Dumpster Diving for Fun and Profit

[Seeker]

A couple years ago I was on a service call in an industrial park to check  why a customers copy machine scanner would error when scanning.  I saw a guy across the street with a cart full of office equipment tossing it in the dumpster.

When I was done with my job went and checked the dumpster and I got 3 nice desktop PC's and 4 flat screen monitors.  Guess the place went out of business and they were cleaning the offices as easy as possible.
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[HarmonicaBruce]

I got a nice vacuum cleaner once from a dumpster.  The only thing wrong with it was it needed to be emptied.

 

[IGBT]

Back in the day, before semiconductor lasers were cheap, I scored several large frame argon lasers from essentially a dumpster (a pile next to the dumpster and I had permission to take what I wanted).

I built a three phase converter and bypassed the interlocks, fired them up and they all worked.  One turned out to be a 5 watt white light mixed gas laser which I sold for $3500.

Today of course you can buy a 1 watt green or blue diode laser for a few bucks.

 

[Wabbit]

About what?

Guy

What I had quoted, the part that said.. "that someone had set out for the taking."... It struck my funny bone because in my head I could see someone coming out of their house and saying, who took my dam bike!