I love free stuff!

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Not so much free gear other than a at one point Juno Light sample kit an a few other things, more that the other shop - "the South Building" in being the storage building for tour gear storage. Them in throwing out old stuff no longer paid to be stored are more and more "if electronic or electrical send it my way."

Came to a head with that building's shop manager and I at one point, here it was I was making a 400A AC three phase distro and needed to spend in parts amongst parts like $80.00 each for some Marathon block barrior strips, yet a week later here was this rack in a dumpster with a bunch of them in it which went directly to the scrap yard. This amongst other electrical parts. Fine if the scene shop wants to throw out casters, Coffin Locks etc. much less plywood without saving what's useful from it in that part costing more at times than what it's worth, or that tax deductable refund isn't even worth what it costs to pay someone to landfill the scenery someone else could use in hauling it away without paying to trash it in volume - a constant thing...

At least my big win was at least in part the concept that if electronic or electrical and trash, it comes to see me somewhat in that I'm yet to see any big rack of stuff to take apart. On the other hand I just got a big box of Juno lights in addition to a LED controller that while we don't use that brand, I'm told is worth somewhere between $6K and 2.4K on E-Bay each - forget which. Gee, that box of them never used will have otherwise just gone into the trash with the rest of the hard flats etc.

At times I scalvange some small rolls of carpet for my cat play towers and other lumber but at other times the scale of what's thrown out just astounds me. (Don't send me PM's requesting the gear... I neither know about what is thrown out, nor have a role in it.) Remember an entire PAR can lighting system and rigging system for it that appeared in the storage building one day. It was removed from a club. Nobody remembers what happened to the gear or dimmers, one of them things, might have been "too much work" to make ours in constantly buying more cans, or could have been recycled or given away.

Just astounds me at times be this while carpenter and setting up my theater for goods coming in or in these days seeing stuff going to trash the scale of what's tossed out at times.

Good friend of mine that now works for a sound company now for the most part which also does some lighting was cleaning out a closet and found some Major Lekos and some Strand Cans than sent them my way by way of good home for them. Nice of him in having no use for them and me being that good home. Should probably take a bit off his dicount factor for lamps on resale to his company based on volume and good guy status.