[Re: workshops]

[Harry Bissell]

Here Here:
    The best source of parts is industrial-military complex waste. My company
(recently acquired) just emptied a warehouse and threw everything in the garbage.
I couldn't get to look over everything so I know lots made it to the landfill
(like 10's of thousands of NOS carbon comp resistors). My rank allowed me to defy
authority and    take parts home (against orders... they wanted everything in the
trash). They didn't offer to donate the stuff to a school... even taking apart
stuffed boards is good training.
    So I set aside a bunch of NOS A-B pots (the old metal can sealed units) to
tale home.
The B at stards they them in the dumpster. At 6:00 PM I was (you guessed it)
"dumpster diving" with a big trash bag... They even paid someone to take them out
of the cardboard boxes before throwing them in the scrap-metal bin...
    I have a fantasy that there are DEMONS in some far corner of HELL. THe company
managers are tormented... the demons shriek "I'LL LET YOU OUT OF HELL IF ONLY YOU
CAN GIVE ME AN ALLEN-BRADLEY TYPE J 10K POT.... AWWW... YOU DON'T HAVE ANY...
GEE...  THAT'S TOO BAD.....I'M SORRY...."
    The moral is keep your eyes open for a bargain... Dumpsters are a great source
of parts....    :^) Harry (Jacques Costeau of the big metal ocean) Bissell

"M.Ruberto" wrote:

> I know some of you have already advised against used parts but i use em
> everywhere. i'm a poor bastard, and although i love my hobby, i can hardly
> afford it. a great source of used parts is a junkyard in close proximity to a
> military base. i lived by this yard a few towns over from a navy base and you
> wouldn't believe the stuff those folks threw out! on my way home from work one
> day i stopped in and found a huge box full of power transformers, 23 in all,
> and what quality stuff... EXPENSIVE. after a closer look i noticed that they
> all had inventory stickers on them. they were all unused! some were scratched
> up but they all worked beautifully. to this day i have no shortage of trannys.
> i also make friends with people who own TV and stereo repair shops who'll give
> me stuff by the truckload if i want it. i test every part before i use it and
> the amount of used parts that are bad or fail is about the same as the amount
> of new parts that are bad and fail. my weird little modular is comprised of
> about 25 - 30% used parts. believe it or not i've had plenty of new parts fail
> on it already and only 2 used parts that i had to swap out for being out of
> tolerance. so stick that in yer pipe and smoke it you used part naysayers. hey
> i'm saving money, and in all truth, not compromising the quality of my
> circuits. just gotta watch out and enjoy tearing things apart. my 3 cents.
> Mike.
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