On Jan 31, 12:59 pm, "William Sommerwerck"
wrote:
What's wrong with recycling components? Why spend money for new ones when
you can pull good ones off old equipment?

exactly. I have boxes, mostly of of old tv chassis and monitor
chassis. when that gets into overspill, i usually remove:
-switches
-larger or odd value electrolytics
-polyester film and other types of small non electrolytic caps
-bridge rectifiers
-regulators
-some ICS
-some resistors. especially over 1/2watt.
-knobs and push switches
-LOPT /flyback transformers.

I don't usually bother with:
-caps with next to no 'legs' - if the leads are too short you can't
reuse them easily. same goes for resistors and diodes. they're common
anyway so i don't bother much.
-most caps that are in hot-running areas like power supplies and
deflection as they have usually had a hard life.
-common value caps rated less than 105º-especially if they're under
25v

on the whole, i have found motherboards to be the least satisfying for
recouping bits, everything is soldered hard up to the board.
old printer power supplies and monitors are usually good for bits.