[sdiy] Recycling Old components

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Saturday 30 September 2006 07:21 am, Dave Kendall wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I've got the lucky job of getting rid of a load of old AV gear from an AV
> facility house store (well, junk heap nearly...). It's all functional
> condition unknown, but some stuff has been stored well and other bits are
> spare cards for old hardware video processors etc.
>
> What sort of stuff is worth recycling?
> There are loads of socketed 74LS ICs on many of the boards, with a handful
> of CMOS, and the odd HCMOS IC. There are some static RAM ICs from a 486
> Mobo. A couple of boards have several TI 2516 and 2532 erasable PROMs.
> There are also loads of Caps - some seem to be ceramic 100nF, and there are
> also large numbers of  small (poly) caps dotted around. Looking at their
> locations, they could possibly be decoupling caps. There are a few what
> look like tantalum caps on the boards too. I've heard the tales about older
> electros being a problem to re-use, what might be worth keeping?
>
> Any thoughts, tales or experiences welcome....

I recycle a *lot* of parts,  and even manage to use some from time to time,  
or find other folks that can use a few of them (though not nearly as much as 
I'd like :-).

I also seem to end up with a fair amount of stuff that folks have "extra" of, 
including tubes of various chips and bags of NOS caps and whatnot.  For a 
small sampling of what I have a *lot* of (there's lots more),  take a look 
here:

http://mysite.verizon.net/rtellason/w4s.html

and by all means let me know if you can use any of this stuff.  Better than it 
ending up in a landfill someplace...

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