One man's trash.......

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jos51700 said:
I scored a fan just like OP's from a local university. OP scored big, those fans are great because they'll cool you when you're standing.

When I see tossed residential furnaces, I grab those squirrel cage fans. NOTHING moves more air for the size, and they're great if you're in a hot garage under a car, because the dirt that falls doesn't land on you, it blows away. Tilt em back a little and they'll blow a ton of air up your shorts, which has multiple benefits. Wire em up right, and you can even select speeds on some of em.
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An A/C guy I'm friends with mounted an old A/C squirrel cage blower in the ceiling of his garage with a thermostat attached, and put intake vents in his garage door. It draws cooler garage air into the attic and pushes it out through the gable vents. We get 100° summer days which makes it 140°+ in an attic. Any time you can draw cooler air up into the attic in the summer the better off you are.
 
jos51700 said:
I scored a fan just like OP's from a local university. OP scored big, those fans are great because they'll cool you when you're standing.

When I see tossed residential furnaces, I grab those squirrel cage fans. NOTHING moves more air for the size, and they're great if you're in a hot garage under a car, because the dirt that falls doesn't land on you, it blows away. Tilt em back a little and they'll blow a ton of air up your shorts, which has multiple benefits. Wire em up right, and you can even select speeds on some of em.
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My shop fan came out of a dumpster at the McDonald Douglas fighter jet plant in St Louis. A buddy of mine snagged 3 of them, nothing wrong with any of them. Just plugged it in and turned it on.
 
512Stroker said:
My shop fan came out of a dumpster at the McDonald Douglas fighter jet plant in St Louis. A buddy of mine snagged 3 of them, nothing wrong with any of them. Just plugged it in and turned it on.
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I love hearing about these things. I'm surprised the Chinese spy digging for top secret proprietary documents didn't snag them first!
 
It’s not just fans out in the trash that can be salvaged for a little effort.

My neighbor put a solar bird bath out for trash a couple of days ago. I asked him why he was tossing it. “The basin leaks and the pump stopped pumping.” was his reason.

Hmmm...I took it home and found a small crack in the basin that I sealed up with a little silicone caulk. Then I took the solar pump apart and cleaned it. Works fine now, just needed a little work.

And now we have a nice solar bird bath fountain that cost $60 new for just a few cents worth of caulk and a half hour labor. The fountain flow is low in this pic since it is in the shade late in the day. It’s a 10” tall fountain in full sun. My wife is happy to have it in our garden now.

His trash is now our treasure...with just a little effort.

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Ddaddy said:
It’s not just fans out in the trash that can be salvaged for a little effort.

My neighbor put a solar bird bath out for trash a couple of days ago. I asked him why he was tossing it. “The basin leaks and the pump stopped pumping.” was his reason.

Hmmm...I took it home and found a small crack in the basin that I sealed up with a little silicone caulk. Then I took the solar pump apart and cleaned it. Works fine now, just needed a little work.

And now we have a nice solar bird bath fountain that cost $60 new for just a few cents worth of caulk and a half hour labor. The fountain flow is low in this pic since it is in the shade late in the day. It’s a 10” tall fountain in full sun. My wife is happy to have it in our garden now.

His trash is now our treasure...with just a little effort.

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I am a trash picker as well. A lot of times its scrap steel to toss on my scrap trailer, but sometimes its other good stuff. I got a milwaukee electric 3/4" impact and the square drive is broken off. I got a new drive on order, and will repair it.totally free except for the replacement part.
 
Last year, my wife and I collected 17 kids bicycles, 6 tricycles and 4 baby carriages from the trash around our township. Most needed very little work and were like new other than some minor repairs required.

We fixed them all, cleaned them up and donated them to a local church charity to be given to needing families that might not otherwise be able to afford them. I took a small tax deduction for the donation that covered my costs...nothing more.

I look at it as recycling at its finest and making people happy to get what they might otherwise not be able to give to their children.

Every kid deserves a bike to call their own, and parents deserve a decent baby carriage to take their child out into the World.
 
My kids never had new bikes. Always something we got from somebody or somewhere and needed tires and a little TLC. They didn't care.

When my youngest was about 13, I came home from a dump run with a really nice stunt type bike that someone had tossed. Just handed it to him and told him to tell me what it needs and we'll go get it. He fixed it and had a ball with it.
 
That big box fan I got, a buddy of mine asked me if I was gonna take it apart and restore it LoL. I told him the motor is rebuilt, theres a new fan belt, new plug end on the cord, and the fan shaft bearings are greased up. How much more restored does it need. I'm not disassembling, sanding and repainting if that's what he meant. Maybe some day, but right now, I have too much other stuff that requires my time.
 
I'm a big fan of big fans.

But ... fans or swamp coolers can't cure Florida swamp *** unless you work in the shop 'buck ***' naked.
And who the **** wants to see that... ?

"Drain the Swamp"
 
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