see at least what was under the plastic cover but it doesn't appear to have any bolts or screw to open the thing up. We're going to have a rummage at the end of Aug. and I could always offer it for $10 to make some coin off of it. Feel sort of funny to offer it in the same town where it was thrown away. Maybe I'll have the SiL sell it at her fall rummage. Anyone ever take one of these apart??
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Does it work?? I bought a li-ion battery powered mower($400) about 4 years ago and could not be happier.
Take one of the drop cords you have gotten in your scrapping adventures and add it to the sale. I'd $100 and go from there. Of course it has to work and should be clean and ready to demonstrate. Mike
Thanks miked about adding a extension cord for the lot!!
No, I haven't tried firing it up yet. We'll see.... but like I said, gas powered mowers are the kings around here. Sill, if it works and cleaned up, somebody should want a deal even if its not preferred in their minds...
I ran one of those 120VAC electric mowers in my teenage years--for years. A Sears Crapsman.
I ran it until it would shock me when I touched the handles. Then I wore rubber gloves and ran it some more. It finally gave out in a smoke show.
They are OK on open expanses of lawn. A pain when working around trees and shrubs, 'cause of the trailing cord. Of course, we had piles of trees and shrubs....
Inside, there is a "universal" brush-type electric motor and a small gearbox to slow the rpms down for the blade. The motor is the type that, if not under load, will wind up and continue building revs until it explodes. (the load of spinning the blade holds it back from over-revving while in the lawnmower.) Same kind of motor as in corded electric hand saws, vacuum cleaners and the like.
The more modern equipment nowadays probably has some electronic control that can control the speed variation to some degree.
They are good in that they pump out the power when they are put under load and are not that heavy, compared to your standard constant speed motor like on a quality table saw or furnace fan. Downside is that they slow down as you load them up.
I took one and set it up on a fairly large air compressor. Looked pretty ridiculous- a tiny lawnmower motor running a big 2 cylinder air compressor. But the motor drew 15A at 120V and was theoretically doing 2+ hp. With about a zillion to one belt reduction to get the speed down to what the compressor needed. Worked good but was not rated for continuous running and we had another smoke show eventually.
The motor and armature are (or should be) copper wound. The housings are likely cast ali.
Selling it with an extention cord is the only way to sell it. Cleaned up, with a sharp blade, you should be able to get someone interested in parting with a few bucks for it.
Jon.
Well, I got my storage unit cleaned out on the 31st and I'm out of there until at least the spring. Was going to go on my last "warm season" curbco this morning before the trapping season winds up but ended up taking the wifey into the ER about 10 last night because she thought he had some sort of hemorrhage in her eye and couldn't get the medical eye doctors after hours call service on the phone (she's been a long time diabetic and her chronic high sugars have now started messing with her eyes). We didn't get home until after 0130 and somehow I over slept my alarm for 0500 to make my run. Bummer!
I had noticed on the top of my neighbor's trash can 2 houses up earlier in the evening a boxy looking electronic thingy. Kind of too busy on the streets earlier in the evening that I didn't walk up and snag it (too chicken to do curbco in my direct neighborhood most times) and felt too weird at 0130 to grab it so I thought I get it when I got rolling a little before 5:30.
I was letting the dog out for a squirt a little after 6 this morning and looked up at the top of the street and the trash guys are coming already. Well, they'll win today I guess and went inside and fed the dog. But not willing to go down without a fight, I slipped on my sandals and said to myself I'll at least look to see where the garbage truck is now. Outside the side door of the garage, I look up and the truck is still at least 2 stops away from the neighbor's so I hustled up the sidewalk and pulled the device out of the can and split for home. Got inside the side door before the trash guys had rolled to a halt at their next stop. The thing ended up being an old Sony VHS player with a tape stuck in the machine.
I just couldn't help myself. Can't wait until the couple weeks after Christmas!! :l:lol:
Hope your wife is ok and gets the proper medical attention she needs!
I won't curb co my neighbors house either. I think it has something to do with the fact I called the fuzz on them when their son and his friend stole my daughters bike...... I try to avoid them at any cost (except to mean mug them as I drive slowly by their house)! lol.
I may have had the last laugh on my curbco season yet. I took the kids into school and had the wife's van. Decided to cruise a couple of residential streets on the way back and found a lighter standing fan and then a SS grill with a "free" on it!! Interesting wresting the beast aboard and probably pushed my luck bringing it home unsecured in the back of the van (no tools to take off one of the shelves so it stuck out a bit, got onto the little stretch of highway that gets up to about 55 and the back hatch lifts up and exposes all to the driver behind me--wonder if that made the guy nervous?)! Unfortunately, the grill is magnetic SS but I still might be able to salvage some parts to sell off of ebay and some brass pieces. So my adventures like that are probably done for the year!!
Now its off to by 9 to 5. Enjoy the day!!