Unexpected Christmas present

[EdJ]

While bringing a non functioning printer to the local dumpster i noticed a cardboard box with an empy Philips tube box on top of a lot of junk.Looking closer i saw a bunch of resistors.This can`t be true i thought and asked the guy at the counter if i could take the box with me.No,he said,but i won`t look if you do.So i did.At home it appeared to be the leftovers from a local repair shop.1 Siemens EL34 turned up,then 2 Philips/Mullard EL34`s and a few more tubes i do not know,yet.
I ended up spending the rest of the afternoon unwrapping a huge amount of transistors,caps and resistors of all values and types.
A few days ago i thought this hobby was maybe a bit too expensive,maybe he was listening :wink:
Merry Christmas!
Ed

[guitarhacknoise]

:shock:  you lucky little bastard!
   someone likes you.
-matthias

[KMS]

Were did you say that dumpster was?

Merry Christmas :lol:
KMS

[aron]

YEAH!!!!!!! Merry Christmas!!!!

[Jason Stout]

Cool! One man's trash is another man's treasure!!!

[NaBo]

some people have all the luck  :cry:

ah well... my parents decided to pay for my order of 20 switches from Aron as my present... not exactly a freebie, but not too bad at all  

[birt]

:shock:

waarom gebeurt dat nooitbij mij hier in Belgie???

(why doesn't that happen here in belgium??? the dutch have all the luck)
:lol:

[jmusser]

I got lucky that way about a month ago. I got to go into our ITs "obsolete" stock. Anymore, they rarely repair a board with discretes, so they had drawers full of stuff that they hadn't used for years. I had prepared by cross referencing a bunch of NTE/CGE part numbers to common stuff that we used. It was like going to WalMart. Great find!

[Peter Snowberg]

Congratulations!!!!  :shock:  :shock:  :shock: