Re: Getting a stock of basic components
- From: "ke9xq@xxxxxxxxxxx" <ke9xq@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 3 Mar 2007 07:58:02 -0800
Hey Arthur
I have a basment full of goodies, but don't do that much
building... I do want that the other way around, and am working on
it by getting rid of a lot of the stuff.
Every time you or a friend has an electronic device that goes
south, junk it out. I've junked out 30 computers and monitors and as
many radios VCRs and copy machines. TV sets are well worth your time
too, especially the older ones with through hole parts. A good
working TV is worth more to me in parts then in working condition.
You can keep your collection managable if you part out the goodies
as soon as you get them, and if you don't have the time to take the
parts off the circuit boards, then either only take exactly what you
think you want off the board, or get a banana box and start saving
just the board with the components that you'd like to part out at a
later day.
Once a week until you have your collection built up to your
satisfaction you'll be hauling the empty component cases to the dump
or recycling center and as long as there are no hazardus materials in
your garbage it should cost you little or nothing to get rid of. My
comunity recycling center does not take computers anymore, but them
empty shell is really not a computer any more. I'm saving the empty
parts boards, many of which still contain parts that i did not want to
save for a trip to someone that saves these boards for the prescious
metals and he can finish cleaning them up.
This of course will take a lot of time and effort on your part, but
you'll be doing several things at the same time. Saving a few bucks,
recycling environmentally harsh garbage (your part in the green game)
and having a collection of components that will probably be used by
you eventually. Emagine telling your buddy, yup, this was an old VCR
and a Microwave... : )
Hope this gave you an idea or two, I'm sold on the recycling bit,
and you can always purchace the components you don't find in the items
you junk out. Spending 10 bucks on a project is a lot better then
75...
Cheers
Bill
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