On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 23:51:24 -0400, micky posted for all of us to digest...

Coffee makers. I forgot about all the coffee makers, maybe 10 of them,
all different designs, all or most with timers. I had to buy coffee
and filters to check if they worked.

Then I gave away some, to anyone I knew who might drink coffee, and
saved one in case I had a party. I did have a party but I didn't serve
coffee.


A couple clothes irons, with teflon bottoms, better than the one I had
paid for. One was smaller than average, good to travel with, if I ever
actually ironed anything anymore.


A couple things, especially coffee makers, had blown thermal fuses and I
found for sale a card with about 8 thermal fuses on it of different
sizes, but a) I didn't know what temp fuse had blown (the heat ruined
the writing on it), b) Maybe I didn't know what temp each of the new
fuses were, c) They are always crimped in, and I didn't know how to
crimp well enough with something small. I assume soldering would have
blown the fuse.


I think I've still left out a few things, like some kind of toaster
oven.

In NYC I found this beautiful electrric rotisserie on the top of a
dumpster. Complete with everything, including racks and probably the
spit, except 2 knobs. Well, I might have bought a spit. I took knobs
off a scrap TV. The roasts it made were so delicious, so perfect, so
uniform, so juicy. Unfortunately it's about 16" wide, 14" deep, and
14" tall, not even counting the spit that sticks out 5 more inches, and
if I put it on the counter, I have no room for other things. It has a
warming tray on top too, but I've not used that.

I also found an electric wheel chair next to a dumpster next to an
apartment building only 200 yards from my home. I think a few times I
had seen the guy who used it, sitting outside enjoying the sunlight and
talking to another guy with some physical handicap. Battery still
charged. I rode it home. (Too hard to push it, or even to stand next
to it and move it with the joystick. I kept tripping on it until I
actually sat in it. This is not one of those little scooter gizmos they
advertise on tv, but a heavy, full size, steel, wheelchair.)

I called a guy I knew of from the newspaper who owned a medical supply
business,and he came over to see it. He said even in the condition it
was in, used, some worn out foam rubber on the arms, that can be
replaced, it was worth $1000. My biggest find yet, by far. (Makes a
coffee maker look like small potatoes) I gave it to the Multiple
Sclerosis society (or Muscular Dystrophy. I get them mixed up.). They
came and got it, and they lend it for no charge to someone who needs it.
At the same time I had found a rack, part of which goes under a bed and
part hangs over a bed, used by people who can't otherwise sit up in bed
or get out of bad. Clearly the same guy who used the wheel chair. They
took that too.

I think what happened was that the guy died and the cleaning crew just
threw it away. My parents taught me not to throw good things away.

My mother didn't have any major handicaps, and she lived on her own, but
she had a cane, a walker, a grab bar screwed to the wall next to the
bathtub, another that clamped to the side of the bathtub, a seat for the
bathtub iirc, a "Clapper" (that she actually liked iirc) and maybe some
things I forget. When she died at age 88, I gave them all to a guy who
would then give them to people who needed them. His basement had a
bunch of stuff like that.



Good for you Micky, people need that stuff. I know at the ambulance we had a
collection of used equipment that people gave us when they were well.

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Tekkie