Packrat? Someone call for packrat?? Do I win?? http://home.earthlink.net/~devinelectronics/Stockroom-Left.jpg http://home.earthlink.net/~devinelectronics/Stockroom-Center.jpg http://home.earthlink.net/~devinelectronics/Stockroom-Right.jpg Howard Winter wrote: >Jinx, > >On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:57:17 +1200, Jinx wrote: > > > >>I did have a bonding session with a >>nephew last year trashing monitor tubes. Ah, fun in >> >> >the sun. Kept > > >>the screen meshes - no idea why but basically if I >> >> >threw them out > > >>I wouldn't have them any more ! >> >> > >At last! I *knew* there was someone in the World who >was more of a packrat than I am... > >:-) > >I gave up dismantling circuit boards for the parts when >I found that my desoldering skills weren't good enough >to be able to use the parts recovered that way, and >anyway it really isn't worth my time to recover a >resistor that only costs a penny new! > >So now I go for whole machines and just keep the >mechanical bits like motors, shafts, bearings, gears and >so on. > >Cheers, > > >Howard Winter >St.Albans, England > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: >[PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads