Yes, dumpster diving is good for you.. Other than all those great things you can find, mind you I ONLY take electronics, can't be bothered with the rest, you once in a while happen upon a great piece of gear.. Today I found a Yamaha G100-212 II in great condition.. Not my picture thou.. My camera is dead..
Yes I know.. But I tell you, this thing is one heavy motherf*cker.. 50 kg I guess.. And those little wheels underneath SUCKS, even on good tarmac.. Yes, I had to lug that bitch home on the bus.. No fun. But the sound of it, oh my, it's so good. Totally worth it :!: I'm thinking about removing the 2 channel reverb tank from it, and rehouse it on it's own, but I'm not sure. Anyways, if there's an interest I can try and borrow a cam from a friend, and snap some pics of some other nice dumpster finds, that I haven't sold/traded..
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Yep, I'd love to see what else you've un-earthed.
Yamaha PSR-150.. Crap keyboard, but meh, interresting sounds..
Offcause I forgot to snap some pics of the rest of the stuff lol... Anyways I'm in the progress of moving so I'm unsure how much I can actually find..
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Yep, I'd love to see what else you've un-earthed.
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Ahh, finally.. Pictures! Since it's about 2 months :shock: since I started this thread, and not much update, I can tell you your in for a little treat of dumpster found treasure..!
I have been so fortunate to find a Sony Ericsson K810i cell phone, on the middle of a street, not in a dumpster mind you, and the camera on the phone is 3,2 MP so good enough for snapping pictures of gear I guess.. Anyays, this is still not all, as I haven't unpacked my stuff yet..
The first step in the becomming of the FRANKENSTICK :twisted: Wich offcause will be an abnouxious noise generator! The reason for the frankenstick is that the grey joystick has the best handle with 5 switches an 2 LED, but the movement is switch based. The Saitek ST50 is resistance based.. So they were merged togheter.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/26039450@N08/2766079877/
My main guitar amp is a WEM Dominator III made in 1972 that i pulled out of a skip / dumpster in perfect working order with all the original valves intact!
In the country i live in, at most appartment complexes your supposed to sort your "big trash," I'm not talking about your everyday garbage here.. In most of the places, this is then put into the basement of the complex, if possible, or in a locked room outside to prevent Dumpster Diving.. When you live in the same city for many years, you start figguring out where they don't lock the trash inside something or where you can just jump a wall or something..
Theres the regular categories to sort it by.. Wood/chemicals/metal and so on and so forth.. And then theres electronics.. And all the electronics is being gathered by one company, so they have them in metal "net" cages.. So I guess I'm "browsing" more than any actual diving.. Also then there's offcause your regular "dump" or whatever, and they have the metal net cages too.. So when I'm out there to thrash some stuff, I usually very conviniently carry a big cardboard box with something that has to be thrown out, very conviniently close to the electronics... So when the dude is not looking im digging in, for the stuff I spottet a few minutes earlier and very conviniently "drop" it into the box... BTW. DON'T get caught doing that!
Uhh, maybe I should make a video of me "browsing" for electronics..
Where I live (Melbourne, Australia), we have this thing called Hard Rubbish.
Twice a year, at different times the local councils will have hard rubbish collection which means that any house is welcome to dump all the things that don't fit into bins- tables, chairs, electronic/white goods, beds, computers etc. on the pavement outside of your house. It lasts for two weeks, and then a truck will come along and pick everything up.
I've found an Antonellli Organ and a Korg A5 guitar multl-fx) both less than 100 minutes from my front door (Thanks neighbours!), tonnes of childrens keyboards (various Casio and unnamed things) and lots of other stuff. My MIDI controller is a Casio EDP electric piano. And i've found tonnes of other stuff. TV's, stereos, turntables, lots of things.
Hard Rubbish is where students get all their washing machines. It's great.
We used to have Heavy Item Pickup where I live (US, east coast) until just recently. Unfortunately this year was the last year and I didn't find too much. In the past I've turned up some lovely typewriters.
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But I tell you, this thing is one heavy motherf*cker.. 50 kg I guess.. And those little wheels underneath SUCKS, even on good tarmac.. Yes, I had to lug that bitch home on the bus.. No fun. But the sound of it, oh my, it's so good. Totally worth it :!: I'm thinking about removing the 2 channel reverb tank from it, and rehouse it on it's own, but I'm not sure.
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BTW. DON'T get caught doing that! 