[TheForge] Dumpster Find

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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