Today's junkyard find.

[Kbeitz]

I think what you are trying to say is potential relay, it takes the place of the centrifugal starting switch. Yes you can also use a time delay relay. Both can be found on Ebay.    Muggs

When replacing ... is it one size fits all or are they sized to fit the motor?

[muggs]

Kbeitz  There are several sizes designed to open the the circuit at a certain voltage and disconnect the start winding. Steveco is one brand.    Muggs

[Kbeitz]

Kbeitz  There are several sizes designed to open the the circuit at a certain voltage and disconnect the start winding. Steveco is one brand.    Muggs

Thanks...

[Kbeitz]

I got a nice old 3500 watt generator from the yard today. I bench tested it and it works great.
I like this style to mount on the front of a garden tractor.
I also go a new chainsaw chain.
A couple 4 wheelers came in and one had a new carburetor on it.



 



 



 

[Kbeitz]

A neat story about my trip to the yard yesterday.
I found a very large avenger tripod in the junk.
I was going to buy it and I was sitting in the office
talking about it and I decided to google it on my
phone. The picture is what I found. After I showed
it to the owner he decided that he wanted to keep it.
I don;t blame him. The things people throw away...
So I did not get to bring this home.



 

[Ox]

What's it used for?

[grouch]

Prices like that are why I built a 20 ft tripod for the end zone camera for the local high school football team. I used thinwall conduit (EMT) for mast, legs and for controlling the tilt of the camera. It withstood all the weather they played in and it withstood the gentle attentions of the gang of over-muscled, hormone-crazed teenagers when they'd load it in the equipment truck and toss a half ton of pads and helmets on it. Cost less than $300, including failed experiments along the way.

[Kbeitz]

What's it used for?

Google says lighting...

[Al_Smith]

If you ever got into an industrial machining facility for the automotive industry and see the millions of dollars that goes out as scrap every month it would astound you .However by creative accounting practices  they probably make money on it taking it off as a loss from profit .

[Crusarius]

I agree. That's where I work. It is saddening how much they throw away every week.

[gww]

Al-smith
Or even more interesting is how things are cut in half or holes poked in them to garrentee that they are scrap.  At least in the automotive industery which is where I did my 30 years of work.
Cheers
gww

[Kbeitz]

When I was younger I would go to the collage dump a few miles from here.
I got tons of good stuff until someone found out I was putting things back
together and using the stuff. Then they would smash everything before dumping
it. Good while it lasted. I have about 19 junkyard within 20 miles of my home
but I only go to one all the time and another about twice a year. Some junkyard
owners think there junk is GOLD... Others don't care.

[gww]

When I was young say before eleven, we lived in town and they had a town dump.  I remember having a great time there looking for treasures.
Cheers
gww

[Al_Smith]

The "cash for clunkers" deal pretty much eliminated many salvage yards in this area plus China  trying corner the market on scrap metal .
They would load old cargo ships about to the water line  and try to make one more run across the Pacific .I can't help but wonder how many are on the bottom .
National Geographic showed them cutting up scrap,ship and all in India with men with 4 feet salvage torches in loin cloths and bare footed .
Who knows maybe a fender from a 1948 Cadillac is now a hood on a Honda or a cylinder liner on a Ford .Might be a nail in a house in California for all I know .

[Peter Drouin]

Got a tool box on wheels, and cast bench ends too.


  

  

[Papa1stuff]

ok ok you guys are making me cry ,I used to dumpster dive but to Dang old to do it any more :( :( :( :(

[Kbeitz]

ok ok you guys are making me cry ,I used to dumpster dive but to Dang old to do it any more :( :( :( :(

Never... I got a few years on you....

[petefrom bearswamp]

at my advancing years if I dove I probably would end up in the landfill

[coxy]

at my advancing years if I dove I probably would end up in the landfill

:D :D

[Papa1stuff]

ok ok you guys are making me cry ,I used to dumpster dive but to Dang old to do it any more :( :( :( :(

Never... I got a few years on you....

A few years younger 8) 8) only 17 years

[Kbeitz]

I picked up around 100 lbs of nails and spikes today...
New...
There was still a couple 100 lbs there to be had.
I guess if you can't put them on a nail gun people wont use them.

[Larry]

I made a visit to the junkyard yesterday.  Picked up about 20' of two different kinds of 80/20 aluminum extrusions.  I can always find a use for that stuff.

I had a request for a 3 hp electric motor.  Found one in the motor pile and made $70 off that so it paid for my extrusions plus.  The motor pile is a money maker for somebody......

Saw about 10 chainsaws, they were all old or home owner types.  Projects is not something I need.  I thought it interesting a medium size Suzuki motorcycle that looked to be in too good of condition for the yard.

Got a couple of grader blades.  I can use them too recondition/modify backhoe buckets.

It is amazing what is thrown away sometimes.

[Kbeitz]

I always watch for the bigger electric motors in single phase.
Anything around 5hp is money in your pocket. I smell them.
If they don't stink I can most of the time fix them if they need it.
Most of the time there is nothing wrong with them I don't touch
the 3 phase stuff. You can't give that stuff away. Right now there
is a 500hp new looking motor sitting in the yard. I bet thats more
than a 1/2ton pickup could handle in weight.

[Kbeitz]

I found 3 nice wood clamps today at the yard and a 12volt air compressor that works great.
I also found a banding tool. I know some banding tools are expensive but this is ridiculous.
This is what there asking on E-bay for a tool like what I found.



 

[Al_Smith]

More times than not single phase motors get scrapped because the start capacitor is defective or the start switch has faulted .Generally speaking both are an easy fix .A burned out start winding not an easy fix .Leave those in the pile and walk on .