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One small all-clad , sans lid, from the LTD range of pans. In OK condition, needed cleaning. Now a happy member of our kitchen.
One small form factor Dell PC, missing a hard drive. I had a special request for crappo machines plus parts from an acquantaince the other week so this will be great for that. It is a Pentium 3, socket style, but is super low end. After putting in a new (old) cdrom knoppix booted ok, all the various hardware checks out. This and a pile of parts will be handed over at some stage.
A set of three Wagner cast iron skillets, newish ones unfortunatly. Also a made-in-USA deep skillet of indeterminate manufacturer. The Wagners are available if anybody wants them, but the deep skillet , I guess "chicken fryer" is it's technical designation, is cleaned and cured and ready to cook. It went to visit Mr Hitachi Grinder in the basement and then had a vinegar steam bath before being heated with some oil.
Yet another full mac keyboard. This one does not appear to have had the coca cola rinse treatment but has some dirt in it. Will be useful for something, even if only ebay amusement purposes.
A paper shear in excellent condition. Looks to be of very high quality but very simple, from a time when such things were important. 1950s Cold War American engineering.
Two Hoffritz Knives and sharpening stone. How convenient. They are not the best in the world but will be handy at some stage. They are even not very blunt. Question: Were they just used in a grisly murder before being thrown away?
One HP Scanjet 4100Cse scanner, new in the box, never been unwrapped. The box was still mostly sealed with original tape. Fine stuff. Not worth a lot except as a cheap scanner but when you need a cheap scanner you need a cheap scanner.
A restaurant style stainless steel food tray, we have one already but now we have two. This is slightly thinner material than the other (booooo, hisss!).
A pair of random pewter candle sticks, Made in India. Of no particular value or usefullness apart from the fact that we often get power cuts and have nothing to hold our candles in. We suspect they were thrown away because the candle burned out, we seem to meet to quite a few people with that mindset.
Seemingly 3/4 of a set of garden furniture in very good condition. Our previous set is getting some saggy butt holes in the load bearing areas so these will be pressed into service when Gin and Tonic season hits.
Yet another cast iron skillet, this one a somewhat old wagner 10.5 inch. Probably to be traded for something as we already have one this size. Pictured after a good wirebrushing, acid treatment and recuring.
Four USB keyboards, three of which were Mac knockoff style. These are very handy when selling off surplus iMacs, for example. And only this morning we were remarking on our current deficit in this type of item. How fortuitous. Three shown here in the pic:
Somebody tossed their pipe-fitting kit. I left the pipe threader (too primitive and rusty) and made off with the nice Ridgid Chain wrench, seen here before cleanup:
In addition I picked up their pipe vise, after a swift cleanup they both worked fine, vise seen here:
Yet another cast iron pan, corrugated base even. This one has made its way to the house next door after testing and curing. No pic, but you know what it look like after the last one, see below.
A large selection of iMacs, cast off from some very well know TV show production crew. HDs wiped (kudos to them) but many (variously) functional machines present, one example shown booted and running:
A Seca medical/bathroom style scale that seems to work and is fairly nice. This will henceforth be employed for ebay shipping weight determination and for assessing the mass of people as we did not, prior to this point, have such a device.
One nice white Mac keyboard. Previous owner stated that spillage of noxious acidic corn sugar laden liquid had terminated functionality of said device.
Quick cleanup and it worked fine, the one it replaced being genuine Apple (but without the numpad keys) it went to see Mr Ebay and returned useful cash.
Four stainless steel 40 pint soda kegs. I am not sure what you can do to make these things really useful (i.e. how you can use them for beer) but we shall see. Pic of one of them here about to celebrate new year:
Fine stuff.
A very silly looking iBook 500Mhz box complete with styrofoam inserts and cardboard. There is no iBook inside of course but the idiocy of Mac users guarantees a return for the small investment of picking it up and carrying it home.
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