🚀 go-pugleaf

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.
>

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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