In message snipped-for-privacy@brightview.co.uk>, newshound snipped-for-privacy@stevejqr.plus.com> writes
My plan is to try ebay first, with a miniscule starting price, then Freecycle, then the tip.
I reckon I can match or beat anyone for quantity and quality of utter junk. Things like a pair of very large dot matrix printers with some weird industrial interface, acquired with the aim of providing a source of stepper motors to use in a computer controlled satellite dish drive system. The need to see other satellites (or any) has gone and I'm getting too old anyway for serious projects.
Then there's the boating stuff. Anyone need a Morris Commander gearbox?
Either way there are people that buy that sort of thing. They pay good money when they want one. At other times dunno, someone might take it if the price is good enough.
AIUI, the Morris Commander was a marine diesel engine used in fishing boats. I got the gearbox with the idea of attaching it to the make-1-from-two Enfield diesel engines I had been given. But before I started that, I was offered, from 2 separate sources, a Vetus marine diesel and the separated-at-birth associated gearbox that just needed bolting back together. That's what's in the boat now.
The 2 Enfields went on Freecycle. The gearbox is in the shed under loads of other junk, so I can't actually get to it to get it out yet for its photoshoot. Somewhere under the same pile is the boat's first engine, a single cylinder air cooled Petter.
A long time ago I had a lengthy chat with the designer of the small, simple but advanced Petter diesels. He was very, very unhappy about their takeover by Lister and the ensuing rise in acceptance of small Japanese diesels in their place. The small water cooled Petters were brilliant in that you could screw on standard galvanised plumbing fittings rather than unique, mega priced pieces of pipe.
I was going to suggest some African computer charity but it seems they have become very fussy in what they get, like "PCs that are less than 8 years and at least dual core".
Hell, it seems a laptop I regularly use isn't good enough for them!
Before binning I would put the lot on Freecyle as a single lot. Some lad or lass might have the time to put them on eBay and make a few pennies.
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