Thread: This might make some cry- scrap bin pics

Originally Posted by DSEL74

Bollie where do you work? Not the name of the company but what the company does & in what industry? I was thinking there may be an equivalent company in Melb, that may also turf out bits of Cast like that.

Hunter TAFE. Due to "Smart & Skilled" funding, there has been, and is still ongoing, massive changes in how it works. TAFE Vic, TAS and SA have already been through similar things over the last few years. As a result there have been a lot of job losses in most area's, particularly trades. I've managed to keep a job though I now work for 3 different depts. Student numbers are way down on previous years and I'll be surprised if I still have a job there this time next year. So it goes.
Some campuses have lost their trade areas entirely. So they have been doing a lot of re-organising in the trade area's. F&M in particular. Bringing the best machines etc to one campus. All this stuff chucked out would have been old stock brought in for specific machining exercises years ago. With the re- organisation I guess they just dont have the room for it. I dont know whats happened to any surplus machines but I'd think they would have been sent off for auction.
bollie7

Originally Posted by kwijibo99

G'day Bollie,
I'll put my hand up to help you get rid of some of your old BSF sizes, I'm using 5/16, 1/4 and probably smaller on my model engine and most fastener places don't stock them any more. I might also be interested in buying some of your brass ones too.
I can send you a pre-paid satchel or two if you wouldn't mind posting them down.
Cheers,
Greg

Greg
No problem, wont be for a few weeks though as I reckon its best to sort through all the trays etc first and see what I end up with. I really dont want to scrap anything that might be useful to someone else. i've just go to keep the enthusiasm going.

bollie7

Bollie, your situation is amazingly similar to mine in one of the Victorian TAFE's, including being told that I was no longer required after the closure of my department last year and then being offered a role across three departments, which I gladly accepted.

Those usable cast iron off cuts would never be found in our scrap bin, we go through a few meters of that each year at a cost of around $250.00 per meter.

Here in the UK those chunks of cast would sell for more than £10 or £12 pounds each. I purchased a 12 inch length of cast bar 60 mm in diameter from a stockist and it cost me £28. I searched the local scrapyard high and low without finding what I wanted. Having said that, 12, 14, 16 and 20 inch diameter bar weights abound.

Originally Posted by Techo1

Bollie, your situation is amazingly similar to mine in one of the Victorian TAFE's, including being told that I was no longer required after the closure of my department last year and then being offered a role across three departments, which I gladly accepted.

Thats almost what happened to me except my dept hasn't closed - yet. My boss of many years and I both had seen the writing on the wall for some time and I had been unofficially doing some work for a couple of other depts. My position was one of the many deleted but after the head teachers of the other depts said they could use me and pay for me, my position was reinstated. I try not to let it bother me anymore. Just wont be taking out a home loan or similar.
So now I work for the Manufacturing dept which includes Manufacturing, Mech Engineering, Engineering Drafting, Materials Technology and Non Destructive Testing
and Maritime Studies and Civil Engineering (mainly surveying).
I know enough about them all to know that I dont know much and enough to be dangerous.

Maritime have a couple of really cool Ships Bridge simulators. The big one has 5 big TV screens (not sure of the size but at least 106cm) plus several std PC monitors. It has 9 high end PC's plus a server to run it. When its running the TV's make it like youi are looking out the windows of a ships bridge. They can put just about any port in the world into it and run exercises. all very cool

bollie7

Makes you wonder where all this is going to end, TAFE's closing or cutting back courses, limited numbers taking on apprentices, robots taking over.
The end of the world is nigh
Kryn

Originally Posted by bollie7

Vann - I dont have any square stuff. I might have some excess 3/8 whit stuff but wont be a lot. I'll have a look. What about smaller BSF eg 1/4 and possibly some larger BA in there as well. Also have a selection of various thread and angle grease nipples?

Hi Bollie. I don't have any use for BSF or BA gear, nor the grease nipples. Only BSW. Looks like Greg (kwijibo) would like anything BSF.

Let me know if you have any excess BSW bolts/nuts, if you would be so kind. No urgency, just when you're sorting what to throw out.

Cheers, Vann.

Originally Posted by bollie7

Also have a selection of various thread and angle grease nipples?

bollie7

Hi Bollie, would be interested in the grease nipples, what quantity/weight, would you reckon is there? What sort of $ would you be asking for them?
Regards
Kryn

Originally Posted by Vann

Hi Bollie. I don't have any use for BSF or BA gear, nor the grease nipples. Only BSW. Looks like Greg (kwijibo) would like anything BSF.

Let me know if you have any excess BSW bolts/nuts, if you would be so kind. No urgency, just when you're sorting what to throw out.

Cheers, Vann.

Ok mate, I'll see if I can put a care package together. Unfortunately I dont seem to have much other than 1/4"W. theres a bit but nowhere nears much as 1/4" Not sure why that is. I'll let you know but might take a little while.

Originally Posted by KBs PensNmore

Hi Bollie, would be interested in the grease nipples, what quantity/weight, would you reckon is there? What sort of $ would you be asking for them?
Regards
Kryn

Kryn
Just a small handfull. Not sure what threads they are as they were mixed up when given to me. You can have them if you send me a prepaid padded bag. I just have to dig them out so I'll let you know.
bollie7

I'm in Newcastle and would happily rehome those rounds....

Originally Posted by bollie7

This might make some cry. I was going past the scrap bin outside Fitting and Machining at work this arvo and as old habits die hard I had a quick look inside.
Look's like they have been having a clean up/out.

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Most of this is extruded Cast Iron about 75 -80 dia X about 80 -100 long. The orange thing is an old refrig compressor I think- probably for ammonia.

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Black Mild steel about 50 dia X 50 long

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More 50 X 50 buried in there plus a few clamps.
What you can't see in the pics is the small steel bench with half an old alignment exercise. Approx 50 dia shaft, about 500 long running in two good plummer block bearings bolted to a lump of 100 X 50 channel. Quantity of lawn mower bases with wheels and half disassembled motors (bought new for exercises, never cut grass) All damaged in one way or another but still lots of salvagable parts on them. I counted at least 3 cast iron flat belt pulleys. These were an old student turning exercise way back - probably up until the 1960's. About 250 dia X 60 wide. They kept a lot after the exercise was discontinued years ago to use as a balancing exercise. Plus lots of other scrap.
Now, to answer the question everyone is thinking- Did I salvage any of it? No I didn't. I dont have room for it plus the bin is about 1600 high ( I can just see into it standing on my toes) and nothing nearby that I could use to climb into it.

bollie7

Get into that bin!! That cast iron is great. That size dia. 80 x 80 was used for the gland assembly on a vane pump which belonged to the F & M 5210 course through the 80s. The large cast iron pulleys was a stage 2 exercise from the same course up to the early 1990s. Made good wheels for trolleys etc.

Older "workshop practice" students loved the scrap bins and was their first port of call before class in the evenings.

NOW! Be careful getting it. There was a report that one college in Sydney, maybe Mt Druitt, had a principle who warned that it was stealing and action would be taken if anyone was caught raiding the scrap bin! Protect that Super, especially if you are a pre 88 employee!!

Originally Posted by OldRustyToolie

Get into that bin!! That cast iron is great.

Too late. The bin is just about chocka now with a lot more other stuff. That cast is certainly nice (for cast) to turn. I did manage to scab one lump this morning which I might have to use for a project at work, but everything else was covered up. I'm getting too old to be climbing into deep bins

Originally Posted by OldRustyToolie

Protect that Super, especially if you are a pre 88 employee!!

I'm not, unfortunately

bollie7

Originally Posted by bollie7

Too late. The bin is just about chocka now with a lot more other stuff. That cast is certainly nice (for cast) to turn. I did manage to scab one lump this morning which I might have to use for a project at work, but everything else was covered up. I'm getting too old to be climbing into deep bins

I'm not, unfortunately

bollie7

That old Super was a good one.

Meadowbank F & M was the same in recent years with just dumping good material due to the head teacher being A PLUMBER!! He had no sense of need for machines or material as long as the floor was nice and clean. 2 years ago, he had the storeman fill the scrap bin with all sorts of castings... bench vice castings from the old 1970s course, steel and of course cast iron biscuits up to around 12" diameter x about 4" long. Much of the stuff was stock from North Sydney when it closed in early 90s. There was that much stock from wastefull ordering in the 80s when there were heaps of students we donated quite a bit to the West Ryde Live Steam Club! I should have hoarded a bit for myself in those days!!