From: mblack@pubnix.net   
      
   On Sun, 9 Dec 2018, John Doe wrote:   
      
   > What's the best inexpensive device at the local megastore to pull   
   > capacitors from? What inexpensive device has the most capacitors?   
   >   
   > If not the local megastore, then eBay or wherever.   
   >   
   > Looking for a (preferably new) cheap electronics device for the sole   
   > purpose of removing its capacitors.   
   >   
   > My interest is noise filtering, decoupling, bypass, that sort of thing.   
   >   
   > Thanks.   
   >   
   I think you're looking in the wrong place.  VCRs, cassette recorders, even   
   DVD players, old stereo systems, LCD tv sets and monitors, I suppose old   
   computers, cordless phones, there's lots of consumer electronics being   
   tossed out, and some of it offers up parts.  The more recent the less   
   likely since the parts will likely be surface mount, and there's not much   
   you can get out of a recent cellphone, specialized ICs and very large   
   scale, so relatively few parts, aside from them being surface mount.   
      
   All of this can still be found at garage sales, and rummage sales where   
   they exist (and take electronics).  I'm seeing less electronics being   
   tossed out, people sending their junk to "e-waste recycling" rather than   
   giving it a second life.  Some things will offer more parts than others,   
   and some things offer better parts for specific things than others.   
   There was a time about 1995 when I was getting early generation   
   cellphones, the big clunky kind, for a few dollars, and they had great   
   parts, full size and recognizable.  I think the wave of CRT tv sets and   
   monitors being discarded is mostly over, I'm not seeing much.  They would   
   have more parts than in LCD sets.  And when you find the junk, much of it   
   might also offer themselves as cases, maybe with a bit of panel to replace   
   the old.  Computer power supplies can be used as is, or teh parts removed   
   and the cases used for other projects.  Parts can be cheap, but hosuing   
   the projects has always been costly.   
      
   Of course, there are endless AC adapters being scrapped, simply because   
   the owner no longer needs them.  A massive source of switching supplies,   
   make up for the lack of actual transformers, little equipment uses thos   
   anymore.  One time I needed an adaptoer for a Pwerbook 1400, and I think   
   the second inkjet printer I opened up (those still seem common in the   
   garbage) provided the needed 24vdc supply, complete on it's own little   
   board.   
      
      Michael   
      
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