Re: The search for "old style" flybacks...

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: "Nick Andrews" <nicothefabulous-at-hotmail-dot-com> 

Here in Tampa, I bet I could bring a TV home almost every day.  They are 
sitting everywhere.  It seems that it's a favorite pastime here for people 
to open or smash the cabinet back and break the tube.  I have gotten the 
electronics from six or seven TVs in the last month or so, including from a 
nice rear-projection unit.  That one had 3 CRTs in it, 1 for each color.
Smashed, of course.  But the boards from these sets had a lot of nice power 
resistors and transistors and such.  Some nice heat sinks as well.  Several 
different flyback types, multipliers, etc.

I even scored a 1985 Amana Radarange, nice stainless interior, etc.  Need 
to plug it in and see if it works before I kill it!

I have used the board from a small monitor as a DC HV supply as-is, just 
disconnect the tube and trash it.  If anyone wants a newer-style flyback to 
play with, I am sure I can spare it.

Nick A


>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: The search for "old style" flybacks...
>Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:16:26 -0600
>
>Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
>
>Tesla list wrote:
> >
> > Original poster: Brett Miller <brmtesla2-at-yahoo-dot-com>
> >
> > People can argue about this until they are blue in
> > the face, but it doesn't matter.  Someone with good
> > scrounging ability can find anything they want, and in
> > any quantity they want.  I wonder how many on this
> > list have never been to a hamfest before?  At the
> > large ones you can find any electronic component
> > imaginable, and of any vintage...usually at decent
> > prices, lower than you can find on ebay, where a lot
> > of people are wanting to make a quick buck.  I drove
> > around the suburbs looking at trash piles for a couple
> > of hours in 2001 and found about 4 TV's and 3
> > microwaves.  I got voltage multipliers (Cockroft
> > Walton), nice flybacks, and a ton of MOT's.  All I had
> > to do was lift the old TV's into the back of the
> > truck.  There were even Black and White TV's.
>
>         Around this part of Southern California getting rid of the bones 
> after
>you've picked off the meat is much harder than scrounging the stuff in
>the first place.  All is considered "hazardous waste"  [eco-insanity but
>that's another matter] and you can't just throw it in the trash can!
>Easier to buy the parts from someone who has solved that problem, and
>probably just as cheap if you place any value on your time.
>
>         Of course, that way you lose the thrill of treasure hunting.  I 
> really
>like going through junk yards but have to resist the temptation to bring
>stuff home.
>
>Ed
>