TGIMBOEJ

The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronics Junk or TGIMBOEJ for short is the reson I have started this blog. It is basically a box (now many boxes) full of eletronic treasures from other people’s junk boxes. When you recieve it in the post you take out anything you think you could use and replace with items from your own junk box that someone else might have a use for. Then you send the box to one of the other people on the recipient list and on and on it goes. Well that’s how it is supposed to work.  The TGIMBOEJ was started by evilmadscientist and you can add your name to the recipient list or start a box by going here.

I only read about this on evilmadscientist recently and thought I should start a box of my own. There are not many people in Australia on the list, but I always have too much treasure lying around the place. I threw together a shoebox full of stuff that could be usefull to the electronics hobbyist, took some pics to document it, and started this blog. Now I am starting to wonder if it is worth going to the trouble, I have been reading some of the other blogs and it seems a lot of the boxes that get sent out don’t get passed on and just dissapear.  I might as well try and finish what I started though, and hope this box at least makes it past the first recipient. I have messaged Matt on the recipient list in Australia and he has emailed me, so the box is going to him first.

So what’s in this box I keep going on about? Well theres some old school valve gear in there, this is an area of electronics that I am into so I hope someone else will find that stuff useful.  Then there is the usual assortment of bits and pieces, some new components, some puled from other items and projects, and a few broken consumer items. Have a look at the pics to get an idea, it would be great to see some of this gear used in a project.

An old meter and some largish capacitors, the blue mallory cap is 80,000uF.  The  meter works fine but will need 2×9 volt batteries.

 

 

 

 

 
 
floppy drive from apple laptop, old nokia not sure whats wrong with it, the dopod PDA type phone was working fine until the screen was broken. I think the LCD is from a sony digital camera.

 

 

 

 

PS2 remote and psone reciver module, they work together on a psone. Conroller, 9v plugpack, mechanical counter from an old reel to reel? other stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Small perfboard and a piece of single sided copper clad board. I have put in about a half sheet of press’n'peel in case someone has been wanting to try this stuff out.

 

 

 

Decatron tubes, two different types ( 2 of each) and the sockets for them. These haven’t been tested but they look OK.

Tubes, 12AT7, GSN7, EF95, EC8F80, EZ80. None tested (I don’t have a tester)

 

 

 

 

 

An assortment of stuff here, ICs, chip amp, sockets, switches, photo interupters, some new some old, a lucky dip of components.

 

Pots and more pots.  A couple of vintge switched pots,  A photo flash unit. I am having trouble getting those 2 radio tubes into the box safely, it’s getting full, they might end up going into a future box.

 

 

 

A couple of guitar effects built on veroboard. The small one is a fuzzface and the other is the ampeg scrambler. Click those links for the circuit details.

 

 

 

 

Well that’s about it, if you think something in this box or one of the other boxes would inerest you, get your name on the list. I might make another box up later on, I am in the process of building a new shed/workshop, and I’m sure there will be of stuff uncovered in the move. If you do use something from this box in a project, please put some pics up and let me know about it.

 

I forgot to add this earlier, but I have posted the box to Matt, who is on the recipient list.

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~ by 440hertz on August 31, 2009.