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chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 10 9:45 am Post subject: What to do with broken VHS and DVD?
We have finally pensioned off our temperamental dvd player and vhs player. Neither of them is something suitable for passing on to someone else - what can I do with them? Surely the parts would be good for something - it seems such a waste to chuck them out.

cir3ngirl

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 4846
Location: Cirencester

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 10 9:51 am Post subject:
Wes spends hours taking thing apart. In readyness for his career at NASA. How it helps I don't know

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 10 9:54 am Post subject:
Freecycle? Someone might want the laser from the DVD player for something geeky, or the motor from the VHS for a project.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 10 10:36 am Post subject:
Thanks, I will give freecycle a go. Do they watch a lot of DVDs on the space station, then, cir3ngirl?

cir3ngirl

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 4846
Location: Cirencester

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 10 10:51 am Post subject:

Chez wrote:

Thanks, I will give freecycle a go. Do they watch a lot of DVDs on the space station, then, cir3ngirl?

Think he want to work on the ground

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35139
Location: Devon

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 10 4:33 pm Post subject:
Our technology department at school sends out a plea for such things every so often. They use the parts for the electronics GCSE course I believe.

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 10 4:36 pm Post subject:
I've got a broken dvd/video player as well - I'd happily hang onto it and let your school have it when I am next visiting Mum, Jamanda

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35139
Location: Devon

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 10 4:39 pm Post subject:
OK, but it may be that your local school could use them.

Anura

Joined: 26 Aug 2009
Posts: 57

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 10 11:08 am Post subject:

When I had a conservatory built I wouldn't let them put the 3x2 flags into the skip and stacked them up to re-use. In reality they're much too heavy for t'other half to handle, although he's a big strong chappie he has a back that has seen more wear than the rest of him, so I have been waiting 5 years in the hope I can get someone to lay them.

I've recently come across Freegle which I think is a spin-off or replacement for Freecycle. Someone was asking for flags, so I was able to help one couple who wanted them as a base for a wendy house and another who wanted a base for a barbequie! Magic! I'm so grateful to those people for taking them.

Now I have to find some 2nd hand smaller flags so I can possibly 'set down' - note not 'lay' myself, as it might be a bit of a dogs dinner.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 10 12:49 pm Post subject:
Oooh, that reminds me, two more defunct videos lurking to go in the skip.

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