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I can't be the only one with an aversion to tossing out cables and connectors that I probably will never in a million years use again?

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I’m a gold member of the obsolete cable club.
A few months ago I cleaned out my storage cabinet of electrical bits and parts and threw out all the parts “I might use”
 
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Funny, we are both thinking alike.
Right now it is 10:26am…. I am in South Africa currently
 
Go to bed!
 
Elliot - how's that radio communicator working for you?
 
NutmegCT said:
Elliot - how's that radio communicator working for you?
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Great. The bush is not as dense as the forest we are used to so the signal travels further.
 
Like the rest, I am guilty of the same things. However, I recently actually used something that I had been saving for years. I decided to build a new power controller for a large scale model train. It turns out that old laptop computer power supplies are the perfect power source. They produce clean power at 12 or 24 volts with decent amps. Now I am really screwed. Having found a use for something from the junk drawer, I may never throw anything away ever again.
 
I have a bunch of these kinds of things both at home and at work - previous supervisor always gave me grief about "hoarding old junk" until he needed some obscure hadn't-been-made-in-a-decade connector...I just opened a drawer and handed one to him silently. Never got grief after that. I still have a lot of older equipment and since you can't buy 90% of those cables any more it seems foolish to toss them when they have no actual cost associated with them.
 
I have 30 years of saved harnesses from obsolete scientific instruments.
Plus over 20 years of harnesses from Jaguars which I no longer own.
And that's not the half of it.
 
Steve - that reminds me of all the single engine a/c at small airports these days. They're sadly rotting away, fabric, wood, tires, interior, engine frozen. The owner knows that if the plane is sold, the owner will probably never fly again. So the owner keeps the plane, just in case ...

TM
 
NutmegCT said:
Steve - that reminds me of all the single engine a/c at small airports these days. They're sadly rotting away, fabric, wood, tires, interior, engine frozen. The owner knows that if the plane is sold, the owner will probably never fly again. So the owner keeps the plane, just in case ...

TM
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Couldn't they hop in a rental just to get the Jones satisfied?
I'm not a pilot but wish I was.
One of my friends was and rented all the time.
Never had the dough to buy and never will, but at least he has the ticket.
I got close to starting or thought I had the funds, but someone gave me more details that squashed that bug.
Wanted to be a pilot since I was just a teen, my nextdoor neighbor took me up a few times, once on a float plane.
He even drew me a cockpit with all the dials and controls for me to memorize.
I never actually did, but I bet I still have it somewhere.
Lost the bug when I was draft age, looked into Naval Aviation in the mid 1960s.
Found out the life span was stupid low back then.
More Migs than Phantoms I guess, so I cooled on the idea.
Turned down a commission to go to Annapolis, became draft bait.
 
NutmegCT said:
Annapolis!

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I know what it looks like, I was actually there when I was 6 YO.
Got to sit on a couple of torpedoes displayed on the grounds.
My dad was in a parade of some sort, last time I saw him in uniform.
Why do people always have to rub in my bad choices.
 
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