UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum - View Single Post

woodchips · 8th May 2020, 9:40 am

Less criticism for my comments than expected, thanks.

Yes, this forum and similar for other hobbies works well. But that still raises the problem of packing and postage costs. I have packed and posted all sorts of stuff all around the world, it is not easy. Need a room full of cardboard boxes, double wall, and bubble wrap plus a large table to do the work on. Then there is the weight.

Never throw metal away, take it to the scrappy even if you get nothing for it. Cables with the connectors cut off is copper, £1 kg, clean aluminium is £450 tonne etc. Gold is now $1700 toz to AWA in Harlow.

But what to do with components? Toroidal transformers? ICs? Transistors? At least valves seem to have a current value, impressed with the wanted thread for a transmitting valve.

My criticism of museums is personal experience.

8th May 2020, 9:40 am	#36
woodchips Octode Join Date: May 2010 Location: Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK. Posts: 1,177	Re: What to do with my collection? Less criticism for my comments than expected, thanks. Yes, this forum and similar for other hobbies works well. But that still raises the problem of packing and postage costs. I have packed and posted all sorts of stuff all around the world, it is not easy. Need a room full of cardboard boxes, double wall, and bubble wrap plus a large table to do the work on. Then there is the weight. Never throw metal away, take it to the scrappy even if you get nothing for it. Cables with the connectors cut off is copper, £1 kg, clean aluminium is £450 tonne etc. Gold is now $1700 toz to AWA in Harlow. But what to do with components? Toroidal transformers? ICs? Transistors? At least valves seem to have a current value, impressed with the wanted thread for a transmitting valve. My criticism of museums is personal experience.