[Milsurplus] Military Radios - LA County Estate - auction or scrap?

[Peter Gottlieb]

That happens all the time with electronic equipment and machine tool shops.  Why 
aren't there mandatory re-use laws instead of ones which trigger people's CYA 
reflexes?


On 8/11/2018 5:44 PM, Joe Connor via Milsurplus wrote:
> Here's why I made the point about legal requirements for disposition. Just 
> before I retired from the county prosecutor's office, the local law library 
> (run by the state judiciary) was being closed. We could have used some of the 
> hard-to-find out-of-print books from that library and would have gladly given 
> them a new home. The head judge, however, was a brainless bureaucrat. He was 
> so paranoid about violating state bidding laws that he had all those books put 
> in a dumpster rather than let us put them to good use. He even refused to give 
> us a heads-up on when they were going into the dumpster so we could just 
> coincidentally happen by and "find" them. It still pisses me off.
>
>
>                             Joe Connor
>
> On Saturday, August 11, 2018, 5:30:09 PM EDT, Robert Meadows 
> <rpmeadow at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>
> I think a few folk missed the note, this is part of an estate that the County 
> has a duty to dispose of properly.
>
> Therefore, someone out there on the left coast should just go and make an 
> offer, a reasonable offer to clear the estate.
>
> Otherwise is there an honest fellow out there with sufficient knowledge to 
> evaluate and advise proper value?
>
> Better to assist and get the gear to new and good homes than to see it sent to 
> the junk pile.
>
> R
>
> *From:*milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] *On Behalf Of *Joe Connor via 
> Milsurplus
> *Sent:* Saturday, August 11, 2018 4:31 PM
> *To:* Military Surplus Mail List; Hubert Miller
> *Subject:* Re: [Milsurplus] Military Radios - LA County Estate - auction or scrap?
>
> Since this is a governmental entity, they may not be allowed to simply donate 
> it to a private radio club. Usually, property that a governmental entity wants 
> to dispose of has to be sold at auction to the highest bidder. The only 
> alternative might be the scrap heap. Before anyone tells this guy an auction 
> wouldn't be worth it, we should probably know what the alternative (if any) to 
> an auction is.
>
> Joe Connor
>
> On Saturday, August 11, 2018, 4:00:21 PM EDT, Hubert Miller 
> <Kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:
>
> Considering the amount of chaff to wheat there, it doesn't look to me like an 
> auction would be worth their time at all.
> The HF receivers don't look too bad and deserve to survive. They should just 
> donate the stuff to a local ham radio club
>
> and let the club sign waivers to get the stuff out of there, let the club 
> dispose of it with a percentage to a local charity.
>
> Maybe pluck tubes from the FGC-1 units ? I don't know how hard or easy it is 
> to get rid of old metal chassis etc. I took
>
> some dead recent electronics to a recycling center yesterday and it's a whole 
> new world, the current recycling rules,
>
> particularly so in the smaller locales, where the recyclers apparently are in 
> more of a fix.
>
> -Hue
>
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