How To Salvage Components From Electronics – The Tutorial Guide. Salvaging Cheap Components

How to get useful cheap or free electronic components from old scrap devices. What to salvage, how to desolder through hole and SMD components. How to organise and store new and used components.
CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Intro
00:04:10 What to Salvage
00:08:25 Desoldering Through Hole Capacitors
00:13:45 Desoldering Through Hole Connectors
00:32:03 Desoldering BGA
00:36:25 Desoldering SMD MOSFETs
00:39:29 Desoldering Through Hole Inductors
00:42:10 Salvaging ATX Components
00:45:06 Desoldering Through Hole Electrolytics
00:47:28 Desoldering Through Hole Resistors
00:50:27 Desoldering Through Hole Power Semiconductors
00:55:51 Large Electrolytics & Power Resistors
00:57:57 Desoldering Through Hole Diodes
01:02:56 Desoldering Through Hole Transistors
01:07:40 Desoldering OptoIsolators
01:08:33 Desoldering Power Transistors on Heatsinks
01:13:27 Desoldering Through Hole ICs
01:16:27 High Voltage Capacitors
01:17:08 SMD PCB With Integrated Heatsink
01:22:43 SMPS PSU are Useful… Sometimes!
01:29:36 HDD Controllers
01:31:53 Salvaging SMD Electrolytics
01:37:05 Salvaging SMD Connectors
01:48:01 What’s In The Stash?
01:49:33 How To Organise & Store Components
02:00:45 Epilogue

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