Dumpster finds

[VintagePC]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Another possibility is putting the cabinets in a large vacuum chamber. Some Taxidermy shops have them and use them to remove moisture from a critter to preserve the whole thing instead of skinning it and stuffing it. Same process is used to de-acidify rare books made with acidic paper(the acids of which tend to dissolve the paper over time thus ruining the book).

Unfortunately by doing that you run the risk of having the urea crystallize, and unless you find some way to seal out moisture permanently, the smell will eventually come back as things rehydrate from natural humidity.

[zenith2134]

Over where I live, the crazy cat people have got an early-'80s RCA 19" they refuse to sell. They're my 'friends', since I helped them sell their car.
It was on a shelf stashed with other stuff in storage but I remember seeing it with a good pic years ago. Probably a 1982ish colortrak with the primitive OSD, from what I recall.. No tuning dial on this one. Reminded me of my CTC117/model FJR478WR from 1983.
He was like, make an offer. So I did and he turned down 5 dollars to drag it out and test/look at it.
I told him I would buy the set untested for 15$ and he said to come back. Dodged my calls 3 times, so I have given up. This was about 4 months ago.

[wa2ise]

don't try it at home, kids

[Eric H]

You really shouldn't mix Bleach with Ammonia, or much of anything other than water really, very nasty things can happen. Even plain Bleach is pretty nasty if you breath the fumes.

http://chemistry.about.com/od/toxicc...nd-Ammonia.htm

[Jon A.]

Oh yeah, there are washers here that have a warning saying that mixing those will produce a toxic gas.

Originally Posted by zenith2134

Over where I live, the crazy cat people have got an early-'80s RCA 19" they refuse to sell. They're my 'friends', since I helped them sell their car.
It was on a shelf stashed with other stuff in storage but I remember seeing it with a good pic years ago. Probably a 1982ish colortrak with the primitive OSD, from what I recall.. No tuning dial on this one. Reminded me of my CTC117/model FJR478WR from 1983.
He was like, make an offer. So I did and he turned down 5 dollars to drag it out and test/look at it.
I told him I would buy the set untested for 15$ and he said to come back. Dodged my calls 3 times, so I have given up. This was about 4 months ago.

Almost the same model number as my '82 with LED channel readout, mine starts with FG.

[VintagePC]

Originally Posted by Eric H

You really shouldn't mix Bleach with Ammonia, or much of anything other than water really, very nasty things can happen. Even plain Bleach is pretty nasty if you breath the fumes.

http://chemistry.about.com/od/toxicc...nd-Ammonia.htm

This x1000. Not only is the chloramine toxic, the chlorine gas itself is hazardous, and it doesn't take much to do damage. If you breathe it in/get it in your eyes it will react with the moisture in your cells and form acids. IIRC about 30 ppm is enough to do lasting damage.

Can an admin maybe edit out that post? Don't want a naieve person reading that without the rest of the thread and trying it.