EEVblog #1134 - Dumpster Diving Teardown Tuesday

Dave got a tip-off on a dumpster full of instruments, so raced off to check it out, what will he find?

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[CdH]

All my dumpsters are full of month old McDonald's and Hobos. Your dumpsters are full of salvagable equipment that I can't even afford in the condition it's in.
Fly to me to your dumpster, oh trash lord.

[jfanreva]

When I was a kid, I would literally dream about stuff like this.

[TheDefpom]

Wow, so much gear that could be rescued! And here I am struggling to find suitable items to BUY to make repair videos on!

[freeman]

Dave, you are driving on the wrong side of the road!

[krattah]

Mixed dumpsters with electronics in them? In 2018? What's stopping people from recycling?

[theawfulmrbird]

Like a candy store for adults... I like it!

[AlanJenney]

Ah, the Tektronics 475. That's the scope I learned electronics with. Heart-achingly familiar after all these years.

[ObsoleteAcey]

Brilliant! A Switchtec rectifier! I worked on those rectifiers in the late 90s. They are pretty solid from memory.

[IDoNotLikeHandlesOnYT]

I'm catching up on your videos after not watching much on YouTube for a year or so, and this is the most exciting one for me so far! Dumpster diving is probably my favorite thing to do involving electronics, and electronic stuff is my favorite stuff to dumpster dive for.

[czarodzi]

Nice! Haven't seen a real time dumpster five in a while. Can't wait to see what works and what needs fixing.

[leonkernan]

Just look at the fonts, layout and colours.
Some of the old gear had a lot of thought put into design and style that you don't see today.

[mrlithium]

Whoa i woulda grabbed those toroidals for sure! Awesome pile of crap !! I used to love dumpster diving back in the day

[SidneyCritic]

Did anybody feel disappointed Dave didn't plug it in.

[darthrevan]

If I ever found or was told about something like this I would need either a massive uhall or a dump truck sixzed truck to talk it all home. I love messing around with old school equipment

[davidxcrisp]

With all this equipment you are picking up there is going to need to be a Throwaway Thursday next to clear space for the next dumpster load.

[PyroRob]

Some nice looking meters for the used parts shelf

[jayeahsem]

I *LOVE* Dave's teardown videos. Always brings a 'tear' to my eye. *sniff*

[CJTX]

Lol... the HP unit with both "calibration not required" and "do not use until calibrated" stickers.

[lp]

Hint: Maybe the plate with the two coils was the top plate and the cut wires in the 500v PSU were going to the top plate.

[peterhaan]

Who ever put the equipment into the dumpster first deserves a huge "atta boy" as well as the earlier dumpster divers for not destroying what they left behind. There was obvious some love and respect for this old equipment!