> During many years I use to store several thousand parts, pulled, used,
> new, tested, untested, etc.After spending many hours per year just to
> sort and save, I realize that my time values much more than the
> component cost, so, at least for small and low cost parts (as resistors,
> etc) I don't care anymore, from protoboard to trash

Me too. I collected and stripped pre-loved equipment for a few years
and have more than enough reserves of caps and resistors. I'll still
take more exotic trash like fax machines for the motors, LCDs,
switches and so on. Hardware is the most economic to go after (eg
a couple of minutes to envulturate a $100 LCD), or hard-to-get pieces
like the IR receivers mentioned the other day, but 1/8W resistors ? Nah

Make friends with a repair shop, it only goes to the tip anyway

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