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what if you had to use every part in your collection?
« on: June 07, 2020, 07:38:45 am »
What kind of crazy things would happen if you had to use every part in your collection boxes?

Can you even imagine it?
 

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Re: what if you had to use every part in your collection?
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2020, 11:55:03 am »
Define 'use' ?

I mean, I could mix them with concrete and build a wall with the cast concrete bricks.
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Re: what if you had to use every part in your collection?
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2020, 12:55:07 pm »
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?
 
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Re: what if you had to use every part in your collection?
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2020, 03:19:21 pm »
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  >:D
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Re: what if you had to use every part in your collection?
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2020, 06:05:44 pm »
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
 

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Re: what if you had to use every part in your collection?
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2020, 06:34:15 pm »
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
 


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