[Closing: Last Call] Accepting BTC and LTC for surplus technology - page 2.

capn noe

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Looking for platinum plated wire or sheet for a hydrogen fuel cell, don't see anything listed on the site but asking just in case. Thanks.

We have none, I just confirmed. I have been told where I might find some, will advise.

I do have something new to announce!

Military Surplus Stuff!

I just picked up a lot of military surplus stuff, mostly clothing. I'll be inventorying it and figuring out what I have shortly, but it's all available! Sadly all of it seems to be small and medium, but I'll know shortly for sure.

Most of the lot.

fgervais

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Holy hell, the hours I'd loose just wandering around a place like this...

I'm making a note to come by if I ever come down so far south.

In the meanwhile, I'll be keeping an eye out for various things server cluster related.

capn noe

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Quote from: bitcool on October 06, 2012, 09:39:36 AM

Great, bookmarked your site.
I see great growth potential in your business.

I hope so, I've made exactly 0.0000 BTC so far. Embarrassed

Do I really have to sell scrap wire derivatives or have some kind of electrical supply ponzi? Such a strange market....

bitcool

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Live and enjoy experiments

Great, bookmarked your site.
I see great growth potential in your business.

capn noe

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http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=AP7862&tab=features

That is the specific pdu i have for sale.

gusti

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Quote from: capn noe on September 25, 2012, 05:29:03 AM

Other than not trusting any of the exchanges, I also value BTC (for now) differently for shipping costs and product. For product I'm valuing BTC at around 10USD but for shipping I'm cutting this in half. For 30 dollars worth of product that costs 20 dollars worth of shipping I'd charge 7BTC.

So you come to these forum to promote your products in exchange for btc, but you value btc as a second class currency ? Sorry, but I will not buy from you, good luck either.

Cablez

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I owe my soul to the Bitcoin code...

Quote from: capn noe on October 05, 2012, 05:20:55 PM

Update about the USB hubs: I didn't see anything after a quick look. I don't see why you couldn't just use a patch panel and run them via serial port though.

Thanks for looking capn. I will go a different way.

capn noe

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Update about the USB hubs: I didn't see anything after a quick look. I don't see why you couldn't just use a patch panel and run them via serial port though.

capn noe

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Quote from: dentldir on October 05, 2012, 02:57:30 PM

Do you have any low RPM alternators? Say 100RPM-200RPM or so?

Sorry, I don't think so.

capn noe

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Quote from: firefop on October 05, 2012, 10:27:17 AM

dang it - you keep sucking my back in with your 'real hardware' arguement.

Yes Quote me on that 208v w/management and one of those massive rack cases. And some weight in patch cables or cable fragments...

I'd sell you a rack mount housing and a monitored PDU for 180USD, but it's big enough to require freight shipping. Where are you, regionally? I could be enticed to deliver it....

At that price I'd load it up with patch cables, power cables, fans, wire management brackets, mount the PDU, and throw some more goodies in there. I could probably find a working rack mount APC backup unit, I'd throw that in if you wanted to buy a 1u-2u server for 100-200 bucks. I also have a 4u RAID array that takes 16 sata hard drives if, you know, you are into that kinda thing.

I'll get you an exact make and model from the PDU tomorrow so you can check out the specs, it's not on the webpage it's in my personal kit. Because it is awesome.

dentldir

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Do you have any low RPM alternators? Say 100RPM-200RPM or so?

firefop

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Quote from: capn noe on October 04, 2012, 07:16:54 PM

I'll look around tomorrow, actually. 'Enterprise Grade USB' is probably a shitton of high end usb controller cards in a server with a backplane covered in ports. A 'usb hub' is some scrub-tier consumer garbage that I wouldn't count on for my livelihood at any cost. Boggles the mind!

Another thing ya'all might be into, we have literally thousands of power supplies. I'd sell most of em for 1btc each. Get a few bigger power supplies, you don't want to run 'em over 70% (hell even 50% is kinda crazy) capacity consistantly. (PS, Server power supplies are awesome)

Also, does ANYONE do powerline monitoring? I've got a 208 powerstrip that actually has a webserver with an rj-45 port, this allows network monitoring of power draw from each outlet. Even remotely. I'd almost say that if I owned any amount of a serious mining operation I'd want power monitoring available.

dang it - you keep sucking my back in with your 'real hardware' arguement.

Yes Quote me on that 208v w/management and one of those massive rack cases. And some weight in patch cables or cable fragments...

capn noe

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Quote from: Cablez on October 04, 2012, 07:00:05 PM

Do you happen to have enterprise grade USB hubs laying around?

I'll look around tomorrow, actually. 'Enterprise Grade USB' is probably a shitton of high end usb controller cards in a server with a backplane covered in ports. A 'usb hub' is some scrub-tier consumer garbage that I wouldn't count on for my livelihood at any cost. Boggles the mind!

Another thing ya'all might be into, we have literally thousands of power supplies. I'd sell most of em for 1btc each. Get a few bigger power supplies, you don't want to run 'em over 70% (hell even 50% is kinda crazy) capacity consistantly. (PS, Server power supplies are awesome)

Also, does ANYONE do powerline monitoring? I've got a 208 powerstrip that actually has a webserver with an rj-45 port, this allows network monitoring of power draw from each outlet. Even remotely. I'd almost say that if I owned any amount of a serious mining operation I'd want power monitoring available.

Cablez

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Do you happen to have enterprise grade USB hubs laying around?

capn noe

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I saw this picture in one of the FPGA threads :

Do people want a few cases like this? I can put together some frames, gutted. I'm surprised everyone is using commercial hubs for this stuff too. They DO make enterprise grade USB equipment.

Hell, I'd love to build an actual server rack up to run a gob of ASIC or FPGA equipment. I probably have the kit laying around to knock a few of them out within a week. Golly, I'd even spraypaint it custom for a fee.

The build quality on those BFL machines is absolute garbage. I might put kits together of replacement fans and send it out to folks so they have them in anticipation. We literally have over 10,000 fans laying around of various sizes. Nice ones, usually. As a person who professionally destroys multi-thousand dollar enterprise computer equipment, sometimes, I can say that those 30k dollar units are in now way commercial grade. "USB powered from the PC" is like someone speaking in tounges, it is so alien.

hmmmmmm Lips sealed

capn noe

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Quote from: firefop on October 02, 2012, 03:55:58 PM

Hm - looks like we might find a middle ground.

How about - 95% of usd cost on site... paid in btc... (marketed as a "5% discount for purchasing with btc) - and then the customer (in this case me) pays full shipping cost using fiat (credit card or paypal or whatever you'd prefer).

What I've suggested above could be integrated into the website to allow automated purchases. You'd effectively get the BTC upfront and then post a bill for the shipping (after you've assembled and weighed the package of course) - you'd be more protected this way. and would also be able to turn a better profit.

I could do that. I'm going to wait it out a few months and see if taking BTC for surplus is worth the hastle, and if I start getting more orders than I can process by hand I'll try to do something more automated.

Honestly my current concern is the lack of sales. If I don't make 10BTC+/month in sales I'm not going to bother with it.

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Quote from: capn noe on October 02, 2012, 04:48:37 AM

Firefop : still mulling over my reply, I understand what you are saying and I agree tentatively. My largest concern is that I just cannot use BTC to cover any of my overhead, ESPECIALLY shipping. I'll sell you almost anything off that page for around 50-70% listed price in USD, and in a way I AM charging a premium for taking BTC. This may not be fair but, again, I'm terrified of BTC. I'd accept face value BTC at current price if I could get purchasers to pay USD for shipping, gladly. Still.... considering. Because I don't plan on 'cashing out' my BTC I'm somewhat insulated from market manipulations... except for the cash overhead in shipping costs.

Hm - looks like we might find a middle ground.

How about - 95% of usd cost on site... paid in btc... (marketed as a "5% discount for purchasing with btc) - and then the customer (in this case me) pays full shipping cost using fiat (credit card or paypal or whatever you'd prefer).

What I've suggested above could be integrated into the website to allow automated purchases. You'd effectively get the BTC upfront and then post a bill for the shipping (after you've assembled and weighed the package of course) - you'd be more protected this way. and would also be able to turn a better profit.

Aahzman

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Your *what* is itchy?

Quote from: capn noe on October 02, 2012, 06:11:18 AM

Quote from: Aahzman on October 02, 2012, 06:04:09 AM

If you have a modded Wii, and you want to rip original Wii game disks to ISOs for burning, this guy will be a good source of the short list of DVD drive models that can do it.
LG -8164b
* LG-8163b
* LG-8162b
* LG-8161b

A quick search revealed about 30 units from this list available. doesn't matter what the letters (HL, LG, GDR, GRD, whatever), you're looking for 816xb where x is a 1 2 3 or 4.

;-)

Whoa. I checked for xbox360 compat drives but not wii.

1btc each!

If i didn't already have an 8164b somewhere in my office, i'd maybe buy one...or not, actually, since I'm selling my entire wii bundle off (bought a condo, getting married...) but yeah, they ain't the fastest, but they are the only models of drives found by the Afterdawn community to consistently rip wii discs error-free.

Aahzman

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Your *what* is itchy?

Quote from: capn noe on September 28, 2012, 12:27:01 PM

I just got something in that I thought some of you might be interested in.

10 Antique IBM Type M keyboards:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02og1nUSI8A

These are the base keyboards for almost all steampunk keyboard mods (such as the datamancer keyboards), and are frankly awesome. They range from 1987 to 1994 models.

Anyone interested? I'm still in the process of cleaning out the insides, testing all keys, and taking images of each. I'll post them here when I'm done. Usually I just throw these on ebay when I find them but..... bitcoin!

mmmm IBM "Indestructibles"....i still have a couple of those. I love that clackity-clack sound when I'm pounding away at a particularly anger-filled facebook rant.

capn noe

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Quote from: Aahzman on October 02, 2012, 06:04:09 AM

If you have a modded Wii, and you want to rip original Wii game disks to ISOs for burning, this guy will be a good source of the short list of DVD drive models that can do it.
LG -8164b
* LG-8163b
* LG-8162b
* LG-8161b

A quick search revealed about 30 units from this list available. doesn't matter what the letters (HL, LG, GDR, GRD, whatever), you're looking for 816xb where x is a 1 2 3 or 4.

;-)

Whoa. I checked for xbox360 compat drives but not wii.

1btc each!

\/ They really are quite lovely to work on, though they make a hell of a racket. Grin

For anyone interested in steampunk keyboard mods with these, check out http://steampunkworkshop.com/keyboard.shtml

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