What to do with obsolete components and perverce electronic habits! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: MT
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 28, 2015, 04:22:47 pm
content: I have bags and Guatemalan bananaboxes full of components stored in a garage! I cant sell them because noone would buy nonRHOS and its natural obsolete state! For example (everything is brand new) 450 pieces perhaps more, of 68HC000 16Mhz , 2000pieces of 128k SRAM Hitachi , 1 Million no 4 million 0805 resistors, 1 million "1985" 33p capacitors, 10000, "1978" 1w/2,2Kohm carbonmass resistors in ammo belts, i thought these would be fun to use making a statue/sculpture of man making "la resistance" statement!Several trays of 68020 25Mhz! 350pieces 68B50 Uarts in PLCC, tons of logic chips in SO package, these i actually use for prototyping...On and on, i could go on all day! (i do have thrown away some stuff, it was just to much), i also have pervertial habit of dismantlingjunked printers to get the pristine and expensive-to-make stainless steel shaft's. I know some folks make jewellery out of silicon chips.Are you infested with parts of the squirrel gene? What do you do with your obsolete components!Do you have perverse habits that's related to electronics?Edit:perhaps moderators could move this to appropriate section of the forum? Not able to delete/move my self....

author: AF6LJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 28, 2015, 04:29:48 pm
content: E-Bay is your friend.

author: Kilrah
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 28, 2015, 04:36:46 pm
content: Quote from: MT on September 28, 2015, 04:22:47 pmHomebrew supercalculator, just for the fun of it!

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 28, 2015, 05:00:48 pm
content: Quote from: MT on September 28, 2015, 04:22:47 pmwho says nobody want to buy non ROHS? BS! PM your price if you want to sell, are they variety of values, esp the 0805 resistors? i'm short of those...Quote from: MT on September 28, 2015, 04:22:47 pmwe have the same habit the only exception is that you admited it "pervertial" whereas i'm notbecause i keep pretty much everything from the printer's intestine. the motors, steppers, shafts everything incl the board and smps PSU, only big items that are too big to keep like the enclosure and metal chassis i threw away, mostly non electrical stuffs. i counted there are still 10 printers back there that i havent tear apart because the drawer to keep the 24V motors and the drawer to keep the steppers are already full... so i prefer to keep those 10 still intact in their original form. thats.. not pervertial

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 28, 2015, 05:09:17 pm
content: sell it to that pervertial person mechatrommer and the rest on here. If you can bear to part with it, a real horder wouldnt.

author: ralphd
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 28, 2015, 05:34:17 pm
content: Lots of it is still valuable. The retro Mac and Amiga folks could use the 68k CPUs. I also agree that the 0805 resistors are still valuable. I prefer them to 0603 since they are a manageable size.

author: commie
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 28, 2015, 06:41:23 pm
content: Like someone said previous ->go Ebay or what about contacting Jameco and explain to them what you have and perhaps you can gain some interest from them, they deal mostly in obsolete components, I have used them in the past to buy 1 bit drams and lots of other stuff.

author: macboy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 28, 2015, 11:37:31 pm
content: 68000 are nothing special, some are even in production today so not so rare. The 68020 though... extremely hard to come by. A quick search of completed ebay auctions show several selling for up $50 each (including shipping). The same might be true of the 128k SRAMs. This is reasonably big for an SRAM, especially if DIP package, and it will not be hard to find buyers on ebay.

author: ralphd
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 29, 2015, 02:13:43 am
content: Quote from: macboy on September 28, 2015, 11:37:31 pmThey sell for around $4 in small qty, so a lot of 450 could sell for close to $1000.

author: ralphd
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 29, 2015, 02:18:00 am
content: Quote from: macboy on September 28, 2015, 11:37:31 pmThey're worth a lot more than the 68Ks, but not $50. $13 on Aliexpress:http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Mc68020rp25e-32-microprocessor-square-cpu-pga-Electronic-Component/1352842733.html?ws_ab_test=201556_6,201527_3_71_72_73_74_75,201409_5

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 29, 2015, 02:54:21 am
content: Maybe find a parts broker and see what they will give you. Some of those guys specialize in obscure parts so they might be all over old stock.