Free milk float
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James Darling
Nov 25, 2009, 3:19:01 PM11/25/09
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Hi,
As some of you may know, I own a 1987 milk float: http://www.flickr.com/photos/abscond/collections/72157606330424349/
It's now free to a good home. I thought I'd try hackspace first.
First, the reasons for giving it away: I've been failing to find the time and knowledge to wire the charger into my home fuse box for a long time now (I have however driven it about 2 miles, so it does work), and I'm planning to move flats in the next few months, so would like to see it go to a good home. It cost me £500 to buy, but would rather see it go to a good home, and quickly, than hassle with money.
Why you should have one:
* It's free
* It's MOT void, so no MOT required, and therefore, no road tax needs paying
* It's congestion charge free
* Many councils, eg westminster, have free parking schemes on all council parking spaces
* It costs roughly 1p/mile to run. The only additional cost is insurance.
* It's beautifully low tech. You can follow every wire, and even I can understand how each part works.
* http://www.milkfloats.org.uk/faq.html tells you more, and has a lightly active mailing list of milk float geeks.
It's free, but I would require you come and take it away. Worst situation, you pay a tow van to do it for you. It cost me £80 to move it from south south London (M25) to north north London (North Circular)
If anyone's interested, let me know. If I get no responses here, I'll be advertising on the milkfloats mailing list.
--
James Darling
@abscond | 07811407085 | http://abscond.org
Rude? I loosely follow http://five.sentenc.es
As some of you may know, I own a 1987 milk float: http://www.flickr.com/photos/abscond/collections/72157606330424349/
It's now free to a good home. I thought I'd try hackspace first.
First, the reasons for giving it away: I've been failing to find the time and knowledge to wire the charger into my home fuse box for a long time now (I have however driven it about 2 miles, so it does work), and I'm planning to move flats in the next few months, so would like to see it go to a good home. It cost me £500 to buy, but would rather see it go to a good home, and quickly, than hassle with money.
Why you should have one:
* It's free
* It's MOT void, so no MOT required, and therefore, no road tax needs paying
* It's congestion charge free
* Many councils, eg westminster, have free parking schemes on all council parking spaces
* It costs roughly 1p/mile to run. The only additional cost is insurance.
* It's beautifully low tech. You can follow every wire, and even I can understand how each part works.
* http://www.milkfloats.org.uk/faq.html tells you more, and has a lightly active mailing list of milk float geeks.
It's free, but I would require you come and take it away. Worst situation, you pay a tow van to do it for you. It cost me £80 to move it from south south London (M25) to north north London (North Circular)
If anyone's interested, let me know. If I get no responses here, I'll be advertising on the milkfloats mailing list.
--
James Darling
@abscond | 07811407085 | http://abscond.org
Rude? I loosely follow http://five.sentenc.es
Jonty Wareing
Nov 25, 2009, 3:57:04 PM11/25/09
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I vote we turn it into the hackfloat! Does anyone have somewhere we could park it?
--jonty
Charles Yarnold
Nov 25, 2009, 4:06:45 PM11/25/09
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I agree, sadly I don't have any where to park it :(
2009/11/25 Jonty Wareing <jo...@jonty.co.uk>
I vote we turn it into the hackfloat! Does anyone have somewhere we could park it?
--jonty
Mark Steward
Nov 28, 2009, 3:52:41 PM11/28/09
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I can get a Camden permit, and I understand we have some Islington
residents. It would be free for street parking, and somewhere near
the space would have a reasonably low risk of vandalism...
Anyone watch the latest Top Gear?
--
Mark
On Nov 25, 8:57 pm, Jonty Wareing <jo...@jonty.co.uk> wrote:
> I vote we turn it into the hackfloat! Does anyone have somewhere we could park it?
>
> --jonty
>
>
>
> James Darling <ja...@abscond.org> wrote:
residents. It would be free for street parking, and somewhere near
the space would have a reasonably low risk of vandalism...
Anyone watch the latest Top Gear?
--
Mark
On Nov 25, 8:57 pm, Jonty Wareing <jo...@jonty.co.uk> wrote:
> I vote we turn it into the hackfloat! Does anyone have somewhere we could park it?
>
> --jonty
>
>
>
> James Darling <ja...@abscond.org> wrote:
> >Hi,
>
> >As some of you may know, I own a 1987 milk float:
> >http://www.flickr.com/photos/abscond/collections/72157606330424349/
>
> >It's now free to a good home. I thought I'd try hackspace first.
>
> >First, the reasons for giving it away: I've been failing to find the time
> >and knowledge to wire the charger into my home fuse box for a long time now
> >(I have however driven it about 2 miles, so it does work), and I'm planning
> >to move flats in the next few months, so would like to see it go to a good
> >home. It cost me £500 to buy, but would rather see it go to a good home, and
> >quickly, than hassle with money.
>
> >Why you should have one:
> >* It's free
> >* It's MOT void, so no MOT required, and therefore, no road tax needs paying
> >* It's congestion charge free
> >* Many councils, eg westminster, have free parking schemes on all council
> >parking spaces
> >* It costs roughly 1p/mile to run. The only additional cost is insurance.
> >* It's beautifully low tech. You can follow every wire, and even I can
> >understand how each part works.
> >*http://www.milkfloats.org.uk/faq.htmltells you more, and has a lightly
>
> >As some of you may know, I own a 1987 milk float:
> >http://www.flickr.com/photos/abscond/collections/72157606330424349/
>
> >It's now free to a good home. I thought I'd try hackspace first.
>
> >First, the reasons for giving it away: I've been failing to find the time
> >and knowledge to wire the charger into my home fuse box for a long time now
> >(I have however driven it about 2 miles, so it does work), and I'm planning
> >to move flats in the next few months, so would like to see it go to a good
> >home. It cost me £500 to buy, but would rather see it go to a good home, and
> >quickly, than hassle with money.
>
> >Why you should have one:
> >* It's free
> >* It's MOT void, so no MOT required, and therefore, no road tax needs paying
> >* It's congestion charge free
> >* Many councils, eg westminster, have free parking schemes on all council
> >parking spaces
> >* It costs roughly 1p/mile to run. The only additional cost is insurance.
> >* It's beautifully low tech. You can follow every wire, and even I can
> >understand how each part works.
Russ Garrett
Nov 29, 2009, 1:05:42 PM11/29/09
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On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 12:52 -0800, Mark Steward wrote:
> I can get a Camden permit, and I understand we have some Islington
> residents. It would be free for street parking, and somewhere near
> the space would have a reasonably low risk of vandalism...
I am an Islington resident, so in principle this would work fine.
> I can get a Camden permit, and I understand we have some Islington
> residents. It would be free for street parking, and somewhere near
> the space would have a reasonably low risk of vandalism...
However I suspect they would allocate me a parking area close to my home
address, so it wouldn't be near the space.
Also it's worth noting that if we had it, we'd really need to park it
close to somewhere we can get the non-trivial amount of electricity to
charge the thing.
I'd really like to get this but I suspect issues of practicality will
prevail.
Russ
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