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How far would you go to save a miggy?
« on: May 13, 2008, 04:04:42 PM »
Heh, sigh. Just been to the local tip and saw an A500 (box) under a spin dryer in one of the skips. :boohoo:

Just wondering how far anyone here might go to save a miggy from the grim reaper :devildance: ? E.g., how bigger a skip would anyone be prepared to salvage miggies from? Which miggies would you be prepared to salvage? Under what conditions?

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Re: How far would you go to save a miggy?
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2008, 06:44:14 PM »
Thanks for the insight!

The A500 I saw was at the local tip (E.g., A place for disposing of stuff larger than will fit in the average dustbin/Garbage can). It was right at the bottom of, well, it’s not a skip, more like a reinforced articulated lorry back with the top removed kinda size. You get the idea, eg, you’d have to jump in and get a rope ladder to get out again. There was a really nice looking audio amp kinda gizmo in there to, but unfortunately the situation goes way beyond what im prepared to do. If the thing had been full, maybe the stuff could have been pulled of the top, but at the time it was only just 1/4 full.

I limit myself (Active thought required here…) to what I can reach, drag, grab, or rummage safely from the edge of whatever it’s in.

And, as you folks mentioned, there was no guarantee there was even a A500 in there, and if there was, the way the dryer must have landed would have destroyed a good chunk of the left side of the case. :madashell:
Getting them before they go to these places still beats the hell out of routing for somthing, though :-D

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Re: How far would you go to save a miggy?
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2008, 06:59:36 PM »
More or less what I'd do, or at least be thinking  :-D
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Re: How far would you go to save a miggy?
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2008, 07:02:38 PM »
 :-D Grins :crazy:

Yeah, but there could of been no A500 there at all, just packaging (Actually it looked kinda flattened, so thats what I assumed).
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Re: How far would you go to save a miggy?
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2008, 07:05:20 PM »
 :bow:  :laughing:
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Re: How far would you go to save a miggy?
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2008, 05:37:17 PM »
Well, I've fished out, amongst other things, USB Zip drives, RF Amplifiers, Camera PSUs, a few fully working Macs (One with a 68LC040), an Xfade LMX-907R Preamp mixer, dot-matrix colour printer, 100ft of high quality stereo stage audio cable and enough fluro light fittings to do up our garage with... And that was all out of one particular skip that kept on re-appearing over the years :crazy:

Must be a TARDIS skip...What with all the modern tech and all :lol:

Live in hope that I'll manage to save a miggy some day, though.
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