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- From: cstadbg@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M J Brown)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Canabalism of old electronics
- Message-ID: <1hupkaINNqfm@lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 12:38:34 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.203808.25583@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1992Dec21.205126.15568@news.mentorg.com>
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- In article <1992Dec21.205126.15568@news.mentorg.com> philip@mentorg.com (Philip Peake) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >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.
- >
- >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.
- >
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- Usually resistors arent worth bothering with, but just about anything else,
- including direct soldered ics, SMT, connectors is fair game to me, as long
- as I have the trusty Black and Decker heat gun !! Using one of them you can
- clear something like a standard PC or AT motherboard sized PCB in about
- 15 minutes, with hardly any casualties!
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