Comments on: The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronic Junk [TGIMBOEJ]

By: Texas Junk Yards

Texas Junk Yards — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:34:05 +0000

Wohoo! “The Hex Switch and 1/4 phono jack were from my 74 yr. old Electrical Engineering dad” this got me. My dad keeps everything.. uses around 1% of it but when he does , i sure makes him happy!

By: Sam Marquiss

Sam Marquiss — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:49:35 +0000

The Hex Switch and 1/4 phono jack were from my 74 yr. old Electrical Engineering dad who was cleaning out the garage of stuff which at the same time EMS was coming up with the box idea, and I gave them a few boxes to start off with. Thanks goodness it didn’t stay in my garage for the next quarter century. The phono jack was left over from a rock band amp he was helping me build in 74, and the hex switch left over from Radar tracking equipment he was working on to support the launches from Cape Canaveral in the 60s, 70s and 80s. It made him really happy when I told him that someone else besides him and me appreciated stuff too good to toss in the bin.

By: Mark Boszko

Mark Boszko — Sun, 25 May 2008 22:26:04 +0000

That normalled 1/4″ TS jack is gorgeous. Seems like the sort of thing you’d used to see inside audio patchbays. Just TS, though, so it’s an unbalanced mono signal, might have been from a telephone patchbay.

By: n[ate]vw

n[ate]vw — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:01:17 +0000

If I were a bit more ambitious and creative like this, I could have started the Migratory Trailer of Electronic Junk last week. Sorting through my dad’s shed was quite the experience — some devices probably deserved a better home than the salvage yard, other gadgets were already a home of their own to guests more organic.

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:07:10 +0000

I second that awesome, love these evil mad scientist guys!