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Sulaiman

Thu Mar 01 2018, 04:18PM

Registered Member #162 Joined: Mon Feb 13 2006, 10:25AM
Location: United Kingdom
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Although I will probably dabble in electronics until I die,
I have a significant quantity of electronic components, assemblies, T.C. stuff, radio stuff .... stuff,
my precious stuff that I've been keeping, I will probably never use.
So, it has to go.

Ideally to a rich kid that wants a diverse electronics kit,
or someone who would make use of it rather than hoard it like I have,
or an educational institution that wants a load of electronic junk,
worst case I'll sell it piece by piece via eBay
but I'd rather some keen young person(s) get it free.

Any ideas where/how I might 'dispose of' my stuff so that it is likely to be used ?
I'd rather not make up 100's parcels/letters.

Dr. Slack

Thu Mar 01 2018, 05:11PM

Registered Member #72 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:29AM
Location: UK St. Albans
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Sulaiman wrote ...

Any ideas where/how I might 'dispose of' my stuff so that it is likely to be used ?
I'd rather not make up 100's parcels/letters.

When you find out, let me know as well.

Hazmatt_(The Underdog)

Sat Mar 03 2018, 04:35PM

Registered Member #135 Joined: Sat Feb 11 2006, 12:06AM
Location: Anywhere is fine
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Do the electronics 'round a bout' again, and whoever wants something can take it from the box.

That and donate some to local colleges.

I'm going through 20 years worth of hoard at work, and the good stuff is going to the design department (because we don't need it), and we are keeping minimal amounts of SMT stuff (because the chances are we will have to buy new for a project anyway), and a decent amount of through-hole (but I have to reduce that as well, like wasting-out 1/8W carbon comps, we'll never use them)

I can't take any of it home (thank god) because I work at a big place, and so the rest just goes off as hazardous waste, which is fine, I probably have 50 lbs of garbage to get rid of.

One day at a time. ^^

AndreiRS

Sat Mar 03 2018, 05:02PM

Registered Member #62109 Joined: Sun Jan 28 2018, 10:00PM
Location: Porto Alegre
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I sold a lot of stuff I don't use, basically today I have my computer, a Tesla coil which still doesn't work well and tools. I don't like having too much stuff that I may or not use, but probably not.

Inducktion

Sun Mar 11 2018, 04:31AM

Registered Member #3637 Joined: Fri Jan 21 2011, 11:07PM
Location: Buffalo, NY
Posts: 1068

You could probably part it out in 'lots' of sorts to help cut down on the number of packages you'd send out.

I'd definitely be interested though, depending on what's available! I'm young and fresh and apt to do things with electronics.

klugesmith

Tue Mar 20 2018, 05:43AM

Registered Member #2099 Joined: Wed Apr 29 2009, 12:22AM
Location: Los Altos, California
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Amateur radio swap meets / hamfests / flea markets bring many interested people together.
This month I paid $30 for a seller's space, for the first time in more than a year, and got rid of a ton of stuff for not much money.
Next month they're going to try a new venue, I think partly because the facility cost will be lower and customer parking will be free instead of $3.

Later, got the leftover stuff packed & organized the best it's been in many years.
Mostly saved not because I will want it some day, but because it's too cool to be e-wasted.
Psychologists are familiar with such extremes of "duty to inanimate things".

Also cleared out the "pressure and flow" shelf in garage. Anybody see something here they want?

Avalanche

Tue Mar 20 2018, 07:03PM

Registered Member #103 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:16PM
Location: Derby, UK
Posts: 845

I've got the same problem here, I've given some stuff away in the past but what I've realised is that if you want to get rid of the stuff responsibly (i.e. to a good home rather than the dustbin) then it doesn't happen fast - the clearout becomes an ongoing process and you have to stay on top of it and look for opportunities to get rid. I save an awful lot of stuff from work that is headed to the dustbin with the hope of re-distributing it to a useful cause (anyone need any 4700uF 40V electrolytics? I have hundreds).

Something I'm going to start doing is putting together 'mixed components' boxes and sticking them on eBay. I actually bought one of these type of boxes many years ago and it was a great start to the hobby. I probably would never have managed to get into experimental electronics if it wasn't for things like this, bags of resistors and random components. I wouldn't have known where to start at the time with finding my own components so it only seems right to keep the tradition going and help folks out in a similar way to how I've been helped out in the past.

Ash Small

Mon Apr 30 2018, 09:43PM

Registered Member #3414 Joined: Sun Nov 14 2010, 05:05PM
Location: UK
Posts: 4245

Avalanche, I need 30 4700uF 40V electrolytics, I was pricing them up just now.

I just posted about an RC power supply smoothing circuit in my post about thermal and shot noise.

I'm also after 3000uF total of motor run caps, or similar, if anyone has spare motor run caps.

Avalanche

Tue May 01 2018, 08:08AM

Registered Member #103 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:16PM
Location: Derby, UK
Posts: 845

PM sent

can't help with the motor run caps though I'm afraid, that's a lot of uF!

Hydron

Tue May 01 2018, 01:17PM

Registered Member #30656 Joined: Tue Jul 30 2013, 02:40AM
Location: UK
Posts: 208

If you have a look on ebay etc you can find some large film caps for DC link applications. One I found a while back is here:

https://www.it-tronics.de/en/Electronic-Components/Capacitors/Film-Capacitors/Radial.html?Page=1&Items=30&Filter={%22category%22:[32]}&sort=5&view=list (seller website)
(apparently the seller is a bit unhelpful though)

Also last year there were a bunch of german ebay sellers with boxes of 40uF/1100V film caps selling for about 1GBP/capacitor in boxes of 27 pieces

Kizmo managed to get about 6000uF worth of film caps I think (4x1500uF @ 700V?) but that was a lucky find, ones that big don't show up that often.

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