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Free: Electric Bug Zappers (UWS 94/Columbus) Just found three more! Been laying around for years, never used. They're 20 inches long, roughly the size of a badminton racket. I've seen others in action, and they do work, once you've found your aim. CAUTION: These are not toys! Keep away from kids! Anyone messing with these is in for quite a (literal) shock, since there's thousands of volts present when the button is pressed. Used properly they're quite safe; messed with, they're dangerous.

4d

Free: Hearing aid batteries (UWS 94/Columbus) Ordered by mistake: Two small boxes, each containing 60 batteries; see the pics for the details. If this is your size it's your lucky day! Can you hear me now?

9d

Free: Half-gallon plastic jars (UWS 94/Columbus) There are eight. Dimensions 5" x 5-1/2" x 7-1/2" high. They stack, but don't nest, so any pile will be unstable. Screw-on tops make a very good seal. Useful for food, hardware, you name it. You don't have to take all eight, but you must take at least two.

9d

Free: American Bee Journal, October 1981 (UWS 94/Columbus) I have no idea where this came from, but I guess beekeepers need a trade journal, too. It sez here that back in 1981 you could buy queen bees for about $5 each; who knew?

19d

Free: Two dozen tiny sewing kits (UWS 94/Columbus) Gifted ...the kind you find laying around in hotel rooms. Some with needles, some not. One appears to be ONLY needles; go figure.

19d

Free: Indoor LED flood lamps (UWS 94/Columbus) Gifted Three lamps, never used, for indoor applications. The one important spec not shown on this side of the packaging is the color temperature, which is 5000oKelvin. This is extremely white, close to sunlight, and therefore not generally used for residential indoor lighting, whereas the old familiar incandescent lamps are 2700oK, much more yellow and therefore kinder to skin tones. However, these will do fine in the high ceiling of a garage or warehouse or gymnasium.

59d

Free: Kitchen stuff (UWS 94/Columbus) Gifted Clean, used very little. See the pic. You must take it all.

59d

Free: Chain for lamp hanging (UWS 94/Columbus) Gifted This is a bronze-plated steel chain 15 feet long, with two carabiners, also bronze-plated. This is NOT for towing or lifting anything heavier than a hanging lamp. Envelope shown for scale, not included.

72d

Free: 1979 Motorboat Equipment Directory (UWS 94/Columbus) No idea where this came from, since I'm not a boater. It's 240 pages; see the cover image for some details of the contents, and then the page I chose at random for an example of a detailed listing. If you're a boater, here's your chance to transport yourself back in time 45 years, without going near the water!

74d

Free: "Internet radio" for tinkerers only (UWS 94/Columbus) Gifted Guaranteed NOT to work—quoting from the Livio website: "All Livio-branded radios will not work, under any circumstances, after January 31, 2021." So there. This item dates from 2010 or so. If there was a manual it's now lost. Hooking it up now, it only makes small pops and the tuning ring lights up, that's all. This is for you if you know your way around electronics, perhaps as a small speaker-amp playing audio from elsewhere, or whatever. Power supply included, not shown in the pics.

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83d

Free: Hearing aid batteries, size 13 (UWS 94/Columbus) Expired These belonged to a late neighbor. There are ten unopened packs of eight batteries each, with an expiry date of 12-24.

97d

Free: Plays, plays and more plays (UWS 94/Columbus) Expired A canvas bag decorated with a sweet feline artwork, full of 15 or so books of plays, some hardbound, mostly paperback, all well worn. Mostly 20th Century American and British playwrights, but one book of Greek tragedies, and one or two that go back to Shakespeare's time, though I don't think he's represented. You must take the lot.

119d

Free: Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide (UWS 94/Columbus) Expired A four-CD set in excellent condition, with all 15 of the Base Ball Guides, published from 1889 to 1939. Each Guide is also (mainly?) a Spalding catalog, showing their elaborate line of baseball-related products, from uniforms to bases to bats to balls; the 1906 edition has just under 400 pages. If you're a baseball nut this set is for you!

119d

Free: Electric Bug Zappers (UWS 94/Columbus) Expired There are two; take one or both. Been laying around for years, never used. They're 20 inches long, roughly the size of a badminton racket. I've seen others in action, and they do work, once you've found your aim. CAUTION: These are not toys! Keep away from kids! Anyone messing with these is in for quite a (literal) shock, since there's thousands of volts present when the button is pressed. Used properly they're quite safe; messed with, they're dangerous.

119d

Free: Catfood (UWS 94/Columbus) Gifted 18 cans of Friskies Paté Liver and Chicken Dinner; after years, my cats now reject it. For the record, they're standard 5.5-ounce cans, eat-by date 12-2025. Yum!

245d

Free: Repost: Business card tray (UWS 94/Columbus) Expired The solution to random piles of business cards. We made this tray to fit a standard (?) desk drawer. It is 15-3/4" wide, 11-5/8" deep and 3-3/4" high, with a floor just the right height for easy access to standard 2-inch-high cards. It holds a gazillion cards, actual count. Alphabetical dividers included, but not the cards; that's your department.

255d

Free: Business card trays (UWS 94/Columbus) Expired The solution to random piles of business cards. We made these two trays to fit a standard (?) desk drawer. They are each 15-3/4" wide, 11-5/8" deep and 3-3/4" high, with a floor just the right height for easy access to standard 2-inch-high cards. They hold a gazillion cards, actual count. Alphabetical dividers included, but not the cards; that's your department.

270d

Free: Classical LPs (UWS 94/Columbus) Expired Posting this for a friend: Exact count not available, but there are a lot of classical LPs—around 100-200, in moving boxes in an elevator building in the Lincoln Center area. They're in good condition. You must take them all.

286d

Free: Ceiling light fixture (UWS 94/Columbus) Expired 20-inch diameter, white enameled steel; excellent condition.

307d

Free: Wooden dining table curbside (UWS 94/Columbus) Expired See the pic. This table is in front of 110 W. 94th Street, as of Thursday afternoon 1-18-24. I didn't measure it, but it looks like about 50" diameter. It looks like it divides for the addition of extensions, but there were none with it. Also, the matching dresser, which you see the back of, is in not good shape; I couldn't make the drawers slide, and there are various dings. You'll need a van and two people to wrestle the table into it.

329d

Free: Black leather man's watchband (UWS 94/Columbus) Expired Never worn; 18mm wide where it attaches to your watch. Includes the little spring-loaded things that do the job.

333d

Free: Coaxial cable for your TV wiring (UWS 94/Columbus) Gifted This is a brand-new, 200-foot coil of RG-6 co-ax, the same stuff Spectrum uses to feed your TV, only theirs is white and this is black. Standard F-connectors on both ends. Impedance is the usual 75 ohms.

348d

Free: Instant ginger tea (UWS 94/Columbus) Expired Seven small boxes (see pic), each holding 14 sachets (small packets) of instant ginger tea; expiry date March 2024. Just add hot water. 'Not only tastes good, it's good for you'

354d

Free: Case for iPhone 15 Pro (UWS 94/Columbus) Expired Clear plastic case, like new; used for only a few days

361d

Free: Eight pounds(!) of greeting cards (UWS 94/Columbus) Expired Not all Christmas. Another year's accumulation from the charities that want our money, and some of them got some of mine. Envelopes included.

1y

Free: 'Sifting pan' cat litter box (UWS 94/Columbus) Expired Brand new, never used. See the pic for details.

1y

Free: Yankees lineup scroll (UWS 94/Columbus) Expired 'Starting Lineups of the New York Yankees, 1975-2014.' Not a rabid Yankees fan? Turn the page. This is a 15" x 36" cloth scroll, made for hanging, with all the names you'd expect, in a format I leave it to you to figure out. Excellent condition.

1y

Request: Exercycle (UWS 94/Columbus) Expired

1y

Free: Furniture leg floor protectors (UWS 94/Columbus) Gifted I ordered 16 small; they sent 32 large. These really work, once the proper ones arrive—the chairs now slide silently where before they made awful noises. The trick is getting the size right, so it goes on and stays on; see the pic for dimensional info.

1y

Free: Bubble-wrap (UWS 94/Columbus) Expired Santa would be proud! This is a Santa-size bag of clean small-bubble bubble-wrap; see the pic (DVD for size reference).

1y