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Spent last weekend clearing out my late aunty's house in the Cotswolds. The buyers were forcing the pace as they were keen to get in. All charity shops are shut and despite our best efforts, lots of nice stuff simply had to be skipped.
Really sad but no alternative.
Apart from loads of good firewood, I've had loads of stuff like 1930's art deco leathercloth armchairs, a 1960's red telephone, an Overwater bass made for the ILEA, a Linn Sonndek (must get that serviced) and a pair of 1950's stick mercury barometers.
People are weird in throwing perfectly serviceable stuff away... hate that, so if I see it, I'll rescue it
One thing ive learnt about "coming back later" to a skip is that either it will have been removed to be empty'ed or someone not silly enough to think about returning would have taken just the thing i wanted
I did not realise that the Colt 40 is a keyboard amp, that did not matter as it did not work when plugged in. But it did work when a source was plugged in to the FX return socket. The experts on tFB suggested that I bridge the FX send and return with a pedalboard patch cable. That solved the problem.
It was, and will be used again, as our family get together musical evening PA amp. Perfect for what is required. Cost nothing. It's 'for sale' value is practically nothing but when paired with a basic Behringer mixer and three T Bone microphones (from Thomann), it provides so much enjoyment and encourages people to sing, it is way beyond any monetary value.
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
It worked and he advertised it in his local paper.
He got about 20 phone calls and thought hmmm there is a market here.
Started contacting companies and asking to buy their old printers and pcs.
That led on to selling new consumables to go with them.
8 years later sold the company for about 10 million.
Waited 2 years until he was out of contractual obligations and started up again. Few years latter that one sold for £40 million.
A bit of skip diving and an entrepreneurial mindset can be worth a lot of money.