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buddy Tom was at the dump today......thank you Tom!!!
most I do not recognize, but a Sylvania 12ax7, Sylvania 7591a, Zenith el84,......too bad the Sylvania service box got busted up.
 

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I went to the dump the next day to see if there were more boxes, I didn't bring any garbage so they wouldn't let me in. hour and a half round trip. Tom said he kinda looked, so I can only hope nothing special hit the landfill that could have been prevented. I keep picturing a bulldozer pushing around a bunch of 300b's. Uugh.

I thought about selling them, for a minute or two, but they live with me now.
 
Or you move to Florida to get hitched and a family member with his friends, armed with BB guns use them for target practice.

Or you grow up in Florida and your younger brother uses your tubes for his BB gun practice......he could only hit the big ones like the 6L6GC's and 5U4's.

I can only hope nothing special hit the landfill that could have been prevented.

Ditto the hazardous waste / electronics recycling day at the local city hall. I had gathered up a bunch of CRT monitors, dead VCR's and other useless stuff and dutifully delivered it to the reclamation center only to see a Fender Bassman head in scrap. No matter what I said, they insisted that it must go to the crusher. At least one of the guys agreed that was like sending a 1965 Ford Mustang to the crusher, but policy dictated it's demise. Modern electronics was sent to a place where the PC boards were removed for reclamation, but the old stuff had no usable parts and must be scrapped.
 
How does one reclaim a PCB?
I'm sure it goes on in China, but metals reclamation is also big business here in the states as well. First the boards are ground up into little pieces. The waste products like plastic and such are burned off. Then the metal is melted down and chemically processed to seperate it out. It becomes profitable if you have thousands of pounds to to work with.
 
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