Good week for curb co

It was spring cleaning this week a few towns away.
Picked up
4 microwaves
1 microwave/oven combo
7 lawn mowers (2 electric 1 toro)
4 nice size satellite dishes
Lots of wire
1 DVD player
4 sets of ski poles
Stainless steel light poles, blenders, a toaster, a box of aluminum water bottles, and a lot of other random things.
Sorry can't post pics yet

Cool!! I'm looking forward to more "curb alerts" this spring as well, especially as I clear my plate of other commitments...

that's a sweet haul those electric mowers may not be the most popular but love the parts prices for resale and love curbco and curb alerts on clist and with the recent update on the app of which I full cant say cause of advertising that city.... does it makes it so much faster and easier to snag stuff up

I have been going to cleanup days the last 2 weekends. Have filled my truck and enclosed trailer everytime. Havnt had much luck on precious metals. Pull about $100 each time at least it's something but it's alot of fun.

Overflow season. I pick up scrap faster than I can strip it. I haven't done a regular route in two weeks because my space is full. One CL ad was a week of work.

Charge up that scooter see if it works!

Charn- sort of like trapping season. The critters wait for nobody

Hobo- I will do that and see if it works...

I've been trying to do some curbco this warm season. Usually I've done Mondays about dawn to check out what people have done over the weekend and it seems that 2 of the bigger trash haulers from the neighboring city come out then. This past Monday got blown out by a big storm (actually the past 2 Mondays) so I decided to go out today. My trash gets picked up on Thurs. by a local company.

Well, sometimes your the windshield and sometime your the bug. I certainly was the bug today. Nothing sitting curbside, although I did see some home construction dumpsters with some stuff that I might have to go and ask about this evening. Live and learn...

I did my Monday dawn curboco run in my bedroom town. Came across a house that they must be cleaning out from a foreclosure, there was a pile there last week, bigger pile this week. Anyway, one of the things I found and grabbed was this auto/cycle part. At first it I thought it might be a cat (I've never scrapped a car before so not up on my parts) but now I think its a cycle part. It is a Suzuki spark arrester screen type 45Go, Model HS-450-1. I have no idea if its works but the guy must have kept it around for a reason. I might throw it on ebay for cheap and see if I can move it. Its non-magnetic so I'm thinking SS.

Off to the office...

nice finds The microwave trans formers can be sold as motors or take down to Copper - AL and short

I found an electric mower curbco at the trash cans last Monday. Hadn't had the time to look at it until this morning. Electric mowers haven't been too popular around here. Seen only a few. Looks like this guy tried selling it for $40 at a rummage sale and failed. It probably sat around a while in the garage before trying to throw it away. I wanted to see at least what was under the plastic cover but it doesn't appear to have any bolts or screw to open the thing up. We're going to have a rummage at the end of Aug. and I could always offer it for $10 to make some coin off of it. Feel sort of funny to offer it in the same town where it was thrown away. Maybe I'll have the SiL sell it at her fall rummage. Anyone ever take one of these apart??

Thanks miked about adding a extension cord for the lot!!

No, I haven't tried firing it up yet. We'll see.... but like I said, gas powered mowers are the kings around here. Sill, if it works and cleaned up, somebody should want a deal even if its not preferred in their minds...

I ran one of those 120VAC electric mowers in my teenage years--for years. A Sears Crapsman.

I ran it until it would shock me when I touched the handles. Then I wore rubber gloves and ran it some more. It finally gave out in a smoke show.

They are OK on open expanses of lawn. A pain when working around trees and shrubs, 'cause of the trailing cord. Of course, we had piles of trees and shrubs....

Inside, there is a "universal" brush-type electric motor and a small gearbox to slow the rpms down for the blade. The motor is the type that, if not under load, will wind up and continue building revs until it explodes. (the load of spinning the blade holds it back from over-revving while in the lawnmower.) Same kind of motor as in corded electric hand saws, vacuum cleaners and the like.

The more modern equipment nowadays probably has some electronic control that can control the speed variation to some degree.

They are good in that they pump out the power when they are put under load and are not that heavy, compared to your standard constant speed motor like on a quality table saw or furnace fan. Downside is that they slow down as you load them up.

I took one and set it up on a fairly large air compressor. Looked pretty ridiculous- a tiny lawnmower motor running a big 2 cylinder air compressor. But the motor drew 15A at 120V and was theoretically doing 2+ hp. With about a zillion to one belt reduction to get the speed down to what the compressor needed. Worked good but was not rated for continuous running and we had another smoke show eventually.

The motor and armature are (or should be) copper wound. The housings are likely cast ali.

Selling it with an extention cord is the only way to sell it. Cleaned up, with a sharp blade, you should be able to get someone interested in parting with a few bucks for it.

Jon.

Well, I got my storage unit cleaned out on the 31st and I'm out of there until at least the spring. Was going to go on my last "warm season" curbco this morning before the trapping season winds up but ended up taking the wifey into the ER about 10 last night because she thought he had some sort of hemorrhage in her eye and couldn't get the medical eye doctors after hours call service on the phone (she's been a long time diabetic and her chronic high sugars have now started messing with her eyes). We didn't get home until after 0130 and somehow I over slept my alarm for 0500 to make my run. Bummer!

I had noticed on the top of my neighbor's trash can 2 houses up earlier in the evening a boxy looking electronic thingy. Kind of too busy on the streets earlier in the evening that I didn't walk up and snag it (too chicken to do curbco in my direct neighborhood most times) and felt too weird at 0130 to grab it so I thought I get it when I got rolling a little before 5:30.

I was letting the dog out for a squirt a little after 6 this morning and looked up at the top of the street and the trash guys are coming already. Well, they'll win today I guess and went inside and fed the dog. But not willing to go down without a fight, I slipped on my sandals and said to myself I'll at least look to see where the garbage truck is now. Outside the side door of the garage, I look up and the truck is still at least 2 stops away from the neighbor's so I hustled up the sidewalk and pulled the device out of the can and split for home. Got inside the side door before the trash guys had rolled to a halt at their next stop. The thing ended up being an old Sony VHS player with a tape stuck in the machine.

I just couldn't help myself. Can't wait until the couple weeks after Christmas!!