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Free: Printer cartridges (Langley SL3) 7 Epson printer cartridges, old, but still sealed in plastic, so if you have the right kind of printer, they should still work. 3 black, 2 cyan, one “light cyan”, and one magenta. Part numbers T0481, T0482, T0485 and T0453 respectively. I have no idea what model(s) of printer they fit.

3h

Free: Old very slow laptop (Langley SL3) Gifted It’s very temperamental, ever since my Scouts were doing a presentation with it, and tried to connect some external speakers. Who in their right mind makes the power supply for external speakers use a 3.5mm jack plug? It fried the headphone socket , and possibly other things inside as well. I’ve cleaned it of all the stuff I had on it and tried loading Ubuntu. It works, but incredibly slowwwwly. Like I try opening Firefox and five minutes later it opens. Basically I think it’s a heap of fertiliser but if someone wants to try to use it, feel free! Oh and the battery is dead, so wobble the power lead and it dies.

130d

Free: Wool-winder (Langley SL3) Gifted It’s a little gadget for winding wool into balls for knitters. I bought it to see if it would wind up string, but I couldn’t get it to make a tight-enough ball for what I wanted. But for wool it would be fine. Box and instructions included.

136d

Free: Wall-mounted shelf unit (Langley SL3) Gifted It’s an old Ikea shelf unit, similar (but a bit larger) to the one in the second picture. This one is actually 190cm x 35cm. With fittings - though you’ll need your own wall-plugs, depending on what kind of wall you have.

138d

Free: regatta brand 85L rucksack (Langley SL3) Gifted Grey, “Survivor” model supposedly 85 litres. Enough pockets and zips to drive anyone crazy. Built-in raincover. Some cosmetic damage on the lid.

138d

Free: Audio cables (Langley SL3) Gifted Two long audio cables. One has 3.5mm stereo jack plugs on each end and is about 5m long. The other has a mono 3.5mm jack at one end and a mono 6.35mm jack at the other and is about 3m long. I bought them trying to connect a laptop to our church electronic organ but eventually came up with a better solution.

144d

Free: Kit bag (Langley SL3) Gifted Grey heavy-duty kit bag, about 40 litre capacity (roughly 30cm diameter x 60 long when open) One small square zip pocket on the side, one big zip compartment on the bottom. One shoulder strap and a grab handle on the side. Drawstring top.

145d

Free: Acer Aspire laptop 1TB hard disk (Langley SL3) Gifted Loaded with Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS operating system, not Windows. Otherwise cleaned out completely. Note: BATTERY IS DEAD. It will only work when plugged in to the power supply. The power supply is included.

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160d

Free: Old car tires (Langley SL3) Expired At least 25 old car tires, take as many of them as you want. They can make planters.

168d

Free: Strawberry Grow Bags (Langley SL3) Gifted I was helping a friend clear out her garden shed and persuaded her to Freegle this. I think it’s a “middle of Lidl” bargain thing. A pack of two cloth bag things for growing strawberries. You can probably read the description from the photo. Never used, still in original packaging

234d

Free: Mini-polytunnel (Langley SL3) Gifted For growing stuff, like the big market gardeners do, only in miniature. About 3m long by 60cm wide and 50cm high. I don’t think it’s ever been used, just been sitting in my friend’s garden shed for a couple of years. There’s two tent-pegs still sealed in a little bag attached to it, for pegging down the ends. Great for protecting your seedlings from the frost or the birds.

234d

Free: Large cardboard boxes (Langley SL3) Expired Three large cardboard boxes from an IKEA sofa delivery. About 160 x 80 cm I’m thinking more useful for crafting rather than packing. You’d get some useful-sized sheets if you want to make something festive like one of those fake fireplaces for Santa to come down. If nobody wants them, they’ll go to the tip.

1y

Free: Sliding cupboard door kit - never used (Langley SL3) Gifted 2 1.8m tracks, with 20 top and bottom fittings. I bought them so long ago that I can't remember where I got them from, but I think they are pretty much identical to these: Brown, two complete tracks top and bottom, twenty sets of top and bottom fittings. (enough for 10 separate doors). I was supposed to be replacing a set of cupboard doors at our local church, but in the end the whole cupboards were replaced instead (after years of procrastination) and these fittings got forgotten.

1y

Free: Work light (Langley SL3) Gifted Portable 5W LED work light. It works, but it’s horrible. Probably designed by Satan on one of his off days. It’s very bright. But... when the battery gets low it just turns off with no warning. You can’t operate it while it is charging, and the charger got broken anyway. (I’m not selling it very well, am I?) I charge it from a 12v battery when I use it, with the bit of lead from the old dead charger.

1y

Free: 2 short 4-way leads (Langley SL3) Gifted Two small 4-way extension leads. “4-gang” is the correct term, so don’t all gang up on me. They’re old, but still serviceable. I’m a qualified PAT tester, so I did them just now to check. One has been around long enough for the plastic to start going brown, but otherwise they are both fine.

1y

Free: 10m coaxial cable (Langley SL3) Gifted 10metre long coaxial cable, white. 75-ohms impedance. Great if you’ve got a big room and you want to put your tv a long way from the aerial socket.

1y