The Gravitar Thread

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I had nothing else to do this evening, so I decided to take my bike out and just see if there was ANYTHING. If I picked up anything, free money, and if I didn't, free workout. Well, I picked up:
- 1 pink computer
- 1 lawnmower
- various poles and mops
- a couple of kids toys and strollers
- cordless drill with no charger or batteries
- wet dry vac
- ceiling fan



Not bad in my opinion for riding around the neighborhood next to me. One thing I have noticed is the lesser income neighborhoods put their trash out earlier (In this case 2 days before trash day). I'm going to start doing this every Sunday now, get it before the Monday guys make their rounds. I usually get the stuff before them anyway.

[sledge]

I'm going to start doing this every Sunday now, get it before the Monday guys make their rounds. I usually get the stuff before them too.

BOOM! How did you carry all of this on your bike? :-)
Do I envision you pumping your legs like the tour de france to get home.. grabbing the keys to the pickup and hauling buns back on the bike route?
:-)

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BOOM! How did you carry all of this on your bike? :-)
Do I envision you pumping your legs like the tour de france to get home.. grabbing the keys to the pickup and hauling buns back on the bike route?
:-)

Lol. I knew someone was going to ask this. Yes, I rode back after examining the situation and drove back to pick the stuff up. I have actually hauled stuff on my bike. He heaviest thing was probably a steel car rim that I carried that while I was riding. Very scary. That along with three light ballasts at a time. THAT was scary.

I went out and did a different area, and found a STOVE AND FRIDGE! I don't have a truck though, so I can only pick up the stove right now. I will have to do that stuff tomorrow.

Just for giggles, this will be me tomorrow going back to the dirty whites, the cyclist are other scrappers:

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I went out and did a different area, and found a STOVE AND FRIDGE! I don't have a truck though, so I can only pick up the stove right now. I will have to do that stuff tomorrow.

Ok, I lied. I ended up going and getting the stove. I decided to leave the fridge for another scrapper, I don't have the room or resources to take it right now.

Anyway, I talked to the guy and he was a landscaper who had like 40 tree stakes for me to take. He wanted to save 6 of them so he can plant some trees, so I left him 10. lol. Anyway, it ALWAYS pays to ask for scrap, even if it's a broom. Because I talked to him, we exchanged business cards and he says he's going to call me when ever he has any metal. Cool deal.

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Here is today's loads (all three of them):



This load consisted of:
- 600 LBS of Shred
- 13 LBS of Dirty Aluminum
- 26 LBS of Aluminum Breakage
- 17 LBS of Electric Motors
- 12 LBS of Batteries by Weight
- 3 LBS of Clean Brass
TOTAL = $65.73

Load number two:


- 340 LBS of Shred

TOTAL = $27.20

Load number three:



- 100 LBS of Shred
- 11 LBS of Insulated #2
- 5 LBS of Christmas Lights (Ribbon wire)
- 38 LBS of Clean Aluminum
- 4 LBS of Cans
- 3 LBS of Shred (Ballast)

TOTAL = $33.90

GRAND TOTAL FOR ALL THREE RUNS: $126.83

Not too bad.

[auminer]

Hey, you need to get you a pickup!!

[Gravitar]

Hey, you need to get you a pickup!!

Or a trailer hitch, much cheaper.

[taterjuice]

Either way!

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I didn't try to find scrap too hard today on the trash routes because I already saw 4 other scrappers. But while I was out, I did find some awesome license plates from Germany. (Yes, they are aluminum. lol)

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Sunday payed off again today. I checked Craigslist yesterday at around midnight and saw an ad for garage sale leftovers in the neighbor hood next to me with no address given. I drove around for about three minutes to get over there and on the first street I drove down I picked up a box of wire and power strips and other random trash along with a gas grill. I unscrewed the "wings" and shoved it in the CR-V. As I drove home I spotted what I thought was a computer tower on the next street I passed. I went and offloaded the grill and wire and realized I left my screwdriver at the place that had the grill. So I drove back and grabbed it and stopped to grab the "Computer". I ended up getting a bass speaker, grow light, and a box that ended up having two motherboards inside. Not bad for 10 minutes of driving around.

This grill ended up having about 15 lbs of cast aluminum:


The motherboards. I'm not even going to try to resell these because I don't know if they are working or not. Into the scrap bin they go.

[auminer]

Not trying to threadjack you, just wanted to post a pic of the feezer in my garage after seeing the decor near your newfound license plates.



Up on top of the freezer sits my scrap-found stereo, my scrap-found speakers, and my scrap-found iPod I listen to when I'm out in my lab... err....garage. LOL

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I found my first real piece of server equipment out of the trash today. The guy who was throwing it out called it a "Reluctant power supply." Yea, I don't know what he was talking about but it's and Compaq Proliant ML-350 Server Unit tipping the scales at 60 LBS. Unfortunately it only has two sticks of ram and one CPU with a copper heat sink and no hard drives, but that's no big deal.



Can't wait to tear into it!

[parrothead]

Reluctant power supply probably means that it doesn't want to work all the time. LOL.

Nice find and keep the updates up.

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Ok, here are the goodies from the server. This thing has been a lot of firsts for me. It has been:
- The first "real server" aside from dual CPU workstations
- The first Intel Xeon CPU I've found
- The first silver RAM I've ever found. (A whopping 4 Megabytes)
- The first ceramic CPU I've ever found (with a gold bottom BTW)
- The first backplane board I've ever found

So yea, I just realized how much I didn't know about the e-scrap business and what it's like to take apart servers.

The goodies:

The power supplies have gold fingers on it, so what do y'all do with those?




I was really surprised when I saw this. Now would this still be considered a finger card or is this considered a motherboard because it has a RAM slot also.


So yea, I did a lot better than I thought!

*****Also, I will hopefully be filing my DBA with my county sometime this week! I just have to get the form notarized and go to the courthouse. That will be exciting because then I will buy a domain name and order new business cards with my new URL on it. So we will see where this will go! Thanks for reading my thread so far!*****

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Today's load, 760lbs of shred along with some non ferrous:



The scale guy cheated me on my insulated copper wire, he gave me low grade wire rather than #2, cheating me about $5.

Total = $98 and some change

[Bear]

Here is today's loads (all three of them):


This load consisted of:
- 600 LBS of Shred
- 13 LBS of Dirty Aluminum
- 26 LBS of Aluminum Breakage

What's the difference in Aluminum Breakage, and Dirty Aluminum ?

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What's the difference in Aluminum Breakage, and Dirty Aluminum ?

Breakage - Engine blocks, etc. Waredu may know more about their grading system.
Dirty - Sheet with metal etc.

[waredu]

When I asked - they basically have clean and dirty, with grades of dirty. But aluminum sheet, plate, extruded, cast - all the same price as long as it is clean. I take my clean aluminum elsewhere, they have better prices on dirty though.

[Mechanic688]

If your going to scrap the power supplies I'd cut the fingers off and sell the P.S. as motors. (around .25 lb)

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If your going to scrap the power supplies I'd cut the fingers off and sell the P.S. as motors. (around .25 lb)

Took the boards out and cut the fingers off with some end cutters. Give me about 5-6 years and I'll have a pound of gold fingers to sell. lol