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brtaman

Fri Aug 28 2009, 03:16PM

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What's going on with the box? It has been over three weeks. sprite must be quite bussy or on vacation?

Sprite_tm

Mon Aug 31 2009, 02:30PM

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A bit of both. I already have opened the box, gotten out what I want and put in some goodies you people can use, but with HAR2009 and after that some personal stuff going on I just haven't come around to sending the box. Wednesday is my day off, I'll try to post pictures and mail the box then. Sorry for my tardiness...

Dalus

Mon Aug 31 2009, 02:44PM

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those things can happen anyway next stop is WaveRider

brtaman

Tue Sep 01 2009, 03:34AM

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Yeah, of course real life always takes or at least should take priority over hobbies. :)

Was just a bit curious, better for me as well, now I will at least have nice parts to add into the junk-box. ;)

Conundrum

Wed Sep 02 2009, 02:15AM

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lol... btw if anyone is interested i have yet more goodies including a bag of 1W 808nm LD's, any use?

brtaman

Wed Sep 02 2009, 04:58PM

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Conundrum wrote ...

lol... btw if anyone is interested i have yet more goodies including a bag of 1W 808nm LD's, any use?

Pump diodes are always of use. :)

However, if you have an entire bag may I suggest the markets of laserpointerforums and photonlexicon, with a good price they would get snatched up immediately.

Conundrum

Wed Sep 02 2009, 06:22PM

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by "bag" i mean five of them. i also have an unused HD-DVD drive and two BRIR PS3 diodes here.

Sprite_tm

Thu Sep 03 2009, 12:57PM

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Argh, again I didn't get around to it :X I did upload the pics, so I can give you that. Clickie = pic in its 15Mpixel full size.

The box, as it arrived at my place.

The box, mostly unpacked. Holy crap, there are quite a lot of goodies inthere!

The remaining stuff.

This is what I took out.

And here's what I put back:

Leds, anyone? These modules all have very bright flux-leds in them, in an 8x8 matrix. Most of the modules have one or two dead leds, though. Use them for the leds or to make your own dotmatrix-display, you decide.

And these thingies are small modules to power e.g. a white led from a low-voltage source, e.g. a single AA.

I'm still quite busy until next week :/ I hope to be able to send it that wednesday.

Sprite_tm

Wed Sep 09 2009, 08:29AM

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And the box is in the mail. Barcode = 3SPWPS6711364, should be trackable starting tonight on

(Dutch site only, sorry.)

Kizmo

Thu Sep 17 2009, 06:02AM

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Box arrived to Rovaniemi today!

I have to borrow car to pick it up. Will report later.

Conundrum

Mon Sep 28 2009, 12:09PM

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any news?

Kizmo

Tue Sep 29 2009, 09:50AM

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I have been terribly busy for last few weeks but here it is, finally!

It seems to be intact. I will post more detailed pics later today.

WaveRider

Sat Oct 03 2009, 05:11AM

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Maybe it will come my way one day!

Dalus

Sun Oct 04 2009, 01:16PM

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Waverider, Sprite had kizmo's adress first but I did send him an updaate so he seems to forgot that

So I'll put you in the path back to Conundrum

Conundrum

Fri Nov 13 2009, 06:02PM

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hi all. i was looking into starting an "uk only" junk box, is anyone interested?

regards, =A

Dalus

Sun Nov 15 2009, 04:11PM

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Kizmo has sent to box to MadsKaizer

Conundrum

Sat Dec 19 2009, 10:39AM

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anyone know where it is now?

its not looking good, both boxes have been "lost" ...

Kizmo

Sat Dec 26 2009, 05:25PM

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Sorry for not updating or being online lately. The box is still here.. had some troubles with sending and then ran out of money because of personal problems BUT all will be fixed soon!

Box will leave my place next monday and i will post some pics.

(and to compensate my screwup i will put some real treasures in there)

Happy holidays and take care!

Conundrum

Sun Dec 27 2009, 08:24AM

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ok, good to know its not missing.

Am taking part in a UK only (including CI) box.. will see what goodies show up.

reckon a flat CRT is too heavy/fragile to post?

regards, -A

Dalus

Sat Jan 02 2010, 01:10PM

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Kizmo any news?

Dalus

Thu May 27 2010, 05:55AM

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If Kizmo gets this box going I want to make sure things like this never happen again. I'd Like to get the box back to me and host it from here in a similar way as done with the USA one. This is much safer and cheaper.

Kizmo said that he didn't have the money to send the box to here. Are there people willing to contribute to getting this box moving again?

If you don't like the idea of a virtual box please tell me.

Conundrum

Sat Jul 24 2010, 10:15AM

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how much postage does it need?

i wonder if MadsKaizer and others would be happy to contribute a little towards the postage to get the box moving again?

Nicko

Sun Aug 08 2010, 10:43AM

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I still have this - what shall I do with it?

Is there a consensus?

Cheers

Conundrum

Mon Aug 09 2010, 02:29PM

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hm..
how much is the post to send it on to the next EU junkbox recipient?

pm chris maybe?

-A

Dalus

Wed Aug 18 2010, 11:31AM

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Nicko wrote ...

I still have this - what shall I do with it?

Is there a consensus?

Cheers

Think you have the UK/EU one. If I recall correctly I've sent you a pm for the next person in the list. An alternative option is to use the USA system where all junk is stored centrally so we save on postage. Just tell me what you think is best

Kizmo

Mon Nov 08 2010, 01:05PM

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EDIT:

See my last update

Freitsu

Sun Nov 28 2010, 01:29PM

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Is this thing still going around? I'd love to get it here and maybe add some goodies too! I noticed that the box is in Finland still, correct? Would be nice if it could tour a little more in Finland! ;)

Dalus

Sun Dec 12 2010, 07:37AM

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I decided to have the box send back to me. It will be centralized to avoid more mishaps like this. More details will come later when I have the box and found time to post on the wiki.

Kizmo

Mon Feb 28 2011, 05:26AM

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1 year 4 months 28 days 19 hours 37 minutes 34 seconds later the story continues.

The box is now travelling to Dalus and should arrive in 6-8 days.

Its indeed lot of junk and unfortunately some of the items were damaged at same point.

Removed damaged items:

TFT screen (cracked)
Small colar cells (bent/snapped/cracked)
Unknown circuit boards (missing components, torn traces)

Items out:

- damaged ones
- Game boy + printer
- VU meter
- three LED panels
- Some film caps
- 3x PCI gfx cards and some other pcbs

Items in:

- 2800VAC 1.4µF capacitor from large microwave
- 1µF 4000VDC capacitor from tube transmitter
- 100A 2-pole switch/breaker thing
- Infineon 1200V 600A pulsed half bridge IGBT module FF300R12KE3
- Puck SCRs
- Stud SCR
- 1600V 50A 3 phase rectifier
- 2x factory made Steve Wards DRSSTC boards
- surprise

Box has seen better days but i believe it will stay together since i used half a roll of tape.

And i tried to use as much filler material as possible.

Some pics:

Dalus

Thu Apr 14 2011, 04:56AM

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The box has arived. I'm currently a bit busy. But I'll set up a wiki page and will be indexing the contents shortly.

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