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My best scrap yard/dumpster finds.
JPortici:
For the joy of dave, i found some (WORKING!) amstrad CPC computers
i remember he saying he really wants to do a teardown of those but i sold them all but one years ago
and the one left is the very first computer my family had, older than me, can't give it away
Bendba:
I wish I'd find that sort of things one day. The best stuff I found so far was a portable tv-radio-cassette player.
Hope your CPC is still working.
VK3DRB:
Best I found was a drive-in speaker at the side of the road on the annual rubbish dump day. In its day, you hooked the speaker on your window and the wire wound pot usually crackled the sound as you turned the pot. The sound was definitely lo-fi, but they were what they were and drive-ins were fun. I never hooked up the speaker but a few years alter, a bloke was selling a Gottleib pioneer pinball machine. He wanted $1500 for it. As he was a collector of memorabilia like petrol station signs, I asked if he would negotiate the price if I offered him the drive-in speaker. He REALLY wanted that speaker. He let me have the pinball machine for $700 plus the drive-in speaker. So that speaker was worth $800 to me :-+.
There are drive-ins still in Melbourne.
JPortici:
--- Quote from: Bendba on July 02, 2017, 12:38:07 am ---I wish I'd find that sort of things one day. The best stuff I found so far was a portable tv-radio-cassette player.
Hope your CPC is still working.
--- End quote ---
it is ;) 31 years old and counting
H.O:
This is probably the best dumpster dive score I've ever done.
The other day I found this EWM Tetrix 180 TIG/MMA machine in the dumpster (well, the recycling bin for electronics to be accurate). At first try it looked to be working but I quickly realised it had no control of the current, it was 100% all the time. I obviously suspected the hall sensor or measuring circuitry and I was correct but I could barely believe what the actual fault was. Nope, I'm not kidding.
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