Maybe e-recycling is frugal. Many consumer electronics fail when small (replaceable) components fail. That knowledge along with experience with electronics repair encourages me to double-take at widgets in the trash.
This morning I saw a 55" flatscreen in the local dumpster. A few years back I saved a friend's broken TV for them with a typical capacitor swap. A larger screen (than our 22") isn't in the budget this year, but a handful of caps and an hour of time sure could be. Looking at it in the dumpster I saw nothing obviously wrong with it but a morning's dewfall. So I heft it and begin to check, only to find...
It's a display model. The screen is opaque black. The holes for ports are there, but empty. Total salvage failure, but I had to laugh. How did it get there? Did someone local get scammed on Craigslist? Did it get stolen and discarded? I may never know. Thanks for reading.
April 21, 2018 at 01:28PM
