On Feb 23, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Jinx wrote:

> Through a family contact I hear of other throw-outs in all kinds
> of businesses, but there's simply too much to take advantage of
> it all

Yeah.  I wish there was an easy way to feed it into engineering
education or something.  "scrap for schools."  Heh.  easier said
than done, I suspect.  It was a couple years ago that I made one
of the kids teachers happy with a batch of wire that our lab techs
apparently get paid too much to untangle...

I find it somewhat depressing when the most useful parts I can
get from what used to be five figures worth of router board are
an inductor or two and some LEDs :-(  But the rest tends to be
fine pitch SMD, much of it custom ASICs.  Generally useless to
the hobbyist, even if you could get it off the board without
damaging it...

BillW
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