Erics Rubbish

ericmark · 11 Jun 2020

Over the years I have collected items which at the time I thought may come in handy, now my son is clearing out my garage, and I look at some items and wonder if should go in a museum, I looked at a little black box clearly never been fitted as new, and it took some time to realise it was a windscreen wiper pause controller from a Lada Niva.

New rectifier pack Lucas ACR alternators was another one.

The number of MCB's is silly.

We in years gone by the radio club, or local heritage railway would hold rallies and you could donate all this rubbish and some one would want it, one day 8 hours anything not gone went into the bin.

Large items like the hedge cutter selling on ebay OK, and also giving away with free cycle, but with this Colvid 19 I wonder what to do with a garage clear out, wonder what others do, seems a shame to bin it all.

EFLImpudence · 11 Jun 2020

When you have thrown them away you will need them.

ericmark · 11 Jun 2020

Yes which is why preferred option is to give to heritage railway, then if required there is a chance of getting it back, but I am loathed to simply put it all in the bin.

bernardgreen · 11 Jun 2020

I am in the same situation, decades of stuff that will come in useful one day, but I have to admit most of it will never be used by me.

And as EFL just said, after disposal they suddenly become necessary.

Worse thing is my HP 7580B pen plotter may have to go, works perfectly but pens are no longer available at a sensible price.,

SUNRAY · 11 Jun 2020

I'm in the same boat, I've made the decision to retire from all of my work genres [partly due to health] and my program was to have been clearing out my storage area [granny flat] as soon as the weather improved, my expectation was to initially dump stuff on the drive that was to simply be dumped, then sort it into recycling, tip & scrap and then to transport to those places... those buggers all closed so I haven't started yet.

SUNRAY · 11 Jun 2020

bernardgreen said:
And as EFL just said, after disposal they suddenly become necessary.

I've always been terrible when stripping out installations and held onto 'useful things', about 5 years ago I turfed out loads of heating/ventilation stuff including some 0-10V pot's, these were a potentiometer with a changeover switch and a 24V [ac or dc] to 10V circuit. the idea is to insert between a 0-10V controller and the device being controlled and normally they sit there 'turned off', when required they could simply be turned from 'off' to any % you wanted the device to be operating at. Similar style products are simply not available but about a month after dumping I needed to set some devices while working on the system... total PITA especially as all I could think was: if only...

I have a pile of 6 way 20A or 32A isolators which were fitted to AHUs but I needed a 7th contact for the star/delta control, I couldn't find aux contacts for them and ended up changing the whole isolator but being a foreign make have been refused by everyone I've offered them to.

DetlefSchmitz · 11 Jun 2020

I see what you did there Eric.

Simon35 · 11 Jun 2020

DetlefSchmitz said:
I see what you did there Eric.

Harsh.

bernardgreen · 11 Jun 2020

A lot of my "stock" is from buying 100 of an item when only a few were needed for prototyping.

A pack of 100 was not much more than buying 25 individually packed items ( sometimes cheaper ) so 75 "one day useful" items went into the stores.

ericmark · 11 Jun 2020

DetlefSchmitz said:
I see what you did there Eric.

Glad some one noticed.

333rocky333 · 11 Jun 2020

Put it all in a box and use Facebook Marketplace, its surprising what people want, some take it i assume to sell it on themselves, but at least you get the satisfaction that someone may use it,
Most leave it out when they collect for social distancing or get them to post cash in envelope through door

JohnW2 · 11 Jun 2020

This is an interesting one. The last thread we had whose title referred to someone's "rubbish" was locked because the title violated forum rules. I suppose it's different when the owner of the rubbish starts the thread

EddieM · 11 Jun 2020

I've got about £15k's worth of stuff that's been in storage for years, for which I've probably paid out about £10k for.

Mottie · 11 Jun 2020

If I died and my wife sold all my 'rubbish' for what I told her I paid for it, someone out there would be getting a bargain!

delmel · 11 Jun 2020

SUNRAY said:
I've always been terrible when stripping out installations and held onto 'useful things', about 5 years ago I turfed out loads of heating/ventilation stuff including some 0-10V pot's, these were a potentiometer with a changeover switch and a 24V [ac or dc] to 10V circuit. the idea is to insert between a 0-10V controller and the device being controlled and normally they sit there 'turned off', when required they could simply be turned from 'off' to any % you wanted the device to be operating at. Similar style products are simply not available but about a month after dumping I needed to set some devices while working on the system... total PITA especially as all I could think was: if only...

I have a pile of 6 way 20A or 32A isolators which were fitted to AHUs but I needed a 7th contact for the star/delta control, I couldn't find aux contacts for them and ended up changing the whole isolator but being a foreign make have been refused by everyone I've offered them to.

pretty much all of them are foreign

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