Free Baltimore city dump score.....

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So I get a call from a friend that just made a dump run and he says "don't know if your interested but I just saw a rather nice Lunar Lander down @ the Sisson St dump" I say "im on it" I get there and see this......

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after pulling a few muscles because I am alone I get it home and safely get the monster into my garage....

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here is view of the near perfect cp...

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I can say that Lunar Lander hasnt been on my want list...but I do feel great about saving this unit from certain doom. Oh...and all the electronics are in place with all matching #'s. Serial is low 1,200's. She's not working @ the moment..but thats only a minor problem ;)
 
Congrats on saving that! If its not a keeper you shouldn't have any problems selling it. Wow, I just have to sit back and laugh that someone would throw it away. At least they didn't actually "toss" it into the dump area...
 
That is impressive. Nice score!! You should have picked up some 19" TV's for tube swaps while you were there too......
 
Nice score! Did you have to ask before you hauled it? Our local dump has a recycle area, but it's fenced and guarded now - apparently the company the city contracts with to do recycling got pissed because people (like me :)) kept taking stuff. :(
 
You should have picked up some 19" TV's for tube swaps while you were there too......
funny thing is that I had to talk the "yard guy" there into letting me take it. He went on and on about how know ones allowed to pick through that pile because the city has a contract w/ a recycling company that picks up the stuff. The dude ended up smiling after I painted a picture of how "I could save it"...he then told me to load it quick and take off.
 
funny thing is that I had to talk the "yard guy" there into letting me take it. He went on and on about how know ones allowed to pick through that pile because the city has a contract w/ a recycling company that picks up the stuff. The dude ended up smiling after I painted a picture of how "I could save it"...he then told me to load it quick and take off.

Go back to the dump. Find the guy. Give him $20 and your business card/phone number. Tell him if any other cabs come in to give you a call and you can put another bill in his hand if it is a taker.

Nice score.
 
holy geeeeeezzzz. Thats a super save.

Let me know if you don't want it......;)


I got a mini score today. Someone left a 19" tv by our dumpster at work today. So I snaged it and tested it. It works just no sound.

So now I need to find out if I can use this tube.
 
Wow, this is just insane.

Not only am I bewildered that the owner of this machine (nor any of their friends & family) had any inkling that this machine might have some worth, but that they didn't dump it in the most violent fashion possible -- just to see what it would do when it slammed to the ground.
 
dude you need to grease that guys palm a little...

what a find!!! is it complete???? SCORE!!!! i hope i can save one in a situation like that someday....
 
How is it that someones "trash" ended up standing up right and not on it's side and piled on? Great find - just outstanding!
 
I have to say that I am quite jealous! I'm not a huge fan of LL myself, but if I got one my dad would be very excited. (Its his favorite game)
 
Go back to the dump. Find the guy. Give him $20 and your business card/phone number. Tell him if any other cabs come in to give you a call and you can put another bill in his hand if it is a taker. ...

+1. It's good to have helpful folks like that as friends!!!

Sweet score, man!!!
 
About 13 years ago I go on a late night trash run to a local dump.
I back up to a dumpster and see the silhouette of a strange looking mini-fridge. The closer I backed to it the more it started looking less and less like a refrigerator.

Seconds later I'm standing face to marque with a Gorf cabaret.
It even had it's power cord neatly coiled around the joystick, like it was waiting to go home with someone. I lay it down in the back of the truck, and take it home. I plug it in fully expecting it to sh!t fire. Instead I get the leader of the Gorfian army taunting me.
It still works to this day.

12 years later I decided to start collecting.



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