deskthority

I was wondering if there are people interested in joining me in going to an electronics scrapyard where I go to in order to save some beauties from destruction. It is in the province of Limburg in The Netherlands.

THE FIRST OFFICIAL "DT MECH KEYBOARD BEAUTY HUNT" WILL COMMENCE ON 23 FEB 2013 AT 11:00 (!)

The address is here : http://www.computerrecycle.nl/

Note : DON'T FORGET YOUR KEYPULLERS . You need those to separate the beauties from the beasts

I'd love to join if it was somewhere closer to noord holland

Merijn wrote:I'd love to join if it was somewhere closer to noord holland

It's a 1 hour drive from my place....

Thinking about it - perhaps you can arrange something with some IBM buildings. Every now and then they get batched of old stuff - including tons of buckling springs - and throw everything away. Last time I was there I was a couple days too late. About a hundred old buckling spring keyboards gone. :<

Interested!
My local scrap yard doesn't allow people to take anything out of the junk

Count me in.

Awe, wish I could come!
Good luck on the hunt!

Dang it if only it was closer:)

Interested! I'm always on the search for an excuse to go to the netherlands

Would be awesome to know the date a few days in advance to buy cheap train tickets and plan the futher traveling.

codingmonkey wrote:Interested! I'm always on the search for an excuse to go to the netherlands

Would be awesome to know the date a few days in advance to buy cheap train tickets and plan the futher traveling.

Will do my best.

First I need to convince the owner to let multiple keyboard hunters enter his property

Just contacted the owner :

More people is not a problem he said. I can drop in whenever I want. Excellent.

So I tentatively scheduled the 'Save The Beauties' event on 23 February 2013.

Mind you : there are no guarantees , the guy told me there are keyboards, he has no idea on what the beauties are and what not so worst case you might end up with nothing special. At least you will get an idea on how this process works.

Anyway, since I'll probably start this event off from my place, we could also swap stuff amongst ourselves and do a 'mini' keyboard party.

But where is the junkyard?

Icarium wrote:But where is the junkyard?

Sorry, It's this one here : http://computerrecycle.nl/contact.php

Hm... 3 h 20 m ...when do I have to decide?

Icarium wrote:Hm... 3 h 20 m ...when do I have to decide?

You could decide the same day.

If there are a whole bunch of people wanting to join this saving spree ( more than 5 ) I would need to make a shift and push some of those interested to another date.

I'll post a time for people to join at my place and a time around which we will arrive at the beauty save compound.

By the way : I pay the guy 1 euro per keyboard, so you'd better take some cash with you.

Well, I was planning to come in a shopping cart anyway...maybe we can get the Euro out if necessary?

Icarium wrote:Well, I was planning to come in a shopping cart anyway...maybe we can get the Euro out if necessary?

I give the guy 1 euro per keyboard for two reasons :
1. He is kind enough to let me do this and I'd like to secure these events for the future.
2. There still is value in these keyboards even as scrap.

I wasn't trying to complain, I was just amused that you felt that you needed to point out that we should bring money.

Edit: Somehow this seemed obvious to me and I always have some cash anyway. Maybe that's just me.

Icarium wrote:I wasn't trying to complain, I was just amused that you felt that you needed to point out that we should bring money.

Edit: Somehow this seemed obvious to me and I always have some cash anyway. Maybe that's just me.

Har har...

No, these days I hardly have cash with me. And the guy does *not* have a pin automaton.

The place is 50km away from me. When do we start? : )

well.... i would like to join... but im 10,000 km away from there.. Can anyone grab something for me?...

Icarium wrote: [...] and I always have some cash anyway. Maybe that's just me.

Jeah... that's just you

Mrinterface wrote:23 February 2013

men, now 3 things fall on this weekend for me... still, count me in.

I'll be there!

tinlong117 wrote:well.... i would like to join... but im 10,000 km away from there.. Can anyone grab something for me?...

What are you looking for?

Me too, hopefully I'll be in for first round (-:

23.2.13? Hm, I'm on a LAN party that weekend..

very tempting... have to think about it

no dumpster diving for me. dentist appointment... it's a pity. I was excited to meet a few true keyboard-heads.

440km to Limburg and no car