[TheForge] Dumpster Find

Fri Aug 1 01:26:02 2003

ARGH!!! (primal scream of scrounge envy)

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.

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Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:55 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Dumpster Find

> On the way over to visit my dad in the hospital, I drove past a large 
> construction dumpster filled with older electric wheelchairs in various 
> states of disrepair.  They had several scooters and a couple of 
> wheelchair lifts that fit into a hitch receiver.   Several small cranes 
> for hoisting and swinging people into and out of tubs/vehicles made from 
> stainless.  Lots of high torque dc motors, linear actuators.  No way I 
> could get it all in the vehicle I was driving today.   A lot of mental 
> gymnastics trying to get a balanced load.  Balanced here has nothing to 
> do with vehicle dynamics, more balanced between what I know I can sneak 
> into the garage without my wife realizing it, and those large items 
> that  are really cool, but will draw immediate  scrutiny and  require 
> justifications I haven't even invented yet.   Had to leave behind a 
> really high end excercycle that I would have loved to set up as a 
> grinding wheel ( I have made a couple of these now).   Anyway a good 
> haul.     
> 
> 
> Charles
> 
> 
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