Re: The stuff people throw out

Handbrake turns come in handy..

Jason

We are having that in our area this week too, one every 6 months.
CRT Monitors and TVs are all the rage, literally every 2nd or 3rd house
has a monitor or TV out the front. Big plamsa TV boxes are popular too,
almost to the point that it's a status symbol to proudy display the box
for your new TV out the front!

We had two people drive down our very private cul-de-sac (which
normally gets zero traffic) canvassing the junk. Looks like they go
street by street searching.

I tried to get a monitor last clean-up day, but by the time I went 100m
down the road to turn around and come back, someone had already stopped
and nabbed it!

Dave :)

We had our annaul council clean-up. Anyway a lot of "exchanging" or "thanx
for that" goes on. There are even professional junk collectors and
auction-junkies who look for saleable items,usually furniture...but to the
point. I noticed people this year are tossing a lot of TVs out, a trend
since cheap conventional TVs have become available for under $150 in some
cases for a circa 48cm set.

I struck it lucky,..one pile had a 48cm Sharp Linytron TV in a large cabinet
(weighed a ton, despite being live chasiss) and a Sharp stereo VCR with aux
inputs for mikes and a level led bar meter. Got the 'prizes' home and they
both work.

OK the TV was sagging a bit in the colour department, but it has no other
probs. I think what happened was the previous owner probably bought a UHF
only set, and the VCR being VHF out only, was nigh-near useless.

Jason