Odd Craigslist deal yesterday

[Ultradog MN]

I figure you are all sick of my posts about the metal disintegrator so I'll just change the topic here.
I had the disjntegrator on CL ($50) for most of a week and got zero inquiries so yesterday I decided to scrap it. I took some of the panels off the sides to look it over better and that's when I realized the bottom of it was a reservoir and it had several gallons of pestiferous looking liquid in it. So I thought, "Hmmm, I'll just put it on the CL Free section and let someone else scrap it". So I listed it there.
A little while later a guy called and then came over to get it.
He was kind of an odd but likeable fellow and he didn't strike me as shady at all.
So I used the loader tractor to set it upright in his Tundra and we strapped it in and away he went.
About 2 hours later I get a knock on the garage and there he is again. And he wants me to take it back.
"Why"?
He said he can't have it.
When I asked why he said his boss said he cant have it and he pulled a $50 out of his pocket and tried to give it to me.
Hmmm
I only live about 5 miles from a giant scrap yard and suggested he take it there. They'd give him some $ for it.
Nah, He couldn't do that and kept pressing the $50 on me. I tried to refuse it several times.
Then I noticed the machine was no longer upright but laying on its back meaning the liquid must have drained out so I told him I would take it back but I didn't need the Fifty.
But he insisted that I take it so I did and we dragged it out of his pickup and dropped it in my yard.
And I noticed some kinda stuff was still dripping from under his Tundra.
Then my 89 YO pal Kenny stopped by and when he saw the liquid was gone he asked if he could have it.
I said of course and told him I'd even give him the $50 if he took it.
He didn't want the $ and said he would come tomorrow to get it so hopefully this story will soon end.
Anyway, I do a bit of buying and selling around here and this darned machine was the craziest thing I've bought so far.
PS,
Someone tell Sweetfeet that I took her advice and saved the tag from it - as a reminder of something or other...

 

[Duner Wi]

We are going be reading about you in the papers yet.

 

[Ultradog MN]

We are going be reading about you in the papers yet.

Are you alluding to possible hazardous waste?

For what its worth,
The machine came from a division of Danfoss Coporation a multibillion $ company with 42,000 employees and plants in over 100 countries
So I would guess that they are OSHA compliant - at least in the US, in enforcing safety glasses while machining (or while using a chain saw) and with all the chemicals they use.
So I am not worried about having created a Superfund site.

 

[40Mule]

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ,6? Is it up to six people now that know about these things, and want nothing to do with them? I lost count with the last two. There was a toilet tank float in the bottom of them for when it ran low on coolant. The float would stick down in it like pond scum. With your pal Kenny it might be up to seven.

 

[flying belgian]

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ,6? Is it up to six people now that know about these things, and want nothing to do with them? I lost count with the last two. There was a toilet tank float in the bottom of them for when it ran low on coolant. The float would stick down in it like pond scum. With your pal Kenny it might be up to seven.

And now 4 more people.

 

[Duner Wi]

Are you alluding to possible hazardous waste?

For what its worth,
The machine came from a division of Danfoss Coporation a multibillion $ company with 42,000 employees and plants in over 100 countries
So I would guess that they are OSHA compliant - at least in the US, in enforcing safety glasses while machining (or while using a chain saw) and with all the chemicals they use.
So I am not worried about having created a Superfund site.

I am just referring to your adventures. They get more strange all the time. Interesting tho.

 

[MarkB_MI]

PCBs?

 

[Duner Wi]

PCBs?

Nothing to see here ,move along.

 

[bmaverick]

I figure you are all sick of my posts about the metal disintegrator so I'll just change the topic here.
I had the disjntegrator on CL ($50) for most of a week and got zero inquiries so yesterday I decided to scrap it. I took some of the panels off the sides to look it over better and that's when I realized the bottom of it was a reservoir and it had several gallons of pestiferous looking liquid in it. So I thought, "Hmmm, I'll just put it on the CL Free section and let someone else scrap it". So I listed it there.
A little while later a guy called and then came over to get it.
He was kind of an odd but likeable fellow and he didn't strike me as shady at all.
So I used the loader tractor to set it upright in his Tundra and we strapped it in and away he went.
About 2 hours later I get a knock on the garage and there he is again. And he wants me to take it back.
"Why"?
He said he can't have it.
When I asked why he said his boss said he cant have it and he pulled a $50 out of his pocket and tried to give it to me.
Hmmm
I only live about 5 miles from a giant scrap yard and suggested he take it there. They'd give him some $ for it.
Nah, He couldn't do that and kept pressing the $50 on me. I tried to refuse it several times.
Then I noticed the machine was no longer upright but laying on its back meaning the liquid must have drained out so I told him I would take it back but I didn't need the Fifty.
But he insisted that I take it so I did and we dragged it out of his pickup and dropped it in my yard.
And I noticed some kinda stuff was still dripping from under his Tundra.
Then my 89 YO pal Kenny stopped by and when he saw the liquid was gone he asked if he could have it.
I said of course and told him I'd even give him the $50 if he took it.
He didn't want the $ and said he would come tomorrow to get it so hopefully this story will soon end.
Anyway, I do a bit of buying and selling around here and this darned machine was the craziest thing I've bought so far.
PS,
Someone tell Sweetfeet that I took her advice and saved the tag from it - as a reminder of something or other...So

So you were the person who ended up with the flux-capacitor from Ann Arbor, MI I once lived near that place.

The ID plate has the old area code 313. I recall that as a kid.

 

[stevieb49829]

You just have all the fun!

 

[SweetFeet]

I figure you are all sick of my posts about the metal disintegrator so I'll just change the topic here.
I had the disjntegrator on CL ($50) for most of a week and got zero inquiries so yesterday I decided to scrap it. I took some of the panels off the sides to look it over better and that's when I realized the bottom of it was a reservoir and it had several gallons of pestiferous looking liquid in it. So I thought, "Hmmm, I'll just put it on the CL Free section and let someone else scrap it". So I listed it there.
A little while later a guy called and then came over to get it.
He was kind of an odd but likeable fellow and he didn't strike me as shady at all.
So I used the loader tractor to set it upright in his Tundra and we strapped it in and away he went.
About 2 hours later I get a knock on the garage and there he is again. And he wants me to take it back.
"Why"?
He said he can't have it.
When I asked why he said his boss said he cant have it and he pulled a $50 out of his pocket and tried to give it to me.
Hmmm
I only live about 5 miles from a giant scrap yard and suggested he take it there. They'd give him some $ for it.
Nah, He couldn't do that and kept pressing the $50 on me. I tried to refuse it several times.
Then I noticed the machine was no longer upright but laying on its back meaning the liquid must have drained out so I told him I would take it back but I didn't need the Fifty.
But he insisted that I take it so I did and we dragged it out of his pickup and dropped it in my yard.
And I noticed some kinda stuff was still dripping from under his Tundra.
Then my 89 YO pal Kenny stopped by and when he saw the liquid was gone he asked if he could have it.
I said of course and told him I'd even give him the $50 if he took it.
He didn't want the $ and said he would come tomorrow to get it so hopefully this story will soon end.
Anyway, I do a bit of buying and selling around here and this darned machine was the craziest thing I've bought so far.
PS,
Someone tell Sweetfeet that I took her advice and saved the tag from it - as a reminder of something or other...

Nice you saved the tag.

 

[woodbutcher]

And now 4 more people.

I know, but I won't tell.

Butch

 

[Ray,IN]

It would've been expensive to have 440VAC run to your shop anyway; a transformers would've been just as expensive.

 

[Janicholson]

I figure you are all sick of my posts about the metal disintegrator so I'll just change the topic here.
I had the disjntegrator on CL ($50) for most of a week and got zero inquiries so yesterday I decided to scrap it. I took some of the panels off the sides to look it over better and that's when I realized the bottom of it was a reservoir and it had several gallons of pestiferous looking liquid in it. So I thought, "Hmmm, I'll just put it on the CL Free section and let someone else scrap it". So I listed it there.
A little while later a guy called and then came over to get it.
He was kind of an odd but likeable fellow and he didn't strike me as shady at all.
So I used the loader tractor to set it upright in his Tundra and we strapped it in and away he went.
About 2 hours later I get a knock on the garage and there he is again. And he wants me to take it back.
"Why"?
He said he can't have it.
When I asked why he said his boss said he cant have it and he pulled a $50 out of his pocket and tried to give it to me.
Hmmm
I only live about 5 miles from a giant scrap yard and suggested he take it there. They'd give him some $ for it.
Nah, He couldn't do that and kept pressing the $50 on me. I tried to refuse it several times.
Then I noticed the machine was no longer upright but laying on its back meaning the liquid must have drained out so I told him I would take it back but I didn't need the Fifty.
But he insisted that I take it so I did and we dragged it out of his pickup and dropped it in my yard.
And I noticed some kinda stuff was still dripping from under his Tundra.
Then my 89 YO pal Kenny stopped by and when he saw the liquid was gone he asked if he could have it.
I said of course and told him I'd even give him the $50 if he took it.
He didn't want the $ and said he would come tomorrow to get it so hopefully this story will soon end.
Anyway, I do a bit of buying and selling around here and this darned machine was the craziest thing I've bought so far.
PS,
Someone tell Sweetfeet that I took her advice and saved the tag from it - as a reminder of something or other...

Sounds to me like an EDM machine intended for the repair industry not precision Electro machining. The fluid from old machines (Dielectric) can be toxic, newer is far less toxic. They are often contaminated with matal "dust" Jim