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Registered Member #3766
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I would recommend a job... It helps when you have some cash behind your projects... like being able to toss $50 towards fets every now and then... or $75 towards analog meters
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Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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My perspective on this comes from living in a smallish apartment in the city. I looked around one day and thought, This place is too full of electronic junk, I can barely move! I need a bigger house. Thinking about it some more, I realised this would cost me a few hundred pounds a month extra. Or I could stay in the same house, throw all of the junk away, and use the money saved to buy brand new components as and when I needed them. So that's what I did, it was a good cure for polyprojectitis too.
Don't worry, I made sure that all of the interesting HV-related parts found new homes.
Finn's metaphor is Feng Shui, I prefer to think of TV guru Dawna Walters gently urging her (usually weeping) clients to "Put it in the crusher!" But we are talking about the same thing.
Registered Member #1403
Joined: Tue Mar 18 2008, 06:05PM
Location: Denmark, Odense C
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Sulaiman wrote ...
Hobbyists of all kinds tend to collect stuff, the trick is to keep the useful or interesting stuff and get rid of the rest. I haven't mastered this trick yet. It seems that every time I have a clear-out I soon need something that I recently disposed of but the wonderful stuff that I keep (my wife just calls it junk) isn't needed yet...
the good news is that once I retire I have enough projects to fill another two or three lifetimes. Just hope I have the energy and enthusiasm.
As for cataloging my stuff .... what fun would it be if I actually knew what I've got and where I put it?
P.S. my 'filing' system is now stackable metal biscuit tins, ... soon to be labeled properly.
Cataloguing all my stuff would take more time than using it for a project... but it is also pretty bad, my girlfriend is not at all too happy about me having 200 kilograms worth of transformers stored in a kitchen counter.
I see there is no reason to tell you about my hoarding when Sulaiman can read minds ;)
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I don't think cabinets are meant to hold that much metal... Someday you're going to open that cabinet and find a nice hole in the bottom of it ;)
@induktion, I looked around, and writing all this junk down would take all day... one where you post what you need and people look around and see if they can get rid of it sounds better. But I guess we already have that.
If you need cash try selling decent junk you don't need. For some reason flybacks seem to sell on ebay.
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I got a lot of stuff that sits. Because like someone said you collect it. The stuff I generally keep are things like large capacitors and what not. I do keep boards in a box box. I need to get rid of it as it's taking up 3 cubic feet and it's filled to the top. For stuff I don't keep, if it's worth my time I will sell it on eBay. Else I'll either trash it or keep it to explode with capacitor banks or high voltage arcs for when im bored or want to experiment. Generally I try to not stock on stuff I don't need unless it's a really good deal and I know I will use them later. But I don't want to sell my cheap but super well built 4KJ capacitor bank because I find it something I will collect. The price I paid, I feel dumb to sell it especially because you can always find time to inject 4KJ to items :)
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Joined: Fri Jan 21 2011, 11:07PM
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Well, I have 4 flyback transformers in good condition I don't need anymore. Apparently I have a light sensitivity issue and well, arcs cause me to have ridiculous migraines.
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What do you guys typically do with stuff you don't use?
