yea, the connectors generally turn to goo. I have a few bins of things I should still sort that were stripped that way. the hotplate and heatgun can actually do a really elegant, fragile, yet effective job of it! (I could use a bit more control)

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THAT stack isn't a lot, thats why I'm stripping it down, each of those boards probably has 10 or less surface mount parts I want. I need space!!!

oh no, wait till you see the pants....

its a good point, I have a lot of stock, but I see the value when I want to build something and can make it all from parts in stock.
I'm not sure on an actual %, but I can say its a hard number to pin, I have printed many kg of plastic and can only account for maybe 1kg of it. low waste too.

Still no dual ported ram... You can see some FIFO chips in here tho, maybe I should make an audio delay...

throw me some detail on your process, I kill lots of play pants.

I think *those* ribbon cables will delaminate and short-to-death long before they tear. I actually suspect you would have to pull like hell to get those laminated copper strips to give out. I have encountered a few.

ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/tut...

Comcast. Wow thats bad. Keep business small....

thing fills that need to perform that task that is horridly repetitious!

heh, I bet fixing that one will save you from a world of grief with a new one on things you cant imagine.