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What are the best finds you've found scrapping or dumpster diving?
I found a 10x10 metal piece that holds cloth in the air for shade.
A working Sony Vaoi Laptop.
Brand new clothes
$35 in cash.
Brand new pharmaceutical glass jars, beakers, flasks,
7/325mg Hydrocodone/Tylenol 100 pills
20 Gallons of Lacquer Thinner.
Can't think of anything else off hand. What about you?
Just the other day I was walking the highway and found a garmin rino 110 walkie talkie retail at $194.
Found a set of 17 inch chrome ghetto whells for a pimpala chevy. Sold for 280!
Recyclethis and I pulled a working 32 inch LCD sony bravia TV from behind a big box store dumpster. Works pefect and is hanging in the daughters room as we speak. See I do pay my kids for helping me :)
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It wasn't scrap but I did find it. I use to own a business where we did DEA drug lab clean outs. Usually meth labs. On clean up the DEA deemed everything in a bedroom contaminated. We drummed everything up and once it got back to the shop I went to sort out the mess. Inside a paint can I fund $6700 in cash. I had to incinerate it since it was considered contaminated hazardous waste according to the DEA. ; )
Thats messed up man...6700..dang..did u watch it get burned or did one of the agents say it needs to be?
I found MW3 n COD n another dragon game for ps3 in a few dvd players I picked up along with 5 computers a guy was giving away for free..great deal since they all worked..beats me y they were in dvd players..maybe the kids trying to hid their violent games frim dad..lol
Scrappy I think he was alluding to the fact that it wasn't incinerated.
Wink ; ) wink ; )Quote:
Originally Posted by scrappy888
That's a good idea, always look in the cd/dvd players for a disk, I've found many disks left in them (left a few there myself as well ; )Quote:
Originally Posted by scrappy888
Even if you don't plug it up, or if it's out of the unit, there's a little pinhole there to stick a straightened paper clip into and open the tray
I think my top finds have been:
-About 2 pallets of working office grade printers, all free
-A large lot of vintage Apple stuff, incredibly cheap
-Countless tools
-A working electric chainsaw
I'm still waiting to find cash hidden somewhere, but I'm still hoping
I found a .925 sterling silver chain in a dumpster. A coin colletor gave me 42.00 for it.
Car buffer, pressure washer, mongoose bike for usable/sellable items.
Best scrapping items - 6 burner s/s grill. Weighed 277lbs. I was hauling cleanout items from an office building for work. I ended up taking about 100 power bars that sat in the bottom of office partition walls. Took me 8 hrs to break em down. I think they netted 200+ lbs of copper bars and 100+ lbs of alum casings.
Best things ive found that work that i didn't scrap would have to be.
1. 3 ton floor jack
2. Craftsman 12 drawer tool chest with the wheels on
3. HQ video camera in case with the excessories
Also, I myself am still waiting to find that million dollar briefcase.
yeah, man, if you find my briefcase, i'd sure like to have it back :)Quote:
Originally Posted by greytruck
$6700? You could have put that money in the washing machine with a couple of towels to decontaminate it.
Oh.. but today I scored 4 car batteries and 2 aluminum toyota wheels from the giveaway pile at a yard sale.
Yard sales are always good for scrap.
Best finds is hard but one of the first was 2 large brass candlesticks in my neighbors dumpster. Ended up with 50lbs pure brass.
What are power bars?Quote:
Originally Posted by Russell
power strips that run along the bottom of office cubiclesQuote:
Originally Posted by Scrapcrazy
By far my best picks which I didnt scrap were 13, 1950's vintage patio chairs, then another time I got 7 rolls of silver dimes and 2 $50's with them.
Still have all of it.
Just two weeks ago got a nice commercial air compressor for the shop that client was tossing.
Cool!Quote:
Originally Posted by BurlyGuys
i bought a large lot of computers, copiers, boxes of finger boards, and a few monitors at a estate auction for 50 bucks.. filled the bed of my ranger and 5x12 trailer.. then the bed again.
Scored 4 working printers from Staples dumpsters, Each one is retail at over a 100 bucks. The one is an office one that costs 450 retail and the cartridges are 75 bucks a piece. Reason they were tossed was they were the demo version and or the On Shelf model, well I guess they didn't think they worked.
Recently 400 bucks worth of silverware
Scrapped a pick up with full tank of fresh gas and a brand new pioneer cd playa
Got a heavy shelving rack from an apartment clean-out, then got 2 free Birch counter-tops, put them together and have industrial grade shelving in my garage!!! Found a set of rare BMW BBS alu rims for a 5 series BMW, sold them through Ebay classifieds for roughly 400 Dollars. Also picked up a working floor jack. and and and......