Dumpster diving/share your treasures - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Atomic
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: July 31, 2015, 12:29:55 pm
content: Just watched a bunch of EEV dumpster diving vlogs so I thought, why not have my own experience here.So I would like to know what do you guys find from the dumpsters (electronics please) and tell if they were broken or how did u fix em. I shall share my stuff here too, please add some pictures with your posts!Okay, so I will start with my latest stuff:B&W 601 S2speakers x4 - One main element was broken, so only left with 3 working speakers, gonna sell em!ASUS Nexus 7tablet - Works great! Has a 1 dead pixel line to the halfway of the screen that will mostly show up on white screen. It has Android 5.1.1 lollipop on it too!PS3, CECHC04- had YLOD and bluray drive was stuck. Fixed the YLOD with heatgun and unstuck the bluray drive. It plays PS1, PS2 and PS3 games, hurray! And it has somekind of sd card readers and 4 usb portsPS1- havent tested out yetFalcon casewithintel i5andASUS GTX 580- gonna build a computer for mom(I dont have them here atm so I couldn't get pics, sorry)

author: MrMetthew
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 11, 2015, 09:36:20 pm
content: Awesome! Where did you dumpsterdive?

author: Atomic
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: August 12, 2015, 06:52:30 am
content: Quote from: MrMetthew on August 11, 2015, 09:36:20 pmFrom our local junkyard! There is a selfservice system so you can make a little bit ''trading'' (Old stuff away, new stuff with you)

author: nfmax
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 12, 2015, 12:47:22 pm
content: Just bagged a workbench - chuckout at work. Nice metal frame, plywood top, 1500L x 600W x 860H with metal under-shelf. VGC.

author: MikeW
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 12, 2015, 01:01:03 pm
content: Quote from: Atomic on August 12, 2015, 06:52:30 amMy nearest recycling centre/dump won't let you take away anything electrical unfortunately

author: Atomic
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: August 12, 2015, 05:29:31 pm
content: Quote from: MikeW on August 12, 2015, 01:01:03 pmow, it's kinda stupid that they wont allow 'recycling'

author: dave_k
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 12, 2015, 11:08:40 pm
content: I just acquired 4 Tek 7000 series scopes .. a pair of 7603's and a pair of 7613's.

author: Atomic
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: August 12, 2015, 11:15:17 pm
content: Quote from: dave_k on August 12, 2015, 11:08:40 pmPics or didnt happen! Kidding, hope you could add some tho!

author: Atomic
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: August 12, 2015, 11:23:12 pm
content: Quote from: nfmax on August 12, 2015, 12:47:22 pmPics!!

author: dexters_lab
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 13, 2015, 06:46:17 pm
content: treasure? lol i have no idea why i saved these from a skip today!it was full of similar items including amps, tape decks, portable cassette players, tuners, video recorders etc... there was more possible interesting items deeper down but they were buried under a photocopier!

author: Atomic
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: August 13, 2015, 06:57:33 pm
content: Quote from: dexters_lab on August 13, 2015, 06:46:17 pmsweet! do they work?

author: dexters_lab
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 13, 2015, 10:00:43 pm
content: Quote from: Atomic on August 13, 2015, 06:57:33 pmdunno, not tried them, the tuner wants 18v AC, but there is a bridge rectifier and a 7812 in there so will try it on my psunice ps3 you have there, 1st gen with the card readers

author: rsjsouza
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 14, 2015, 03:01:40 pm
content: I got a Manson P912 Power Supply... Proofhere.

author: Atomic
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 01:58:05 pm
content: Long time no replies, I sold the working speaker pair with 150e and got 15e from the PS1. The PS3 is now in my livingroom and working perfectly! I don't use the tablet so much so i could sell it to someone. I will try to go 'shopping' again at saturday, so we'll see if I find anything good

author: FireFlower
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 02:57:44 pm
content: University's club dumspter diving results from this year:

author: rsjsouza
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 04:18:46 pm
content: I don't have a picture at the moment, but I scored a working Tektronix P6139A oscilloscope probe, together with a few 50 ohm BNC-BNC cables.

author: Mashpriborintorg
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 07:12:00 pm
content: Meanwhile, in Russia, dumpster diving brings all flavours of stuff, even space-grade electronics....http://offtop.ru/dustyattic/v1_706616__.php

author: mojoe
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 16, 2015, 10:52:34 pm
content: A few years ago, a friend was throwing out three Samsung 21" widescreen LCD monitors at his work. I took them home and found the usual bulging caps in the power supplies. After spending $11 for Panasonic caps from Mouser and a little of my time, I had two working monitors. The third one had a bad LCD panel, so I pulled the (now repaired) power supply and controller boards to keep as spares and tossed the rest. I am still using the two repaired monitors at home to this day.

author: Synthetase
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 24, 2015, 06:23:00 am
content: I found a 24" Dell 2407WFP monitor next to the bins in my building at work a little while ago. I grabbed it, expecting it to have bulgy PSU caps, but it didn't. Absolutely nothing wrong with it at all! No idea why they were throwing it out, but it goes very nicely with my main Dell 2408WFPI also scored a couple of electrophoresis power supplies. For those who don't know electrophoresis is a technique for separating DNA molecules by size. This is typically done using high voltage. One of these power supplies was made in the late 70s and goes to over 300V. The only thing wrong? Blown mains fuse, probably due to lots of thermal cycling as there were no issues in the rest of the circuit. Great, now I have a power supply for playing with valves (tubes). I will post tear-down photos of the 70s unit on the forum at some point next year. This thing is such a beautiful piece of engineering. They don't make them like this any more.