WHY do people do this??

[YamahaFreak]

I'd imagine the copper in a four-foot-long stranded power cable is worth such a trivial amount of money (as is the yoke!) that people wouldn't bother...this whole scrapping thing really has gotten way out of hand IMO. I can remember five years ago it didn't exist at all. Now we have trucks and vans driving down our street at all hours of Monday and Thursday nights. I'm very lucky if I get to save anything now. FWIW I'd rather these things fixed up and sold or given to people that can use them, instead of being completely destroyed for at most a couple dollars. >_<

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by YamahaFreak

I'd imagine the copper in a four-foot-long stranded power cable is worth such a trivial amount of money (as is the yoke!) that people wouldn't bother...this whole scrapping thing really has gotten way out of hand IMO. I can remember five years ago it didn't exist at all. Now we have trucks and vans driving down our street at all hours of Monday and Thursday nights. I'm very lucky if I get to save anything now. FWIW I'd rather these things fixed up and sold or given to people that can use them, instead of being completely destroyed for at most a couple dollars. >_<

Yup, as soon as I saw an older clothes dryer that I thought to be worth saving, I started dragging it. I wouldn't leave it long enough to go home for my dolly, which was fairly nearby. I knew from experience that a scrapper would have it before I got back. I was going to hide it and then get my dolly, but then I was offered help. The rear feet were destroyed from grinding on the concrete, but they're just specialized bolts, gone now.

Hey, it was free.

[YamahaFreak]

You should have seen me last week, toting an RCA D52W19 rear-projection HDTV over a mile from the thrift store dumpster to my house...on a modified wagon. :P

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by YamahaFreak

You should have seen me last week, toting an RCA D52W19 rear-projection HDTV over a mile from the thrift store dumpster to my house...on a modified wagon. :P

The said dolly also brought home a junker Hitachi console TV over 4 1/2 miles. Good for parts at least I figured, mainly the delta-gun CRT. I did part it out once I discovered that someone had severed and spliced the HV 2nd anode wire. Two days ago the stored 25VCXP22 was hit from the back by a falling small plant pot; lucky for me it was the pot that broke, I was standing directly over the thing. No more careless storage of small, hard items.

[TheNLOwner]

My grandfather did this to the devices he gave to me. Why? He didn't even know. Oh well, that MiniDisc player is up and running once again.