 Editor in Chief Bill   | 02 Feb 2016 12:00 p.m. PST |
Do you disassemble discarded electronics, hoping to find cool bits to use for sci-fi vehicles, buildings, or other hobby purposes? |
| MajorB | 02 Feb 2016 12:02 p.m. PST |
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| shaun from s and s models | 02 Feb 2016 12:09 p.m. PST |
yes I have often taken bits home when I was an electrical engineer, lots of useful pieces in them. |
| ArmymenRGreat | 02 Feb 2016 12:32 p.m. PST |
Yes. Printers are great for parts. |
| avidgamer | 02 Feb 2016 12:38 p.m. PST |
Yup. I love the fans in PC's. |
| 53Punisher | 02 Feb 2016 12:39 p.m. PST |
Yep, have done it for years. |
 etotheipi  | 02 Feb 2016 1:04 p.m. PST |
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| PJ ONeill | 02 Feb 2016 1:20 p.m. PST |
I collected a large number of gears and small computer ports over my years as a tech, in hopes of using them, maybe for VSF. Then again, I do mostly historicals and would have a tough time explaining them on an 1863 battlefield. :-) |
| skippy0001 | 02 Feb 2016 2:26 p.m. PST |
Laser triggers from 40 megaton warheads make great line of site tools. |
| Cardinal Ximenez | 02 Feb 2016 3:12 p.m. PST |
Capacitors make nice small scale storage tanks. |
| alan L | 02 Feb 2016 3:18 p.m. PST |
Yep, fans from PCs make great air-conditioning units. |
LaserGrenadier  | 02 Feb 2016 3:21 p.m. PST |
Absolutely. Before the recent flood of companies producing sci-fi buildings, a modeler had to find things wherever he could. Printer cartridges from all makes, the correction ribbon spools from typewriters, plastic boxes and cylinders, washing machine and radio knobs, as well as plastic pen parts were all pressed into service. "Transistors" (or whatever they are called now) often make interesting barrels or other scenery. My wife would not throw anything plastic away until I checked it out. For buildings I only kept stuff that regular plastic cement would work on. Later I expanded my range to include super glue. |
| Kropotkin303 | 02 Feb 2016 3:33 p.m. PST |
There was a guy known a Froggy The Great who made a lot of cool stuff that he posted on Terragenesis a few years ago. Forever dismantling stuff like old VCRs and making cool sci-fi stuff.Here's a link to the old Terragenesis site. link |
| mckrok | 02 Feb 2016 5:55 p.m. PST |
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| Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 02 Feb 2016 6:08 p.m. PST |
I used to buy discounted electronics for this expressed purpose. Thrift stores are great for this sort of thing. Especially hiding speaker magnets in the terrain when you are a plastic soldier guy and your opponent welds his own iron bases… |
| Grimmnar | 02 Feb 2016 9:28 p.m. PST |
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 Doctor X | 02 Feb 2016 9:42 p.m. PST |
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| evilgong | 03 Feb 2016 3:17 a.m. PST |
Love it. I have a few boxes of such detritus. David F Brown |
| capncarp | 03 Feb 2016 9:00 a.m. PST |
But, of course!
You mean some poor soul hasn't been enlightened yet?
BTW, if you haven't figured out how to get those fershlugginer triangle slotted screws out, get a set of cheap mini-screwdrivers, find thr flatheaded one that just fits, and, turning the driver with a pair of pliers or grips, you can lever the screw into, well, unscrewing. |
| uglyfatbloke | 07 Feb 2016 3:20 p.m. PST |
Fershlugginer? (Or furshlugginer) .
A word not seen for many years…I bet you have access to genuine veeblefetzers too. I'm so jealous. |
| uglyfatbloke | 07 Feb 2016 3:30 p.m. PST |
Duh..as any purist knows, that should have been 'a veeblefetzer repair man'…apologies all round. |
| capncarp | 07 Feb 2016 8:29 p.m. PST |
What, me worry?
It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide. |
| uglyfatbloke | 08 Feb 2016 6:13 a.m. PST |
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| Weasel | 08 Feb 2016 11:03 p.m. PST |
We have in the past but I haven't done it in forever. |
| Aleator | 09 Feb 2016 3:14 a.m. PST |
214. Private Skippy is no longer allowed to guard the Nuclear Warhead Storage Depot. ;) |
