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!
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.