Does Any One Else Dumpster Dive?
Been dumpster diving for awhile now. Mostly electronics places. They throw away such useful things! I have built entire computers out of parts I have found. As well as T.vs/monitors. So my question is this. Does anyone else dumpster dive? or know of places that may have worthy dumpsters? What have you found?
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Back in my salad days, yes.
Once I found a stack of microprocessor boards with PROMs in them. Both the microprocessor chips and the PROMs were in sockets and brought a nice little bit of change on the surplus market.
not me, but i have lived in communities that require dumpsters to be padlocked to prevent the practice. some stores/manufactures don’t handle electric product returns, they just cut the power cords and toss rather than send to a refurb center. its wasteful and not very green. so some of the dumpster stuff is as good as new because the return may not have been for a defect.
I sure do. Mostly in the dumpster in the industrial park where I have my shop. I can’t even tell you how many things I have gotten out of it. It’s amazing what people will throw out. This week I got a DVD recorder / player, a DVD player and a combo VCR/DVD player. Only the combo unit had a problem. The other two work perfectly. The more notable finds in the past are a Danelectro guitar amplifier that is worth several hundred $ to a collector (I re-tubed it and gave it to a guitar collector friend) and a Griswold dutch oven with a similar value on the collector market. I don’t seek this stuff out though. I stick to the one dumpster, mostly noticing stuff when I toss the trash. Sometimes I’ll see things set outside dumpsters elsewhere. I picked up quite a bit of knotty pine lumber that way a few months ago which I turned into raised garden beds.
I found a 1979 Panasonic Ranger portable television, and my friends and I have found motherboards, sticks of RAM graphics cards, a mouse or two, keyboards, office chairs, a kitchen chair, a console TV, lap top cases…I also go with my brother a lot too.
Wait you are my brother.
So you already know all this stuff you were there.