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Location: Naremburn, NSW
Member since 15 November 2005
Member #: 1
Postcount: 7395
If it's on YouTube or another external host then bandwidth isn't a problem as the host server shoulders the load. If I hosted the video files here there'd be problems though. Not if there were only a few but if there were many.
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Location: Naremburn, NSW
Member since 15 November 2005
Member #: 1
Postcount: 7395
The piece of metal with the ball joint on the end of it looks like a hip replacement prosthesis. If it feels very light weight it's a sure sign that it is. It'll be made of titanium. In the box, those things are worth about $20,000 when complete with the other titanium piece and the nylon washer that goes between them.
Don't plug in the red light (shown toward the end of the video). It's a 12V trailer lamp and some nitwit has fastened a 240V plugtop to it.
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Location: Melbourne, VIC
Member since 23 August 2017
Member #: 2157
Postcount: 8
Yeah the hip was a strange item to get in e-waste.
I just came back from a 2nd pick up there which netted some more interesting pieces including a beautiful Realistic STA-2000 stereo receiver with manual.
The guy was actually doing the audio stuff for a church.
Location: Sydney, NSW
Member since 29 August 2017
Member #: 2161
Postcount: 1
I was about to say that this box and cable setup looks exactly like the setup my church had in the early 90's before we replaced it with an updated system and churches went all music and disco.
The wooden case looks exactly the same and I am willing to bet it would have been matched to a simple wooden cased mixer with a label on the front that said "Archer" Jeffrey Archer used to make heaps of Australian church systems.
Would be a shame to scrap it but it wouldnt be much use to anyone but a collector.
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