what if you had to use every part in your collection?

[coppercone2]

What kind of crazy things would happen if you had to use every part in your collection boxes?

Can you even imagine it?

[TerraHertz]

Define 'use' ?

I mean, I could mix them with concrete and build a wall with the cast concrete bricks.

[AndyC_772]

I maintain that the best use for a great many parts, currently sitting unused on shelves as they have been since they were made decades ago, involves compressed air and a dart board. Got a tube of original 74 series logic gates, or a job lot of 555 timers? Try to hit the bullseye from the other side of the lab, and no points for a part that bounces out.

Given that I can have almost anything I actually need delivered free to my front door next day, I see no reason to waste valuable space on a random 'collection' of parts at all. I keep a simple lab stock of totally generic items like resistors and wire, but that's all. Any other parts I have are just the surplus from when I've bought complete kits for projects and not built them all up for some reason.

I wonder, what would be the optimum barrel geometry and gas pressure to shoot the old OS-CONs I have taking up space on my top shelf?

[nctnico]

What kind of crazy things would happen if you had to use every part in your collection boxes?

Can you even imagine it?

I'd give them away and likely enable a hoarder. Like giving heroine to an addict... I feel guilty but it is so easy to have junk picked up instead of bringing it to the dump 

[Gregg]

What kind of crazy things would happen if you had to use every part in your collection boxes?

Can you even imagine it?

I'd live a Long Long time

[coppercone2]

Define 'use' ?

I mean, I could mix them with concrete and build a wall with the cast concrete bricks.

that would be a toxic building