Airehead Posted February 19, 2020 Share #1 Posted February 19, 2020 Long story but Paulie spilled a vase of flowers. Water dropped into the cabinet beside the fireplace. I had to take everything out to dry it. Makes me wonder- Do you have a box of random computer, stereo and other cables? If so, how large a collection? What is the oldest thing in the box? Here is a cute picture of Paulie smelling the flowers a couple days before he decide he should eat them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted February 19, 2020 Share #2 Posted February 19, 2020 I've got three boxes of electronic stuff and cables. The boxes are those that you would use to archive documents in the office. There's a lot of cables in there. "The oldest thing"? I don't know. Some of that CATV stuff, some power converters for the automobile. If I need something, I look in the box first. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx Posted February 19, 2020 Share #3 Posted February 19, 2020 No matter how many I have I can never find the obscure one I need right now. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL Posted February 19, 2020 Share #4 Posted February 19, 2020 Lots. Oldest may be a couple of parallel printer cables. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge Posted February 19, 2020 Share #5 Posted February 19, 2020 12 minutes ago, Airehead said: Do you have a box of random computer, stereo and other cables? If so, how large a collection? What is the oldest thing in the box? In the garage is a large tub of that stuff. I periodically purge it, but it still stays the same size as newer obsolete cables replace the older obsolete cables. I am now at least just tossing the older tech - like a 3 megapixel Sony camera that was AWESOME until it wasn't rendered nearly useless. Too bad these things don't burn well, or I could add it to my burn pile. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted February 19, 2020 Share #6 Posted February 19, 2020 22 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: Too bad these things don't burn well, or I could add it to my burn pile. The local recycling companies refuse to buy copper wire that has had the insulation stripped by heat. In the old days, scrappers would collect and save their wire then burn off the insulation in a 55 gallon drum. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far Posted February 19, 2020 Share #7 Posted February 19, 2020 Oh, yeah. But, I went thru it a year or so ago & got rid of the parallel cables, most of the VGA cables, red/white/yellow audio/video cables, & anything else that wasn't digital or USB. Still have a copier paper box of stuff (includes power strips). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge Posted February 19, 2020 Share #8 Posted February 19, 2020 1 hour ago, donkpow said: The local recycling companies refuse to buy copper wire that has had the insulation stripped by heat. In the old days, scrappers would collect and save their wire then burn off the insulation in a 55 gallon drum. Why won't they accept it? Is the copper somehow ruined? Seems like it would be fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12string Posted February 19, 2020 Share #9 Posted February 19, 2020 yeah, I need to clean out that box. I think some of my computer cables in there are made from papyrus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12string Posted February 19, 2020 Share #10 Posted February 19, 2020 Just now, Razors Edge said: Why won't they accept it? Is the copper somehow ruined? Seems like it would be fine It's to encourage you to strip them with toxic chemicals instead 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge Posted February 19, 2020 Share #11 Posted February 19, 2020 Just now, 12string said: It's to encourage you to strip them with toxic chemicals instead As long as you dispose of the waste into a storm sewer, you'll be fine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petitepedal Posted February 19, 2020 Share #12 Posted February 19, 2020 Why? Do you need some? I have a box at home and at work..just ask..I can send you some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted February 19, 2020 Share #13 Posted February 19, 2020 As an IT company, we have boxes that contain boxes and other boxes that hold up stacks of boxes of cables. VGA - Coax - twinax - power - Cat 5 - more Cat 5........... They sit next to the boxes of boxes of tape cartridges.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team scooter Posted February 19, 2020 Share #14 Posted February 19, 2020 Mrs has old cables, phone plugs, etc stashed all though the house in various drawers, boxes and closets. But I don't think she has ever found a plug in her stashes that she can use, ever. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Posted February 19, 2020 Share #15 Posted February 19, 2020 Just one? Oldest stuff would include some of these I'm an electrical engineer who used to be into old computers and video games, though collection got pretty well cleared out when I moved two years ago. So yeah, I got cables and more cables. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted February 19, 2020 Share #16 Posted February 19, 2020 1 minute ago, Indy said: Just one? Oldest stuff would include some of these I'm an electrical engineer who used to be into old computers and video games, though collection got pretty well cleared out when I moved two years ago. So yeah, I got cables and more cables. I still have that somewhere. Probably in the box w/ my Atari 2600...yeah I still have it. @Airehead I have a of cables & such. Mostly a mix of audio cables. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted February 19, 2020 Share #17 Posted February 19, 2020 36 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: Why won't they accept it? Is the copper somehow ruined? Seems like it would be fine I believe they do it to reduce theft of cables. I'm not really sure. When you remove the insulation from electrical cables, one is indistinguishable from another. The source of the cable could not be questioned if the insulation is removed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Posted February 19, 2020 Share #18 Posted February 19, 2020 2 minutes ago, donkpow said: I believe they do it to reduce theft of cables. I'm not really sure. When you remove the insulation from electrical cables, one is indistinguishable from another. The source of the cable could not be questioned if the insulation is removed. That's exactly what it is. I've seen houses under construction completely stripped of wire and copper pipe overnight. Strip off the insulation and it's harder to tell it was brand new wiring, left on it becomes pretty obvious that it was brand new wiring. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted February 19, 2020 Share #19 Posted February 19, 2020 From a scrapper's point of view, removing insulation resulted in higher return. Since the end user did not have to deal with the insulation in preparing the copper for use, they paid higher prices for it. Otherwise, they had to go to the expense of removing and disposing of the insulation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Silly Posted February 19, 2020 Share #20 Posted February 19, 2020 I've got a box somewhere. I worked as a field service for computers for a while. You never threw any cables away because you never knew when you'd need one. The oldest was probably for an IDE drive. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead Posted February 19, 2020 Share #21 Posted February 19, 2020 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn Posted February 19, 2020 Share #22 Posted February 19, 2020 I recently purged a crafting of cables and electronic stuffs still have one box of cables and power supplies. I didn’t dig down through the box. Probably still has a power supply for a Coleco game or Atari 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikeguy Posted February 19, 2020 Share #23 Posted February 19, 2020 2 hours ago, bikeman564™ said: I still have that somewhere. Probably in the box w/ my Atari 2600...yeah I still have it. I saved my Atari 2600 and LOTS of games too. I saved my old Apple 2e computer, monitor, disk drives (remember those), dot matrix printer, sofware. etc... Oldest cable, probably the extra RS232 cables. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted February 19, 2020 Share #24 Posted February 19, 2020 4 minutes ago, Bikeguy said: Apple 2e computer, monitor, disk drives (remember those), yes I do 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rattlecan Posted February 20, 2020 Share #25 Posted February 20, 2020 6 hours ago, Kzoo said: As an IT company, we have boxes that contain boxes and other boxes that hold up stacks of boxes of cables. VGA - Coax - twinax - power - Cat 5 - more Cat 5........... They sit next to the boxes of boxes of tape cartridges.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted February 20, 2020 Author Share #26 Posted February 20, 2020 Wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted February 20, 2020 Share #27 Posted February 20, 2020 2 hours ago, Rattlecan said: You’ve seen our storage room? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD Posted February 20, 2020 Share #28 Posted February 20, 2020 I have a box that has stuff like a parallel printer cable in it. It also has the old-style three-cable video, L- and R- speaker leads with mini-plug ends to run computer video on TV, before HDMI made them obsolete. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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