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Vince:
COMPONENT SORTING


--- Quote from: Vince on June 27, 2022, 10:39:08 pm ---
Now found another drawer... a smaller one this time ! OK, I promise... I think... I am pretty suuuure... I really believe they aren't any more hiding anywhere now, this is the last drawer/box/bag of components that was left to process !  I guess only time will tell if that was a lie or not...

Lots of IC's again ! A whole plastic bag of brand new TO92 things as well.... guess it's all BJT...

A few cool IC's in metal cans with gold plated leads, just as I like them  :-+

A few EPROM, love these old ceramic EPROM, they look so cool, and I am always so curious to read their contents, it's like opening a mystery box !  >:D
... but that will have to wait for the lab to be computerized and equipped with a chip programmer of course... so not anytime soon. The longer the wait the bigger the excitement !  :-DD

But that will be for another day... 00H40 here and I am yawning badly.

Good night people....  :=\

 

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OK I am done sorting all the transistors in that drawer.

With so many small packages, not knowing if every one might a different type... I tried to speed up the triaging process and instead of putting them all in (temporarily) labeled drawers, which takes time to open and close them hundreds of times, and make the labels... I tried a faster approach. Simply put all the packages oto my A4 notepad, writing on paper directly the type of each transistor... this way takes no time to add a new type, it's compact, and you get a quick overview of what you have, see which ones are numerous and you might want to keep, which ones you have noly one or two or three of and you might want to sacrifice in the name of drawer real estate.

Had to download a few datasheet to learn about the specs of this or that, so I can make decisions on what to keep and what to scrap.
Ended up scrapping half of it. Other half, 50% were types I already had so cool, easy enough to add more to them. Remaining 50% were new types so had to "insert" them in the existing drawers, bit a shuffling around required and made two new drawers, but it was not as painful as I though. However it's most definitely much easier to insert them in the ... spreadsheet, just right click "insert line here" !  :-DD

They are all BJT, 2N and BC series.
Have a huge pile of BC639 ! They are interesting : small packages usually means small signal transistor, but here no, for a change it's a "beefy" transistor, so higher voltage and current handling capabilities, but much lower gain. 100V and 1A, and low double digit gain.

Also kept the BC307. Their spec is nothing I didn't have already, but there are a significant enough number of them, 10, and they have cool gold plated leads, it's what saved them, didn't have the heart to scrap such beauties...  :-//

And for dessert, I noted this one : 2N2369.  Somehow that part number sounded familiar, so I Google it and yes, it's the type Jim Williams used for is fast pulser, that every one builds around the world. I sure meant to make one too at some point, so more than cool to have those !  :D  Only 3 of them though, but better than none at all.  I am sure there are better transistors these days, but I like vintage stuff and walking in the legends foot steps is thrilling. Can't wait to build that pulser !  8)

OK so now I can move on to sorting all the ICs... stay tuned...

bd139:

--- Quote from: Vince on June 28, 2022, 09:14:56 pm ---800 tubes coming ?!  :scared:

Where do you even find lots like that ?!  :-//
Specialized websites clearing stuff out ?!
I wish I could find stuff like that !

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I wish it was that easy. This is a dying ex EE relative. The guy has lots of ancient stuff but it has been stored in a damp garage with damaged roof for the best part of 25 years so it's nearly all a write off and will be loaded into a skip. The tubes and some of the components were stored in the (heated) outbuilding fortunately because the garage was full. Going to be a shitty long weekend dealing with it so I'm not exactly thrilled at the idea.

I've been told I can do what I want with it so I'm going to lift the high value tubes and sell individually and the rest go in lots on ebay.

I'll enumerate and heater test (I'm not buying a tube tester) all of them so if anyone needs any for genuine purposes i.e. loading up test gear and not building guitar amps I'll distribute them for postage cost accordingly.

bd139:

--- Quote from: mnementh on June 28, 2022, 09:32:55 pm ---800 tubes of Redhead Repellent. Personally, I think he underbought...

mnem
"...anybody not wearing 2 million sunblock is going to have a very bad day...!" ~Sarah Connor

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A professional never repels. Just mix some nixie tubes in there and hook a steampunk redhead floozie.

tautech:

--- Quote from: bd139 on June 28, 2022, 09:37:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vince on June 28, 2022, 09:14:56 pm ---800 tubes coming ?!  :scared:

Where do you even find lots like that ?!  :-//
Specialized websites clearing stuff out ?!
I wish I could find stuff like that !

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I wish it was that easy. This is a dying ex EE relative. The guy has lots of ancient stuff but it has been stored in a damp garage with damaged roof for the best part of 25 years so it's nearly all a write off and will be loaded into a skip. The tubes and some of the components were stored in the (heated) outbuilding fortunately because the garage was full. Going to be a shitty long weekend dealing with it so I'm not exactly thrilled at the idea.

I've been told I can do what I want with it so I'm going to lift the high value tubes and sell individually and the rest go in lots on ebay.

I'll enumerate and heater test (I'm not buying a tube tester) all of them so if anyone needs any for genuine purposes i.e. loading up test gear and not building guitar amps I'll distribute them for postage cost accordingly.

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Fuck....no envy for you on this one only the sadness I know that will haunt you for every minute of it.  :(
Though he might turn in his grave at you parting out all the tubes he should also smile that you're gunna cash in on all the hollow glass worshippers.  >:D

mnementh:

--- Quote from: bd139 on June 28, 2022, 08:52:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vince on June 28, 2022, 08:50:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 28, 2022, 08:39:00 pm ---I wouldn't throw them out if I had them. The throwing out was accidental but refreshing. I had about 10,000 transistors at one point but sold most of them on ebay and turned them into curry and then into poop  :-DD

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10,000 ?!   :wtf:  :scared:

Oh I think if I had THAT many, even I, would definitely want to reduce the amount !  :-DD

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Yeah I bought some huge lots on ebay and some off gumtree and had a crate of shit I lifted from someone who died in the 90s.

I've got a huge ingress of tubes (at leas 800) coming soon which should be interesting  :scared:
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So... lemme get this right... you pass on a bench PSU you could use and one of the smallest, lightest MegaZoom scopes made (both of which would fit in one banker's box)... while screaming "No room! I'm Moving! The transportation monster is gonna jump up my arse and eat me from the inside out!!!"

But you say "Hells yeah!" on 800 doses of hollow state suppositories you know you're not going to be able to haul in less than 2 wheelbarrows?

Not that I'm judging... hell, no; this is TEAnonymous after all. :-DD

mnem
I just wanted to make sure I have the details straight for the screenplay...  >:D

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