18 Jan
2004
18 Jan
'04
6:59 p.m.
On Sunday, January 18, 2004, at 07:58 PM, R. D. Davis wrote:
Quothe Jay West, from writings of Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at
05:25:23PM
-0600:
Definitely. I've scavenged lots of good parts from broken PC monitors
and stuff. The average old VGA monitor has a bunch of very usable parts
in it, and most of the failures seem to be connection or flyback
related, and almost all of the parts I've salvaged (capacitors,
resistors, fuses, etc.) have been good.
BTW - if you find any monochrome/CGA/EGA PC monitors, don't toss them,
people like me are looking for them!
Ian Primus
ian_primus(a)yahoo.com
etc. Also have a bunch of old pc monitors that
will be hitting the
trash,
not gonna post those!
As to old PC monitors, don't forget: there are lots of useful parts
inside, from inductors to fuses, wire-wound resistors, wires, heat
sinks, connectors, HV capacitors, etc. The same goes for PC power
supplies. Worth the few minutes or so it takes to scavenge parts from
them.