What did you throw out today

[johnh]

Finally got around tossing some stuff into the metal recycling bin at work today.
2 IBM blade servers chassis and about 20 HS20 Blades and all the power supplies, network cards.

The chassis had a inbuilt switch provide by Cisco.  So you could vlan up the different interfaces on the cards

They had a 2G memory and twin 36 ultra scsi drives

Being sitting in some rack (powered down) for over 10 years after a project got cancelled. Never got out of the development phase.

[TerraHertz]

I suspect everyone else is wondering the same thing, but too polite to ask - was there some company policy issue that prevented listing this stack of gear on the forum buy/sell area, as free for pickup?

Pretty sure someone would have wanted it, if only for curiosity and salvage of some parts. Hard drive magnets even.

Alternatively, where is your dumpster, and when is the next collection?

[AlxDroidDev]

I would have collected your trash in the blink of an eye! There are lots of parts to be savaged from that pile, like those big caps, heatsinks, and so on.

[OiD]

I guess that cleared up some space!
I've been going through all my stuff and tossing junk out, having little mercy here, or I'll keep it forever saying to myself "this will be usefull for..."!!

[M4trix]

My wife... 

j/k 

[Rick Law]

My wife... 

j/k 

Don't be wasteful, recycle!

[rdl]

I still have the first two PCs I bought and the first PC I ever built. I have at least twenty power cords that I'll never use, and a 14 liter plastic storage box half full of various USB cables I can't imagine ever needing. And, as the saying goes, that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[matseng]

I just got rid of about 600 science fiction pocket books and a couple of hundreds of other books - actually I didn't throw them away, I gave them to a friend that promised to donate the ones he didn't want to keep for himself to others. 

I'm soon going to move, crossing an ocean, for the third time in 10 years and I realized that I haul around to much crap. The last move required three-quarters of a 40ft container.  This time I aim for just a full 20ft :-)

My wife is currently removing the DVDs themselves from the cases of our 2000+ DVD collection and inserting them into binders instead. That will free up considerable shelf space.  And also leave us with a number of XL garbage bags filled with (the surprisingly heavy) empty plastic dvd cases....

[Psi]

I threw out an old Sony data projector. The kind you would find in a 1990 era university lecturer room. 1meter long and heavy.

It still kind of went, but the lamp hour counter had already been reset on the same lamp and was at 1500 hours on a 1000hour lamp. So likely to explode any minute
And new lamps cost US$2000.
It was also 800x600 so not all that useful any more.

I couldn't bring myself to throw it out whole, so i took it completely to bits and found lots of useful parts including precision geared motors, fans, mechanical linkages etc..

The most interesting thing was the optics. Have you ever seen beam splitter cubes this big?

(AA eneloop battery for size)

[station240]

Past few days I've tossed out:
1) 5Kgs of aluminium heatsinks, mostly T03 type, 1kg of brass, 2Kgs of copper. All to the metal recyclers. From stuff I'll never use and dead small UPSl units.
2) ~10kgs of circuitboards and dead laptops I dismantled.
3) A couple of Apple Mac LCIII era keyboards.

The e-waste is going to a recycler, once I finish finding the rest of it all.
They let me raid their bin, wasn't anything I wanted last time.
 

[Muttley Snickers]

It must be something in the water, I have a sudden urge to get rid of stagnant stuff and the neighbour over the road has asked if he can borrow our recycle bin this week and openly declared that he was going to thin out some stuff, this people is unheard of as he is a prolific hoarder and never throws out anything, in fact he almost goes out daily to find things he will never put to any use.

I will be getting the camera out for this never before seen event.

[Brumby]

It was a couple of months ago, but I tossed out 6 computer cases that I had used to store parts from other computers.  Imagine a motherboard at the bottom of the case and then multiple other cards, HDDs, etc. laid in a 3D tetris style.  Nothing plugged in, just packed inside the case.  They each weighed twice what they should have.  I kept them around for a while in case I needed something - but I hadn't touched them in years and the tech in those was so old I probably never would, so out they went.

I didn't throw everything out though....

I still have my first computer, with a 486 CPU and Windows 3.11.  I haven't fired it up for a couple of years, but the last time I tried it booted with no worries.  I also have 2 other computers.  They have bits missing and dead HDDs - but they are only 10 years or so old...

[Halcyon]

Past few days I've tossed out:
3) A couple of Apple Mac LCIII era keyboards.

Bugger! I could have used those.

[Stonent]

About a fist sized lump of fat (in total, not all in one glob) that I trimmed off a pork shoulder.

I didn't think anyone wanted it.

[Mr Smiley]

Many years ago, when I worked as an electronics Tec at a university. I shared the lab with my boss. With it being a university, they throw away thousands of pounds of perfectly good equipment/parts without a second thought. When I was even younger i started making things from skip finds.

Anyway, I had my desk covered with all sorts, on the desk, under the desk, on shelves over my desk and in the surrounding filing cabinets. But it was all work related useful stuff and everything had good reason to be there. I always had several projects on the go at once. One day he looked at me and said my desk and work place were covered in crap and told me to get rid of all the rubbish. Well I looked at it, and I looked at it.  After a few days I told him there wasn't anything that I could throw away. He would pick something up and I’d say why I had it and what it could be useful for. So that led to all sorts of fall outs.

In the end I offered a solution. I would go to another department and get another Electronics Tec to come and he could throw away anything he thought was useless rubbish without question.

He was there a full day.

All he could suggest was a few sweet wrappers and nothing was said after that.

 

[Skimask]

6 cars...

[OiD]

6 cars...

Am I the only one who sees a guy with sunglasses in the grill of the vehicle to the left?

[bitslice]

IBM blade jpg

hmm, that flat heatsink is just what I need to mount a 100W LED onto.

I wish such magic skips existed near to me.

[mojoe]

I just got rid of about 600 science fiction pocket books and a couple of hundreds of other books - actually I didn't throw them away, I gave them to a friend that promised to donate the ones he didn't want to keep for himself to others. 

I'm soon going to move, crossing an ocean, for the third time in 10 years and I realized that I haul around to much crap. The last move required three-quarters of a 40ft container.  This time I aim for just a full 20ft :-)

My wife is currently removing the DVDs themselves from the cases of our 2000+ DVD collection and inserting them into binders instead. That will free up considerable shelf space.  And also leave us with a number of XL garbage bags filled with (the surprisingly heavy) empty plastic dvd cases....

Years ago, I decided that keeping dead tree books and plastic CD's/videos wasn't worth it any more. I have been doing ebooks, MP3 and MP4 ever since. I don't miss the physical items one bit.

[Carl_Smith]

Years ago, I decided that keeping dead tree books and plastic CD's/videos wasn't worth it any more. I have been doing ebooks, MP3 and MP4 ever since. I don't miss the physical items one bit.

I recently went through hundreds of CD-ROMs I had accumulated over the years.  I looked at each one and decided if there was any reason I would ever want the files on the CD.  If so, I made an ISO image of the CD, and backed the ISOs up to a portable hard drive.

But did I throw the CDs away?  No.     I put the CDs into several empty spindle packs I had, and put the empty jewel cases into a box.  Someone might need empty jewel cases sometime.   Then I figured there might be interesting things I could do with hundreds of unwanted CD-ROMs.  So they are still sitting there on the shelf.    So that was a cleaning failure.

I have another box that has maybe 50 databook CD-ROMs I accumulated between the dead-tree databook times and the download-the-PDF-online times.   I figured if there were any datasheets on those CDs that I couldn't get online, I shouldn't be using the parts for anything anyway.  But I couldn't bring myself to throw them away either.   

[PointyOintment]

But did I throw the CDs away?  No.     I put the CDs into several empty spindle packs I had, and put the empty jewel cases into a box.  Someone might need empty jewel cases sometime.   Then I figured there might be interesting things I could do with hundreds of unwanted CD-ROMs.

CD lamp. Woodturning blanks, both CDs and jewel cases (Templeboy Turnings channel on YouTube). Curtains, Christmas tree ornaments, or other decorative items. CD exploder ammo (?).

[Carl_Smith]

CD lamp. Woodturning blanks, both CDs and jewel cases (Templeboy Turnings channel on YouTube).

Oooh, another YouTube channel to watch.  Dave makes a living putting videos on YouTube.  I need to figure out a way to make a living just watching videos on YouTube.   
   

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[AF6LJ]

The In and Out bag dinner came in.

[bitseeker]

Yum!