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If you are in Auckland, New Zealand and want to top up all your electronic bins i HIGHLY recommend you contact this guy and go fill up a BIG box when he's next on site (usually 10am-1pm)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/103240780206937/permalink/461381951059483/
Bring cash !

Please note: The guy is looking for people to buy like 3kg+ boxes of stuff at a time. Don't go and ask how much for 1 DPDT switch!  :box:

He's slowly taking it all away for scrap. Most of the copper transformer wire has gone. It's the entire basement of a house packed wall to wall with shelves full of stuff.
Price is $10 per kg but if you help him carry some stuff out to his truck you may get it even cheaper.
He's could use some help. When you see just how much stuff is there for him to clear out you will understand.


A lot of it is total junk. Lots of rusty metal, metalwork gear, old pcbs, and random old junk.
However maybe 1/3 of it is wall to wall electronic parts and maybe 1/4 of that is *brand new old stock*.

Switches
Fuses
Resistors, (TH, inc high power)
Capacitors (TH, lectrolytic /film etc)
Inductors
Digital 4000 series (TH)
Transistors (TH)
New Panel meters in boxes
Boxes full of 2.54mm connectors stacked to the roof.
Boxes stacked high full of DB9 connectors and backshells
Screws
Wire
Heatshrink

There's no SMT stuff, so keep that in mind

Honestly i can't do it justice just how much stuff is there. I have never in my life seen so much electronics in one place.
You have to walk past a lot of junk to get to the good electronic area in the back.

If you're thinking.."Ah the good stuff is probably all gone already" it's not.
(Although.. we did already take boxes of old German audio grade film caps that sell for $10 each on ebay hehehe.  I'm sure there's more jems like that though, just too much stuff to check everywhere)

There is so much stuff hidden under things, or areas that you just can't get to yet because there is too much stuff in the way.
You might pull out an unassuming box of old switches and find a bag full of 500 brand new DPDT toggles in the back. etc..

What you see in this pic is probably 1/6 of the electronic area alone.


« Last Edit: December 31, 2018, 03:56:30 am by Psi »
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Anyone willing to grab stuff and ship to those of us not lucky enough to live nearby?


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I told a friend to go along and made him a funny map of it, just because, lol.



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I told a friend to go along and made him a funny map of it, just because, lol.

Oh, so it's like my apartment, just bigger.
 

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Small section of it.

« Last Edit: January 19, 2019, 10:44:50 am by Psi »
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How much for the 10x 22R 10W resistors?  ...  :-) .... fooook .. how did he work in there ? or find anything ? My mess is 100x less :-)
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Thats hoarding, thats a #$^ mess ??  never saw that  :palm:
 

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Oh my god.
I'm glad that's not in Sydney.
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PLEASE tell me someone went through with a real camera and did a proper tour?
 

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Oh wow.... I wonder how far away from me that is, certainly looks like it is worth a drive!
Cheers Scott

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Oh wow.... I wonder how far away from me that is, certainly looks like it is worth a drive!
I was just thinking of you when i saw the location  :popcorn:
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If you are in Auckland, New Zealand and want to top up all your electronic bins i HIGHLY recommend you contact this guy and go fill up a BIG box when he's next on site (usually

Look more like it might have been Christchurch.

I don't feel quite so bad now. I thought my junk heap was bad. But it really isn't.
 

Offline hendorog

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Am gutted - but also a bit relieved - I was not in town when this was going on...

Anyone got any more info/pics?
 

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Look more like it might have been Christchurch.
I don't feel quite so bad now. I thought my junk heap was bad. But it really isn't.

Nope Auckland,
I wont give the actual address as i'm sure he doesn't want random people turning up unannounced.
You will have to contact him from the Facebook link in first post and get the details yourself.
« Last Edit: January 23, 2019, 06:35:07 am by Psi »
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PLEASE tell me someone went through with a real camera and did a proper tour?

Nope, not yet.
I've been there twice but the guy in change is only on site for an hour or 2 so some days.
So you really don't have time to shoot video AND get stuff.
It was a mad dash just to look everywhere and throw stuff into a box.

There is a small chance i will go back with a friend from work.
If i do i will try to get more video showing the stuff actually on the shelves. But it will be cellphone video. Maybe some canon 40D DSLR stills.

No guarantees .
« Last Edit: January 23, 2019, 06:31:44 am by Psi »
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What is the back story to this place?
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From what i could gather it's a mix of parts from a transformer winding business and inventory from 2 or 3 companies that used to produce electronic goods but went out of business. All collected over 40+ years.
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PLEASE tell me someone went through with a real camera and did a proper tour?

Nope, not yet.
I've been there twice but the guy in change is only on site for an hour or 2 so some days.
So you really don't have time to shoot video AND get stuff.
It was a mad dash just to look everywhere and throw stuff into a box.

There is a small chance i will go back with a friend from work.
If i do i will try to get more video showing the stuff actually on the shelves. But it will be cellphone video. Maybe some canon 40D DSLR stills.

No guarantees .

Aw crap now look what you have done, so it hasn't gone to scrap yet?!?!
 

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Nope will definitely be lots of stuff still there. I dunno how much 'good' stuff is left though.

That video i posted above was taken by a friend on 19th Jan,

He is slowly taking it away for scrap as time permits (~trailer load per day), but there's so much stuff there that it's taking months.
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Nope will definitely be lots of stuff still there. I dunno how much 'good' stuff is left though.
lots still there. I dunno how much good stuff is gone though.
That video i posted above was taken by a friend on 19th Jan,

Aha copy that - I read on the facebook page that it was being dumped on the 29th Dec so thought I had missed the boat.

Might be worth a visit.
 

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He started taking it to the dump on 29th Dec.
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Look more like it might have been Christchurch.
I don't feel quite so bad now. I thought my junk heap was bad. But it really isn't.

Nope Auckland,
I wont give the actual address as i'm sure he doesn't want random people turning up unannounced.
You will have to contact him from the Facebook link in first post and get the details yourself.

It was a reference to the earthquake. Is it really eight years ago.
 

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Honestly, this may have been one of the most useful uses of vertical video I've ever seen  :-DD
It looks like literally floor-to-ceiling stuff. That's how you do it  :-+
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The guy hasn’t responded to me on FB, I doubtbthere is much worth going there for by now anyway, the good stuff is likely already gone.
Cheers Scott

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I just went back today (27 Jan) and got a few more things.
Mainly just helped a friend find stuff he was after, and I took the DSLR for some pics.

Here's ~100 photos i took today - https://photos.app.goo.gl/pK4H4VLMRN4peQGT8
There is also a cellphone video coming with some narration. I will link it here when he puts it on YouTube.



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« Last Edit: January 27, 2019, 04:07:11 am by Psi »
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