Post by thread:[OT] Speakers (off list)

Mark, you're killing me, I just threw away three PC chassis on saturday that still had those crappy PC speakers still in 'em. I've got a lifetime supply stacked up salvaged from dead PCs and from cell phone handsfree speakers. >I'm out of small cheap speakers though, for testing, darnit > <G> (Used to be able to get one for under a buck, now everyone wants $% > or so?!?) You do realize that you are ENCOURAGING my natural inclination to KEEP stuff like that? My old roommate used to call the stacks of (slightly soggy) cardboard boxes of parts the "electronic landfill". SMILE when you say that... Cheers, Barry. ------------ Barry King, KA1NLH Engineering Manager NRG Systems "Measuring the Wind's Energy" Hinesburg, Vermont, USA http://www.nrgsystems.com

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 09:19:44 -0500, Barry King wrote: >Mark, you're killing me, I just threw away three PC chassis on >saturday that still had those crappy PC speakers still in 'em. I've got >a lifetime supply stacked up salvaged from dead PCs and from cell >phone handsfree speakers. > >>I'm out of small cheap speakers though, for testing, darnit >> <G> (Used to be able to get one for under a buck, now everyone wants $% >> or so?!?) > >You do realize that you are ENCOURAGING my natural inclination >to KEEP stuff like that? My old roommate used to call the stacks of >(slightly soggy) cardboard boxes of parts the "electronic landfill". >SMILE when you say that... > Heh! I am seriously considering *stopping* the expansion of *my* electronic landfill! I have some stuff that I have had soo long that the parts are no longer useful to me because the technology is out of date. (Any one still use tube sockets and old tubes from TV sets?) All of those TTL chips that I spent endless hours desoldering from boards.... Maybe if I was making a space heater or something similar from TTL chips and old PC power supplies... I order just about everything new from Digi-Key these days. Dan

Barry King wrote: > Mark, you're killing me, I just threw away three PC chassis on > saturday that still had those crappy PC speakers still in 'em. I've got > a lifetime supply stacked up salvaged from dead PCs and from cell > phone handsfree speakers. You know, come to think of it, I have a dozen or more spare PC speakers, which I bought so I could replace those whose cords had been cat-chewed / chassis sharp edge chewed. They're not what I normally call a "speaker"; One of those would work just fine for my IR remote receiver, one current project stuck for lack of a speaker (Just an LM386 off a photodiode, and an LED to show DC component of any IR beam); Also would work just fine for a metronome. And that case of old dead phone handsets, hmmm, I think I know what to scavenge from there now. So, I'm now unstuck (These connectors I'm reverse engineering are distractin' me! So close to being done <G>) Great! - Thanks! You didn't make it off list, BTW <G> > >I'm out of small cheap speakers though, for testing, darnit > > <G> (Used to be able to get one for under a buck, now everyone wants $% > > or so?!?) > > You do realize that you are ENCOURAGING my natural inclination > to KEEP stuff like that? My old roommate used to call the stacks of > (slightly soggy) cardboard boxes of parts the "electronic landfill". > SMILE when you say that... I think most of us were poor kids whose only parts they could get were scavanged; I carted off MANY a TV from local curbs, during the "parental units'" divorce. Only way I was going to get parts to play with. Still a good scratch parts source, why NOT recycle for this sort of thing? Of course, if you can keep the habit under control, it's a good thing <G> > Cheers, > > Barry. > ------------ > Barry King, KA1NLH > Engineering Manager > NRG Systems "Measuring the Wind's Energy" > Hinesburg, Vermont, USA > http://www.nrgsystems.com MArk -- I re-ship for small US & overseas businesses, world-wide. (For private individuals at cost; ask.)

Barry wrote: >You do realize that you are ENCOURAGING my natural inclination >to KEEP stuff like that? My old roommate used to call the stacks of >(slightly soggy) cardboard boxes of parts the "electronic landfill". >SMILE when you say that... When my wife (also a ham...) and I moved from the Netherlands to Australia we needed a 40' container to take (apart from some furniture, clothing, books) a tower, antenna's and an endless number of boxes of what other people would call "junk"..... And it comes in handy every day. My idea: "never throw away today what you might use tomorrow". VK2GWK - HENK & VK2GWI - AGNES Home page: http://www.users.bigpond.com/tobbe/index.htm