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    Found a garbage disposal

    I find a garbage disposal unit in a box behind a house, great I say cut the cord and the rest can go in with my electric motors! I open up the box and find a dead decomposing mouse in the box still juicy! Dumped the mouse and took the rest!


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    I just had one this weekend. I opened it up to strip the copper and was surprised to find just a regular rotor and a stator made of 2 magnets instead of copper windings. Quite a disappointment. Will turn in as a motor now instead.
    If it wasn't for the $ in $crap, it would just be.....

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    I hate the smell of dead mice.I do like selling disposals as electric motors though.
    Google first ask questions later!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jonniebrass View Post
    I hate the smell of dead mice.I do like selling disposals as electric motors though.
    Maybe he was just sleeping?

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    Quote Originally Posted by hobo finds View Post
    I find a garbage disposal unit in a box behind a house, great I say cut the cord and the rest can go in with my electric motors! I open up the box and find a dead decomposing mouse in the box still juicy! Dumped the mouse and took the rest!
    Maybe its the mouse from the bowl of the chicken congee?????

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    I brought a kitchen stove off someone I know once, for $50, probably US$25 at the time.
    A couple of years later I changed the kitchen and got a flat top stove.

    So I scrapped the old stove, to find a dead mouse stuck in the fan in the back of the oven.

    I'm glad I never actually used the oven part.......

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    You should have left the mouse in there. Yards allow for a little fluff mixed with the metal.......right?

    I found 2 mice in some phone systems I scrapped this year. One was in the power supply and the other one was stuck between the gold plated pins on the backplane and the metal cover. From the looks of it, they went quick. I'm not sure which one went first....the mice or the phone systems. The smell of burnt circuit boards is bad enough.

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    There ain't nothing wrong with an honest days work. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool.- Old Man

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    Yep.. Electric Motor. Usually they are so full of grease and STANK.. I don't want to touch them beyond a cord cut and a "Electric Motor Price Please"
    I'm so into scrapping.. When my Steel Toe Boots Wear out, I cut the Steel out of them and recycle the Toe!

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