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| nctnico:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 15, 2023, 05:28:48 am ---I always liked getting tshirts, I can use those. I did realize at one point though about 15 years ago that almost my entire wardrobe consisted of shirts with various company and product logos on them. --- End quote --- I used to have a co-worker like that. His entire wardrobe consisted of T-shirts he got for free. :-DD IMHO a good quality pen goes a long way. Out of all items I get for free, I only use pens. The rest I simply won't even take. If you want to give away something more original, you could think about DMM leads, 4mm banana leads or an oscilloscope probe. Again, these would need to meet some kind of quality standard in order to remain on people's desk and actually have an advertising value. |
| themadhippy:
--- Quote ---I used to have a co-worker like that. His entire wardrobe consisted of T-shirts he got for free. --- End quote --- Hey dont knock it,99% of my t shirts,2 fleeces and a woolly hat are all freebies .As for trade show swag,access to the free bar. |
| coppercone2:
other thing that might be good is a ruler that is high quality like a machinist rule. Some cheap ass engineering department could make it their primary standard from what I have seen a small one like a 4 or 6 inch won't be thrown away because its just too convenient roll up tape measure will be used too but it will likely break and be thrown away, I can see a small ruler lasting 50+ years in a lab if its not stolen |
| WattsThat:
Sometimes, your product is the best thing to give away. A bazillion years ago, when we had Electro Shows in New York, I was an exhibitor (worked for Vishay Resistive Products Group) and the Aavid heat sink guys next to us had a table full of heat sinks they encouraged everyone to paw through and take as many samples as you wanted. TO-3, TO-220 in 50 different forms, you name it, they had it. When they packed up to leave, they said to us, “do any of you guys want any of this crap? It will cost more than it’s worth to get the union goons to box it up”. Needless to say, almost forty years later, there is still a box of pretty different color heat sinks in my parts store. |
| WattsThat:
Speaking of rulers, I have small collection of metal 6 inch scales from different shows. Phoenix Contact had a neat one with a long V cut in one end that was a combined AWG and metric mm^2 wire gauge. Another fav is an old NBS (before it was NIST) “standards to measure by”. Useful stuff hangs around, the rest ends up in the bin. |
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