[SOC] I've resumed dumpster diving

[AL7JK John]

"These days there seems to be fewer and fewer components on circuit boards."
Soo true ! Recently completely by accident, I noticed pieces of
discarded Hewlett Packard test equipment, about 1970's vintage.
Icons from a by gone era. One of the items had been cannibalized
for parts, they left this beautiful multi-ganged capacitor, machined
reduction drive that turns soo smoothly. There's thick metal surrounding
these components. Craftsmanship.
 Someone, spent a lot of time engineering and constructing this
equipment. Such a shame to see it in the rubbish.
Big plans for these components, I'm dancing in the streets.

73 to the SOC

de AL7JK, John

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 3:12 PM, David Sadler-Lockwood <davidg4cli at gmail.com
> wrote:

> In the North of England, they're referred to as "Skip Divers"!
>
> Dave G4CLI
>
>
> On 24 May 2016 at 18:22, G4IPZ.COM <g4ipz at g4ipz.com> wrote:
>
> > To them that don't know (them in the USA that is) over here in the UK we
> > call dumpster divers "Skip Gypsies" - a skip being in the UK what a
> > dumpster is in the US.
> >
> > Well we call them that just as long as the politically correct brigade
> > don't get on their knickers in a twist about the term and start claiming
> > we're racially prejudiced for using the word 'gypsies'.
> >
> > Then again - with my family background - I don't give a damn.
> >
> > It helps to make me an ideal SOC member too :-)
> >
> > Slim G4IPZ
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