Charity Shops.

[Duffbeer]

I know it's been said before about checking out charity shops for demi johns is a winner, but don't just visit from time to time, give them your phone number and ask them to call if they get anything winemaking related.
I did this about eight months ago with the Prince of Wales Hospice shop and never heard a thing, until yesterday. I picked up for the measely price of £2.55 3 demi johns and a harris filter including a new pack of filters.
The phone rang again today and again for the measley price of £4.20 I picked up another 3 demi johns, 6 safety stoppers, 10 airlocks and bungs, brand new bottle brush and about 150 new shrink caps ooh and best of all a hand corker. On a low estimate to buy new probably worth about £80 +. Anything I don't need I can give to my newly reformed wine making brother-in-law.

[Mamgiowl]

YAY!

[fatbloke]

I know it's been said before about checking out charity shops for demi johns is a winner, but don't just visit from time to time, give them your phone number and ask them to call if they get anything winemaking related.
I did this about eight months ago with the Prince of Wales Hospice shop and never heard a thing, until yesterday. I picked up for the measely price of £2.55 3 demi johns and a harris filter including a new pack of filters.
The phone rang again today and again for the measley price of £4.20 I picked up another 3 demi johns, 6 safety stoppers, 10 airlocks and bungs, brand new bottle brush and about 150 new shrink caps ooh and best of all a hand corker. On a low estimate to buy new probably worth about £80 +. Anything I don't need I can give to my newly reformed wine making brother-in-law.

Ha ha! I suppose that we have to consider it a result then

regards

JtFB

[Hippie]

Sounds like you need to get busy filling those dj's !!!

Way to go !

[StockeyDAW]

DB some nice cost effective business going on there. Just trying to figure out where some of those deals are around here. Any chance at a garage sale or the Salvation Army? Cheers - we sure never know what some think is garbage to others it is just what they are looking for. It is a throw away society - costs so much for a technical services specialist for TV repair that we might as well throw it out and buy a knew one? I do not know where it will all end. Cheers DB good on ya.. DAW

[Duffbeer]

Ha ha! I suppose that we have to consider it a result then

regards

JtFB

Absolutly, I had given up hope on them, just shows.

Sounds like you need to get busy filling those dj's !!!

Way to go !

Hehe always busy filling fermenters dude, and emptying them too.

DB some nice cost effective business going on there. Just trying to figure out where some of those deals are around here. Any chance at a garage sale or the Salvation Army? Cheers - we sure never know what some think is garbage to others it is just what they are looking for. It is a throw away society - costs so much for a technical services specialist for TV repair that we might as well throw it out and buy a knew one? I do not know where it will all end. Cheers DB good on ya.. DAW

Cheers DAW, I'm presuming someone has given up the hobby or passed away, just glad it went to the charity shop rather than the tip.

[Aristaeus]

Here is one for all to check...scrap metal yards. I went to a scrap metal yard with a heating/cooling service friend. His small horde of copper scrap sold for $479 US, a mere bushel basket of scrap! As he was doing his weigh-in, I saw a stainless tank a few feet away...I ask what is that...the attendant replied scrap stainless.

Closer inspection revealed it was #316 food grade stainless, a mixing tank for salad dressing bottling plant. To my surprise the attendant said I could purchase it for $1.09 per pound. It was a 33 gallon stainless tank with a 4 inch orfice. Now it is full of Native Indian Peach wine.

Several 5 and 10 gallon beer kegs have come my way from that same attendant. I slipped him a $5 bill to call me when he receives such treasures.

WARNING: Much more work to fill that bugger...but it stops waste of fruits, as many neighbors let most of their fruit drop to the ground.

Note: The China Industrial expansion is gobbling up all precious metals, and many others not so precious. Prices are skyrocketing!

Keith

[StockeyDAW]

Here is one for all to check...scrap metal yards. I went to a scrap metal yard with a heating/cooling service friend. His small horde of copper scrap sold for $479 US, a mere bushel basket of scrap! As he was doing his weigh-in, I saw a stainless tank a few feet away...I ask what is that...the attendant replied scrap stainless.

Closer inspection revealed it was #316 food grade stainless, a mixing tank for salad dressing bottling plant. To my surprise the attendant said I could purchase it for $1.09 per pound. It was a 33 gallon stainless tank with a 4 inch orfice. Now it is full of Native Indian Peach wine.

Several 5 and 10 gallon beer kegs have come my way from that same attendant. I slipped him a $5 bill to call me when he receives such treasures.

WARNING: Much more work to fill that bugger...but it stops waste of fruits, as many neighbors let most of their fruit drop to the ground.

Note: The China Industrial expansion is gobbling up all precious metals, and many others not so precious. Prices are skyrocketing!

Keith

Very interesting. Good use of windfalls and overripe fruit. I expect the people managing the landfill sites have their garages and back yards full of treasures. Then there are the auto wrecker people - amazing people can toss out a 30 or 40k vehicle after 10 or so years use? Cheers DAW

[lockwood1956]

I have 5 demijohns donated to the site by a winemaker giving up the hobby, who found us through a search engine, I tried to convince him not to give up, but to no avail.


they are free to a good home, also with it a boots filter.

anyone?

PM me if you want them......

[lockwood1956]

Claimed by Russell (Kerosine)

[Aristaeus]

Pitty...old soldiers die hard...give them a salute! Take the corks out and pass the bottles around, refill them in his remembrance...Russell