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I'm adding all my curb Finds and load pictures to this thread to keep it all in one place. Scroll down for my newest adventures. Thanks and enjoy. :))


My company upgraded the phone system a bunch years back. I was cleaning out the switch room closet and found the old tech. All AT&T stuff. Voice mail and stuff. I don't know much about telcom and i have found only some info online so far. I wanted to also start a thread to post some of my different finds. Enjoy

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telecom is a yummy work like a beautiful girls whispering bacon in your ear

Iv been sitting on this pile for a while now. Time to dig in.

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I scraped a bunch of cable yesterday. Ripped up 4 huge printers and have a stack of new hard drives to work on.

I wanted to post a pic of this draft pad thing that i have no idea is for. I need to do some research on it to see if its worth selling as is to a vintage CAD programmer or just go ahead and scrap it. I don't have a setup to test it sadly.

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So this is why i started and still collect scrap. So early this week i was cruising CL FREE section and saw an ad "Free Stuff. Come help yourself." On my lunch hour i figured i run there (only 5 mins away) and grab a monitor and printer that i saw in the pic. Turns out they are moving to a different state and everything must go. Second biggest haul ive done. Best cold call EVER. Bottom of the bin was some gems. Pics baby

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These were on the bottom of the biggest tub. I don't dare try to test them. Im still researching them.
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Its a little dirty but i put some batteries in and it works.
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The Infocus projector has 4 bran-new bulbs and works perfectly. I haven't tested the Sharp yet.
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Great stuff. Don't forget to research for possible resale of the boards or complete units. Some of the old telecom continues to have value. I have even sold a few of the old hard drives similar to the one in your photo. 73, Mike

I scraped a broken digital camera today during lunch at my 9-5 job. A Canon PowerShot A560 It was fun, until I started playing around the flash and capacitor. OK, so I haven't shocked myself in a long time, but this little cap almost put me on my backside. BE CAREFULL WITH THESE !! in one hand, out the other with enough to still light the flash. OUCH



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Lesson: Don't test something then start poking around in it without discharging any Caps !!!

Good lesson for sure!! I'd like to get a pile like your but then I'd probably have to get a storage unit again because the wifey says I can't process the stuff I have. Sigh...

Today i stopped by a house downtown going through a renovation. They had a nice desk, a dresser, a few broken chairs, kitchen stove and a frig. I decided to only take the stove to toss in my growing scrap pile at home. When i got back to work, a co-worker offered to buy it only if i dropped it off at his house. An extra $20 in my pocket and he ended up only living 3 blocks away from where i picked it up !! Then to top it all off, on the way home from his house, i saw a trashed old electric piano organ thing on the curb. Tons of wire, 4 or 5 old style boards, pile of old moldy wood. After i gutted everything I got quite the surprise :

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This is something i found inside.
"Manufactured by Beautiful Girls"... I wish i worked there ;)
No idea how it works, looks cool tho.

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Its a 'delay bevice'. Basicly there's a speaker on one end of the spring and a microphone on the other.
Sound comes out of the speaker, travels thru the spring and goes into the microphone.
The time it takes to travel the spring is the 'delay period'.

They used to be very sought after by guitarists looking for a delay setup for their amp/speakers.

This is a more modern one from a TV, https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/i...BgUG2fjd0XAi7B
The signal travels thru the glass this time.

I cannot find a image of a SMD device, they are easy to find, the stainless steel rectanglar box on circuit boards.
Grind the top edges to remove the cap and inside is a beautiful crystal etched with lines on it.

Not to toot my own horn but today was the day I gave back to the Forum. Ever since I found SMF, I have been learning and getting more and more excited about e-scrap. I have used different buyers and used better methods in processing my scrap. All learned here. Thank you past, current, and future members for this forum. A life time membership is only pennies to the wealth of knowledge on this site. Totally not sucking up... just how one man feels in a crazy world.

**TOOT TOOT**

Hey Faceball, can I buy that reverb device?

@armygraywolf , pm sent

Thanks for sharing your recent pick up. One thing if you end up scraping the board with the laptop hard drive(5th photo) check to see if any have sold on ebay. I have sold a couple of them(similar). Not lots of money but if its good and passes all tests then someone may very well want it to get their system back up and running.

I feel that along with telecom there are early cad run industrial machines that use these old hard drives are still running. I have sold several old hard drives to companies that recover data. These companies get paid well and if you have what they need to accomplish the job they will pay the price. 73, Mike

This week was fun. Today I picked up a small apartment sized portable dishwasher, two road-side printers, an old SS cappuccino machine, a box of random pots and pans, and some silver plated trinkets and a silver on copper tray. Two days ago i picked up a washer and dryer that were not working. The dryer had over $3 in change rattling around inside.

I picked up a real gem off CL. A 1950's Dumont Cathode-Ray Oscillograph. The guy claims that it works but im not familiar (or comfortable) with tube tech to play around with it. When i get this type of stuff, I tend to hang on to it and learn all I can. I will probably end up taking it to the swap meet and unload it on a ham radio guy. There are alot of then still in this area. Ive done well selling old tube radios and amps.

I just received my first business cards for my e-scrap. Been handing them out as much as I can.


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Printers are sort of a drag...

With the Tin shred price spiking, I took a few hours this morning and put together a nice load. First 3 digit payday in a LONG time. 1500 lbs. Feels good to get a bit of the pile cleaned up and some points from the wife.
During payout, the guy was very direct about letting me know the prices increased. He said it like five time. The yards up here want metal, BAD.

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More they have better price they get. We've been at 145 a ton for a couple weeks. I used to say 180 was my bottom line. Been eating those words all since last summer

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So this is why i started and still collect scrap. So early this week i was cruising CL FREE section and saw an ad "Free Stuff. Come help yourself." On my lunch hour i figured i run there (only 5 mins away) and grab a monitor and printer that i saw in the pic. Turns out they are moving to a different state and everything must go. Second biggest haul ive done. Best cold call EVER. Bottom of the bin was some gems. Pics baby

http://i.imgur.com/dBAOnq5.jpg?1

http://i.imgur.com/SPwbAE9.jpg?1

These were on the bottom of the biggest tub. I don't dare try to test them. Im still researching them.
http://i.imgur.com/f7IDN3t.jpg?1

Its a little dirty but i put some batteries in and it works.
http://i.imgur.com/oQbkQbo.jpg?1

The Infocus projector has 4 bran-new bulbs and works perfectly. I haven't tested the Sharp yet.
http://i.imgur.com/CecJUrX.jpg?1

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I would be willing to buy that radio from you. Send a pm wiyh a price and a way to contact you. Nice find.

I haven't added too much to my scrap pile lately. Today I brought home the largest UPS iv ever gotten. We needed to use the fork truck to load it the truck. The IBM typewriter still works and has an extra ribbon.

Lately me and the wife have been hitting up the auction houses locally and may toss our hand into having a booth in some flea markets soon. First one is this weekend if the weather holds off. Cheers and happy scrappin

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See if you can get the batteries out of that sucker while it is in the bed of your truck. That is where all the weight is.

Would love to know how many and what kind of batteries they are so post some pics :)

Finally got back to scrappin a bit this week. I picked up a large load about a month ago from a school, 22 Dell server blades and 20 incomplete laptops. One thing I got was a beast; a Dell PowerVault 130T. Thing weighs in around 160lbs with no tapes in it. I got it tore down last night.

Soda can for scale
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Both drives were shot. I will tare those down at a later date.
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Almost all sheet steel, heavy gauge. Came apart fairly easy tho.
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Only one large controller board mounted on the power supply tray.
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The robot arm assembly came out in one chunk. The arm worked and did its little dance in its demo mode when I powered it on to test it. I'm hoping to re-purpose it someday ... maybe.
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Overall, disappointing. Surprisingly very little wire. Only one large high grade, one mid grade and one power board. Ended up with over 135lbs of steel. Only good thing was very little plastic.
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Another project iv been working on is a big clean out at my day job. Last year we upgraded our machine shop to newer CNC mills and retired a few large punch presses. The tooling has been sitting around in a warehouse that we are trying to get out of due to downsizing. Boss wants it gone like yesterday. 5 pallets of different tooling and die pieces. He said i could keep what i get from scrap and doesn't want me to wast my time finding buyers. Im sure with a little work i could find a buyer but hes not interested in selling it. Frustrating, i know.

Ok, so now with my question, should I take the time to optimize my scrap potential? These dies could be clean short prep steel if dismantled. If I take them as is, my yard will only take them as shred. My though on it is if my boss doesn't want me spending time to find a buyer, he probably doesn't want me sitting around taking these things apart all day. So i guess its an open question to you good forum folks ... what would you do?
Im leaning towards just dropping them off as is and moving on.

A few are larger but wasn't able to get a good pic
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2 more pallets of the same not pictured
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I pulled one of those (similar) tape drives apart a while ago. Then I googled the part#.

Someone was trying to sell the actual tape drive units for $1000 each on eBay....

I figured, if you only find one buyer, its worth it! So I save most of the bits. I like the robotic arm.
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Can those tool/die plates be recycled, resold? It seems such a waste. I guess in China there's a market for that sort of stuff.

I wanted to revive my daily pickup tread to show everyone my latest treasures.
Yesterday I decided to act on a cold call from Craigslist and ... bingo.

58 towers , 8 printers and 12 crt monitors

The monitors I usually charge, but with the amount of quality towers, I gave the guy a break and just took them free.


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bonus critter
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1st i486 ive gotten. its going into my permanent collection
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Congrats. Nice Score! How's the new pickup like all that scrap?

Great pick up and thanks for the photos. Mike

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Congrats. Nice Score! How's the new pickup like all that scrap?

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Its a '13 eco and she loves it. lots of room in the back for the good stuff and with a bed that will hold just about anything i can toss in it.

the only thing i have a complaint about is the mpg. shes stuck at around 15.5 mpg no matter what or how i drive. My old man has the same truck but not 4wd and he can get 20. Guess thats the price of living in central New York with all the hills/snow.

Nice score on a "cold call" from craiglist. I take it this was from a business seeing those type of desktops and so many the same. Congrats. Although I would have still charged for those CRT's. They are not easy to get rid of.

See if your cv shafts are rotating, fords use a vacuum actuated hub disconnect, when they stick it kills the mileage.

Took a drive down to the shredder today with my biggest load of light iron to date. Truck had no issues with the weight but the little trailer was screamin.

Tally was 2800#s @156/gt so just under $200

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I scraped a broken digital camera today during lunch at my 9-5 job. A Canon PowerShot A560 It was fun, until I started playing around the flash and capacitor. OK, so I haven't shocked myself in a long time, but this little cap almost put me on my backside. BE CAREFULL WITH THESE !! in one hand, out the other with enough to still light the flash. OUCH



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Lesson: Don't test something then start poking around in it without discharging any Caps !!!

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I have learned - Get everything you plan on testing and test them all at once. After testing, set them aside to break down a few days later. ( and even after a few days some may still have voltage)

I am very impressed to see you working that truck. Just my personal view, I can't stand people who buy a very expensive "truck" and then never really use it as a truck.

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I am very impressed to see you working that truck. Just my personal view, I can't stand people who buy a very expensive "truck" and then never really use it as a truck.

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This is how I see it. If im spending as much as I am on payments, I need to find a way to make it pay for itself. Cant do that with a Focus or Prius. I try to keep my work vehicles and play vehicles separate. My Challenger is for play. Trucks are for work, new or old. Plus, im getting to the point in life where im getting tired of bustin knuckles and turning wrenches just to get to work. I do enough of that AT work.

Basically, Id rather turn wrenches because I WANT to, not cuz I NEED to.

Thanks for letting me share.

I was hired to do a barn clean out and today I stopped by to see what I was getting into. The barn was built in the late 1800s and is 4 stories. Sometime back in the 80s, it was rented out to a local military surplus and hardware store and was being used for overflow and storage. Store and owner went belly up and it all was forgot about. An old friend of mine from high school now owns it and is cleaning it out to convert to a home. I was told one room held old computers and printers from the 80s filled to the rafters. I jumped at the chance.

1st load of many...

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Ill post better pics of some of the goodies as I do more research and clean some of it up.
I think ive uncovered a honey hole

Please don't destroy the computers before looking up their collector's value.

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Doing research now.
The Macintosh is a model M0001w 512k. I already have a few ppl I know that want it $$$

The real work has just begun.

Im seeing that alot of this was sold as military surplus. Documentation taped to them are military auction receipts.

Some are complete POS terminals (Point Of Sale)

my mind is blown..... I gota go lay down lol

I'm after an Apple 2 or Commodore 64 if ya see any laying in the pile :)
There is a whole list of systems I would like to have, but I don't have the $ to buy them on Ebay ...

I don't see any test equipment or ham radio or cb stuff but there are collectors for those as well. Super find, I'm happy you got it. 73, Mike

Ive been selling at hamfests for years and do extremely well. My knowledge is limited but I love vintage radio equipment.

Research is key. Learn as much as you can and move on to the next thing.