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Scrapping out an Avantron System Analyzer

wannabescrapperPosted for Everyone to comment on, 2 years ago2 min read

Join me as I scrap a very expensive piece of obsolete equipment and really screw up by thinking (and saying) that ceramic capacitors were tantalum capacitors. Good times, y'all. Nothing like spouting off about things I know nothing about.

I have since found out that there was some valuable stuff in there and found a few components that are worth $250 to buy new so I am sending them to a guy in Australia who uses them. As much as I love scrapping, it is worth more to me for someone to be able to use things than to make a few dollars (probably pennies) and have it ground up. If any of you see something you want, let me know and you can have it for the cost of postage.

I really hope that watching these videos will get you watching around your own neighbourhood for people throwing things away that still have a lot of value. if you have a little bit of space, you can store things up until the prices are better or you need a bit of cash. If you don't have space, you can often just sell what you find right away. Especially with clean metals like copper, brass or aluminum. Clean copper is around $4.50 per pound right now so say you are walking by someone's house and you see they have thrown out a bunch of piping from a renovation, you could just pick it up and go sell it at a scrapyard for some free money. Then you could spend that money on WLS. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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