where do you find used digital boxes for $10ea. You have peaked my interest.

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"Batman" wrote in message
ink.net...
where do you find used digital boxes for $10ea. You have peaked my
interest.

eBay, where else? :

Rev. "PM", ULC

Paul_Morphy wrote:
"Batman" wrote in message
ink.net...

where do you find used digital boxes for $10ea. You have peaked my

interest.

eBay, where else? :

Rev. "PM", ULC


Be carefull. You'll burn your fingers with those!

"Ken Scharf" wrote in message
. ..

Be carefull. You'll burn your fingers with those!

Funny how they never have the remote controls. I haven't bought one yet. I'm
lamely waiting for someone to tell me it's worthwhile to tear one apart.
This must be the lingering effects of all those Lew McCoy articles I read. I
see a TV, I want to gut it and build ham gear.

"PM"

This must be the lingering effects of all those Lew McCoy articles I read. I
see a TV, I want to gut it and build ham gear.

As I kid I would explore the neighborhood on my bicycle on the days
the trash went out looking for junk TV sets. I had a set of tools
in my pockets to pull out the chassis and would lug them home to
gut. A friend of mine who lived in a house instead of an apartment
would save the chassis whole in the basement (which bugged the
gas man who had to climb over a mountain of tv chassis to read
the gas meter!).

Ken Scharf ) writes:
This must be the lingering effects of all those Lew McCoy articles I read. I
see a TV, I want to gut it and build ham gear.

As I kid I would explore the neighborhood on my bicycle on the days
the trash went out looking for junk TV sets. I had a set of tools
in my pockets to pull out the chassis and would lug them home to
gut. A friend of mine who lived in a house instead of an apartment
would save the chassis whole in the basement (which bugged the
gas man who had to climb over a mountain of tv chassis to read
the gas meter!).

I'm not a kid, but I still carry tools around. And I think there's
a much better selection and quality of electronic junk being tossed
than when I was a kid.

Back then, over thirty years ago, you'd be lucky to find tv sets
and AC/DC radios. And the heat from the tubes tended to collect
all kinds of junk from the air (or maybe it was mainly because people
tended to keep such things in use for so long) so they were terribly
messy. And of course, the components tended to be big and bulky, though
of course since it was in the late tube-era that's the sort of thing
needed for building anyway.

I was out somewhere yesterday, and came across a monitor that had
a bunch of BNC connectors on it. If I hadn't been trying to get somewhere
on time, I would have taken the time to get them off. As it was, there
was no easy way to get that assembly off, so I left them there. I did pull
two boards off, one digital, to strip down later.

Having the tools is great. You can be selective. When you start out,
most of such equipment can be useful, but as the decades drag on, it's
too much trouble to bring the whole thing home. With tools you can
get the equipment open and extract useful parts right on the spot.
So you can pull the variable capacitors off any radio you see. Or
pop open that computer to pull out any memory. I've been grabbing
switching supplies from computers, partly because they are easy to
extract, and originally because I thought I'd reuse them as power
supplies. But there are more than enough for that, so I've started
pulling the boards out of the boxes when I get home, and using
the boxes for other things.

Michael VE2BVW

"Ken Scharf" wrote in message
. ..
This must be the lingering effects of all those Lew McCoy articles I
read. I
see a TV, I want to gut it and build ham gear.

As I kid I would explore the neighborhood on my bicycle on the days
the trash went out looking for junk TV sets. I had a set of tools
in my pockets to pull out the chassis and would lug them home to
gut. A friend of mine who lived in a house instead of an apartment
would save the chassis whole in the basement (which bugged the
gas man who had to climb over a mountain of tv chassis to read
the gas meter!).

Ahaha! I did the same thing. I had a basement full of CRTs. Finally came the
day to discard them, just lined 'em out on the street on garbage day. I
didn't bother to break the seals. I was looking out my bedroom window as the
trash collector tossed the first one around the back edge of the truck. It
blew up! Nice cloud of white phosphor. He treated the rest of them like
nitroglycerin. My Elmer told me how to break the seals so that wouldn't
happen again.

I still get a fair share of parts from salvaged gear.
http://tinyurl.com/34np2 It just doesn't feel like homebrew otherwise. None
of the pictured items remains intact.

Doing a run on QRZ.com, I am wondering if you were at this free flea? I live
up in Stuart but I made it to this one. Passed on Hollywood today to finish
a project, but I'm going to be in Gainesville next weekend.

73,

"PM"

Paul_Morphy wrote:
"Ken Scharf" wrote in message
. ..

This must be the lingering effects of all those Lew McCoy articles I

read. I

see a TV, I want to gut it and build ham gear.

As I kid I would explore the neighborhood on my bicycle on the days
the trash went out looking for junk TV sets. I had a set of tools
in my pockets to pull out the chassis and would lug them home to
gut. A friend of mine who lived in a house instead of an apartment
would save the chassis whole in the basement (which bugged the
gas man who had to climb over a mountain of tv chassis to read
the gas meter!).


Ahaha! I did the same thing. I had a basement full of CRTs. Finally came the
day to discard them, just lined 'em out on the street on garbage day. I
didn't bother to break the seals. I was looking out my bedroom window as the
trash collector tossed the first one around the back edge of the truck. It
blew up! Nice cloud of white phosphor. He treated the rest of them like
nitroglycerin. My Elmer told me how to break the seals so that wouldn't
happen again.

I still get a fair share of parts from salvaged gear.
http://tinyurl.com/34np2 It just doesn't feel like homebrew otherwise. None
of the pictured items remains intact.

Doing a run on QRZ.com, I am wondering if you were at this free flea? I live
up in Stuart but I made it to this one. Passed on Hollywood today to finish
a project, but I'm going to be in Gainesville next weekend.

73,

"PM"


Figures, the one free flea I missed and there were some nice goodies!
My kids were reading stories they wrote for school at Walden books that
morning so I had to go. There was another free flea in Coral Gables
this month, didn't make that one either. Well maybe I'll see you in the
fall at Cy Harris. There used to be a free flea up in Lantana, whatever
happened to that one?

Paul_Morphy wrote:
"Ken Scharf" wrote in message
. ..

This must be the lingering effects of all those Lew McCoy articles I

read. I

see a TV, I want to gut it and build ham gear.

As I kid I would explore the neighborhood on my bicycle on the days
the trash went out looking for junk TV sets. I had a set of tools
in my pockets to pull out the chassis and would lug them home to
gut. A friend of mine who lived in a house instead of an apartment
would save the chassis whole in the basement (which bugged the
gas man who had to climb over a mountain of tv chassis to read
the gas meter!).


Ahaha! I did the same thing. I had a basement full of CRTs. Finally came the
day to discard them, just lined 'em out on the street on garbage day. I
didn't bother to break the seals. I was looking out my bedroom window as the
trash collector tossed the first one around the back edge of the truck. It
blew up! Nice cloud of white phosphor. He treated the rest of them like
nitroglycerin. My Elmer told me how to break the seals so that wouldn't
happen again.

I still get a fair share of parts from salvaged gear.
http://tinyurl.com/34np2 It just doesn't feel like homebrew otherwise. None
of the pictured items remains intact.

Doing a run on QRZ.com, I am wondering if you were at this free flea? I live
up in Stuart but I made it to this one. Passed on Hollywood today to finish
a project, but I'm going to be in Gainesville next weekend.

73,

"PM"


Figures, the one free flea I missed and there were some nice goodies!
My kids were reading stories they wrote for school at Walden books that
morning so I had to go. There was another free flea in Coral Gables
this month, didn't make that one either. Well maybe I'll see you in the
fall at Cy Harris. There used to be a free flea up in Lantana, whatever
happened to that one?

Ken Scharf ) writes:
This must be the lingering effects of all those Lew McCoy articles I read. I
see a TV, I want to gut it and build ham gear.

As I kid I would explore the neighborhood on my bicycle on the days
the trash went out looking for junk TV sets. I had a set of tools
in my pockets to pull out the chassis and would lug them home to
gut. A friend of mine who lived in a house instead of an apartment
would save the chassis whole in the basement (which bugged the
gas man who had to climb over a mountain of tv chassis to read
the gas meter!).

I'm not a kid, but I still carry tools around. And I think there's
a much better selection and quality of electronic junk being tossed
than when I was a kid.

Back then, over thirty years ago, you'd be lucky to find tv sets
and AC/DC radios. And the heat from the tubes tended to collect
all kinds of junk from the air (or maybe it was mainly because people
tended to keep such things in use for so long) so they were terribly
messy. And of course, the components tended to be big and bulky, though
of course since it was in the late tube-era that's the sort of thing
needed for building anyway.

I was out somewhere yesterday, and came across a monitor that had
a bunch of BNC connectors on it. If I hadn't been trying to get somewhere
on time, I would have taken the time to get them off. As it was, there
was no easy way to get that assembly off, so I left them there. I did pull
two boards off, one digital, to strip down later.

Having the tools is great. You can be selective. When you start out,
most of such equipment can be useful, but as the decades drag on, it's
too much trouble to bring the whole thing home. With tools you can
get the equipment open and extract useful parts right on the spot.
So you can pull the variable capacitors off any radio you see. Or
pop open that computer to pull out any memory. I've been grabbing
switching supplies from computers, partly because they are easy to
extract, and originally because I thought I'd reuse them as power
supplies. But there are more than enough for that, so I've started
pulling the boards out of the boxes when I get home, and using
the boxes for other things.

Michael VE2BVW