Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby lunar_c » Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:20 am
Always leave a different way to the way you went in so you don't waste precious junk-finding time retracing your steps!
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby Ferrovelo » Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:16 pm
Its no longer a suburb by suburb collection timetable, now anyone anywhere can put rubbish out at any time and you ring/book to have it picked up.
Its killed off the 'professional' scrappies and scavengers, and the type of 'collecting' described above.
Its also reduced the amount of stuff put out because most people aren't organised enough to book a collection time (no doubt why they changed it - it must be much cheaper for the council).
But the flip side is that because the 'professionals' are no longer out there from dawn to dusk during the collection week, its given everyone else an even chance of a find.
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby Stuey » Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:48 pm
I spotted a LARGE pile of bikes the other week in a hard rubbish collection situation, but because it was in a cul-de-sac, I didn't want to stand, with five or six houses facing me, and go through these bikes. This pile was like a bonfire setup, as tall as me, and there would have been 15/20 bikes in it. Some looked OK, and although the best brand I spotted just driving by was a Giant, who knows what was in there. Probably low end, but I realise there were probably loads of useful parts in that lot. Bah! Never again - I'm donning the thick hide after looking at this thread for a while.
I did pick up a very good nick 2007 Giant CRX frame, though, from another house.
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby HappyHumber » Fri Dec 09, 2011 12:12 am
You big girls' blouse!Stuey wrote:I still have to get over the embarrassment of being a roadside scab. I usually do the quick raid style grab and run.
This is the key thing... early on in your bike scabbing, just don't be afraid. Grab what you can. Do it a few times and the "embarrassment" subsides. There's a lot less thought to stripping a found bike than there is to building a bike you want to be proud of. So it's easy to kick back with a beer or 3 and some basic (non-bike specific) tools and collect parts off of someone's rubbish, whilst you get a feel for how things go-together.Stuey wrote:I spotted a LARGE pile of bikes the other week in a hard rubbish collection situation, but because it was in a cul-de-sac, I didn't want to stand, with five or six houses facing me, and go through these bikes. This pile was like a bonfire setup, as tall as me, and there would have been 15/20 bikes in it. Some looked OK, and although the best brand I spotted just driving by was a Giant, who knows what was in there. Probably low end, but I realise there were probably loads of useful parts in that lot. Bah! Never again - I'm donning the thick hide after looking at this thread for a while.
This was the approach I took a few years ago and soon enough I had all this Himalayan-like range of bike related crap at home, I decided I had to sort and rationalise. You soon learn which examples from the various piles to turf... you can only keep so many Dia-compe single pivot 27" non-quick cam-release brakes as spares if you get my drift.
I found this step especially important come the next bulk rubbish collection in my own suburb
If you're still a bit bashful, put it this way; How often have you stood in your your front room tut-tutting over a cup of earl-grey at some supposed low-life picking out things from your own bulk waste? They're saving more shite from landfill. They're doing their bit for the environment without driving a Prius, drinking soy milk [/srcsm] or whatever fashion proves "you're doing something" for the environment
I'm happy for anyone to grab my leftovers.
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby maccayak » Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:35 am
But if people are out, I just ask if I can have the old bike.
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby Stuey » Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:34 pm
I did ask once if I could grab a bike, when the owner was out. They were fine.
I also welcome scabbers. I've even put notes on things saying they work (computer gear, speakers) to help passers by!
Cheers
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby HappyHumber » Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:47 pm
I just last weekend killed my washing maching of 5 years which I got off a verge with "Free! Works Well!" scribbled on the side in artline marker.Stuey wrote:I also welcome scabbers. I've even put notes on things saying they work (computer gear, speakers) to help passers by!
I got it home.. hooked up the garden hose and extension cord to it out on the back verandah.. ran it throug a cycle with some bleach/disinfectant chucked in. Brilliant!
I suppose I better cross out "Free! Works Well!" and add "Sorry, not any more..." come my bulk rubbish collection in February.
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby mark field » Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:54 pm
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby Mulger bill » Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:14 pm
Around these parts you dial for a truck
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby HappyHumber » Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:09 pm
That gets on my goat...Semar wrote:Within a few km of towns the discarded crt screen tv is a common sight.
I'm still a CRT owner... I keep upgrading from friends & colleagues cast offs I don't let theirs even touch the the ground outside. Latest & greatest acquisition is a very nice 68cm Sony Trinitron which has seen very little use from its previous owner of the last 12 or so years. 4:3 Fat back tellies FTW!
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby mark field » Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:55 am
the patients at my work in the acute mental health ward constantly destroy the TVs on the ward, along with the DVD players, radios, windows, doors, toilets, and furniture. I'm always on the look out for TV,s to replace the broken ones and luckily they can be found every week. there is nothing more terrifying than a seriously angry and bored patient waiting to explode because they have "nothin to do". praise be to the cheap LCD TV is all i can say.Semar wrote:Within a few km of towns the discarded crt screen tv is a common sight.
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Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby hiflange » Sat Dec 10, 2011 9:00 pm
Last couple of years around here there have been copper recyclers snipping cables from working appliances, rendering them useless. They seem to operate under cover of darkness. They are probably embarrassed and have reason to be so. Still if you put something out for landfill I suppose you can't complain if even a little bit of it is diverted.
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby Mulger bill » Sat Dec 10, 2011 11:58 pm
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby Ferrovelo » Sun Dec 11, 2011 6:13 pm
If you see a 9' tall fella looking for his bike, send him my way.
I'm not sure how sidewalls go as a braking surface though?
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby drubie » Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:07 pm
but really, that's rubbish. We get none of it because the choices are illusory.
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby lunar_c » Mon Dec 12, 2011 12:38 am
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby hiflange » Mon Dec 12, 2011 1:17 am
Getting a little OT I know but I've always been fascinated by the uselessness of gold. As I understand it half of the gold we manage to extract in ever diminishing fractions from ever larger holes is used in jewellery, most of the rest is used for "investment" and a small proportion finds it's way into practical applications on account of it's conductive and corrosion resistant qualities. Copper and aluminium have a broad range of practical uses and both are eminently recyclable materials, making them attractive to thieves and scavengers. I've heard it said that aluminium was referred to as "frozen electricity" in the early days of its refinement, on account of the energy input required to transform bauxite to alumina.mark field wrote:In the future, copper will be as expensive as gold. Aluminum is also on its way to being rare
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby ldrcycles » Mon Dec 12, 2011 1:02 pm
+1, I really like the look of centrepull brakes.lunar_c wrote:Cool brakes, I like them.
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby HappyHumber » Mon Dec 12, 2011 1:10 pm
That's hilarious. Gotta wonder where the "minimum insertion" mark is on that seat post... Though my money is that it's the wrong sized seatpost just barely wedged into the seat tube... it was probably never ridden like that, or least by noone who values their 'boys' still being attached to their body.amrjon wrote:Standish, AS FOUND.
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby lunar_c » Mon Dec 12, 2011 1:26 pm
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby Lark2004 » Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:43 pm
lunar_c wrote:All of you racers .. you think YOU ride a decent saddle to stem drop? THIS is a drop ..
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