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- From: philip@mentorg.com (Philip Peake)
- Subject: Re: Canabalism of old electronics
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.205126.15568@news.mentorg.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:51:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.203808.25583@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>, mark stephens <stephens@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
- |> Perhaps this is a stupid question but... for those in the home hobbiest
- |> arena, do yall routinely canabalise old radios, TVs, etc. for spare
- |> parts? Seems like there should be some good components to be had such as
- |> pots, transformers and so on. I don't know if its worth extracting
- |> resistors, though.
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- When I started playing with electronics ... about 30 years ago ... that
- was exactly what I did. It was the only way I could afford to play.
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- Things are not so easy these days, with lots of custom ICs and
- PCB mounted resistors etc leaving leads which are a little
- on the short side, as well as being more difficult to remove.
-
- Philip
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