Potential for escrap

Today, my wife met with a lady who works for Division for the Blind (state agency - yours may be titled differently). This lady said they have a HUGE problem: They buy a lot of readers that transfer standard text to large print. These machines apparently have lots of mechanical problems. When they don't work anymore, they get replaced with a new machine. There is no one with the skills to repair them so they get stockpiled. This particular contact with my wife was to explore potential to repair the old ones. Alternately, she is looking into ways to dispose of them. I can't just go get them as my wife is a state employee. They'd have to go to the state auction before I can get them. Someone here might have better luck by contacting a department head and offering to take the old ones off their hands.

Might be a way to take two or three to make one good one.

I have a contact with a charitable organization that works with the visually impaired. Is there scrap value in the readers?

Almost all state agencies have to turn the stuff in for auction. That money then goes back into the state coffers. I know that is what my work does. We are associated with the state education system even though we don't get funding from the state. We surplus everything that then goes to auction. I've so wanted to be able to recycle the computers and things that we surplus every month. But have been told they must first go to auction.