| Jul. 3rd, 2008 @ 08:26 pm The perks of dumpster diving |
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It's amazing what people throw out. I've lost track of the number of monitors, computers and printers that were sufficiently useable to be worth lugging them home. Bicycles are popular too, although occasionally you need to find two to yield one. On the other end of that scale, in the case of the rather unlovingly treated luxury bicycle thrown against our fence, unlocked, keys and all, it was simply a matter of replacing the frayed rear brake cable so that the rear brake would actually release once you stopped squeezing the brake lever. After that, putting a new saddle on, fixing the front light bracket and properly fastening the chain guard with screws instead of packing tape were the only major cosmetics needed.
The latest score: two flatscreen monitors. Two not at all crappy flatscreen monitors. Two Eizo flatscreen monitors, 17", identical, two years old, and in working condition. It was just that they had a couple of vertical lines in the display. Well, no big deal using them on my workbench with that fault.
Today they arrived back from the repair center, as Eizo offers five years warranty, and I had politely inquired whether the screens would be covered. Sure, they said, and two days later UPS came to pick them up. So now I have two pretty damn nice, flawless, 17" flatscreen monitors that can serve a better purpose than occasional test use. For nothing more than the effort of spotting them in a dumpster and taking them with me. |
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