i suck at auctions

[tautech]

Where are you normally ?

Normally Auckland.

While I'm here; if there are any other Kiwis interested in some of this, for yourself, your club, school, whatever, you can have all you can eat for freight + a beer. But I know SFA about shipping stuff in NZ. I can probably get some cheap fastways stickers, or something similar, from a mate though.

Me too.

We'll hook up and sort out some dates and times via PM and I'll put a little components hamper together as a thanks.

I can turn some into beer for you apelly. Let me know when you guys get together as it would be great to meet you both in person.

Sounds like a fine plan.
I'm pretty free and easy over the break.
I'll pop you a PM with phone and email.

[hendorog]

Where are you normally ?

Normally Auckland.

While I'm here; if there are any other Kiwis interested in some of this, for yourself, your club, school, whatever, you can have all you can eat for freight + a beer. But I know SFA about shipping stuff in NZ. I can probably get some cheap fastways stickers, or something similar, from a mate though.

Me too.

We'll hook up and sort out some dates and times via PM and I'll put a little components hamper together as a thanks.

I can turn some into beer for you apelly. Let me know when you guys get together as it would be great to meet you both in person.

Sounds like a fine plan.
I'm pretty free and easy over the break.
I'll pop you a PM with phone and email.

"Posts: 7000"

And thats a big number, congrats

[Muttley Snickers]

"Posts: 7000"

And thats a big number, congrats

Congratulations tautech,
A very fine effort indeed, which by the way does not go unrewarded, knock yourself out.   

 

[apelly]

Where are you normally ?

Normally Auckland.

While I'm here; if there are any other Kiwis interested in some of this, for yourself, your club, school, whatever, you can have all you can eat for freight + a beer. But I know SFA about shipping stuff in NZ. I can probably get some cheap fastways stickers, or something similar, from a mate though.

Me too.

We'll hook up and sort out some dates and times via PM and I'll put a little components hamper together as a thanks.

Ha. For some reason I had the impression you were down the line somewhere.

And yes. It should be fun to catch up. I'll start another thread and see if any others are interested.

Edit: Free flux here: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/auckland-beer-and-flux-xmas-get-together/

[Brumby]

The guy is so keen to get rid of it he wants me to take it all for my $5 bid, and he's prepared to drop it off at my place. Better that than land fill I guess.

I guess...

But I have no idea how to get rid of it.

Sounds like a reason it ended up on trademe.

[apelly]

But I have no idea how to get rid of it.

Sounds like a reason it ended up on trademe.

No doubt.

But I don't mind putting in a little effort to share it around. That's not to say a bunch of it won't end up back on trademe. We'll see how it goes.

[Fraser]

Disposing of chemicals in the UK can be a challenge.

I had some 12 year old stale Leaded Petrol, over 40 litres of it to be exact, that I needed to dispose of safely. When contacting the council you would have thought I was trying to dispose of radioactive waste !  Eventually I found out that the local waste disposal amenity would accept the petrol provided it was given to them in proper approved petrol cans. And they get to keep the petrol cans !

I was not keen to give away all my nice petrol cans so I approached my local garage who service my car. They have a licence for oil and fuel disposal. They have to drain car tanks when the owner has put the wrong fuel in at a garage. The licence and disposal costs is expensive but they said they would take my 40 Litres no problem. As it turned out they put it in Jerry cans for use in the Garage Kerosene heater !

Other chemicals that are uncommon in domestic situations can be a total nightmare as they are often classified as Industrial waste, for which disposal is normally chargeable at quite high rates by specialists. Sadly some total Bast*rds sometimes dump such chemicals in the countryside  or pour them down storm drains where they poison the local streams, water courses and rivers.

Sometimes people give away 'out-of-date' chemicals rather than having to pay significant sums for correct disposal. I am not at all surprised to hear that the seller wanted rid of so much flux liquid. Better $5 in his pocket than $100+ for specialist disposal costs, if such exist locally.

A good find, but also a bit of a liability in terms of getting rid of it all safely.

Fraser

[MK14]

I had some 12 year old stale Leaded Petrol, over 40 litres of it to be exact, that I needed to dispose of safely.

UK = 40 Litres Petrol = PhotonicInduction(Youtuber) + 40,000 Volts + 2 x 20,000 Watt Light Bulbs + Overclocked Washing Machine, over-filled with 40 Litres of Petrol

= Nice new Youtube video + big bang and a lot of smoke and some lead fumes

[tautech]

Disposing of chemicals in the UK can be a challenge.

I had some 12 year old stale Leaded Petrol, over 40 litres of it to be exact, that I needed to dispose of safely. When contacting the council you would have thought I was trying to dispose of radioactive waste !  Eventually I found out that the local waste disposal amenity would accept the petrol provided it was given to them in proper approved petrol cans. And they get to keep the petrol cans !

I was not keen to give away all my nice petrol cans so I approached my local garage who service my car. They have a licence for oil and fuel disposal. They have to drain car tanks when the owner has put the wrong fuel in at a garage. The licence and disposal costs is expensive but they said they would take my 40 Litres no problem. As it turned out they put it in Jerry cans for use in the Garage Kerosene heater !

Other chemicals that are uncommon in domestic situations can be a total nightmare as they are often classified as Industrial waste, for which disposal is normally chargeable at quite high rates by specialists. Sadly some total Bast*rds sometimes dump such chemicals in the countryside  or pour them down storm drains where they poison the local streams, water courses and rivers.

Sometimes people give away 'out-of-date' chemicals rather than having to pay significant sums for correct disposal. I am not at all surprised to hear that the seller wanted rid of so much flux liquid. Better $5 in his pocket than $100+ for specialist disposal costs, if such exist locally.

A good find, but also a bit of a liability in terms of getting rid of it all safely.

Fraser

Quite so Fraser.

With the likes of used oils and stale fuels a drive to the country where some tree damage cleanups are happening you'd probably be welcomed as stuff like that make good bonfire lighting aids......not to be used in confined areas of course.
We had some logging operations here and on surrounding properties, all finished just before the autumn rains but what a job it would have been to get the leftover slash burnt without some sort of accelerant.

[apelly]

Disposing of chemicals in the UK can be a challenge.
...
A good find, but also a bit of a liability in terms of getting rid of it all safely.

Fraser

Yep. All of that. I was pretty sure this'd turn into a PITA, but I thought I'd risk it.

[CatalinaWOW]

Don't have any recommendations that would be local for any of you, but I have a chemist friend who makes quite a good living making recommendations for repurposing waste materials.  Basically he looks into the waste streams from an operation and comes up with a way to convert that waste into a salable product.  Most of his operations are on an industrial scale (think thousands of gallons a day), but flux is used in industrial quantities so someone probably has already figured something out for this or would if they were put onto it.  Your pallet would be too small scale by itself to deal with, but would become a profitable raw material for a running operation.  At the very least they would accept it for free.