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Date:	Fri, 3 Dec 2004 10:55:45 PST8
From:	"George M. Boyd" <bb385@lafn.org >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Place to check for cheap parts

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Ray Davison wrote:

>
>
> About a year or so ago I noticed one vendor selling used monitors at
> Pomona. I bought a 19 inch View Sonic Optiquest Q95 for $100. Works
> OK. There are now many such vendors there.
>
> I recently picked up two monitors from The Salvation Army Thrift
> store. The first was a 17 inch HP. I caught it on half price day for
> $15. Last week I got a 19 inch View Sonic A90 for $40. It is old
> enough that the screen is not quite flat but the image is great.
>
> Ray
>
Ray:

Used monitors are now a drug on the market. I got my 19 IBM from a
friend who works at ___. They threw all of the CRT monitors out and
didn't even attempt to sell them. The employees can have them, if they
want them.
My son found four 19 inch monitors at the gate of the Simi Valley dump,
left there when the dump was closed.
The companies have to pay to get rid of them; guess this company just
took the inexpensive way of getting rid of them.
My son managed to get two into his truck before someone yelled at him,
"Those are my monitors." The worker just thought he could get some
money for them.

As an aside, my friend reports that many of the monitors being trashed
are now blowing capacitors. You may have heard of the rash of capacitor
failures in motherboards caused by the use of a stolen formula for
capacitor manufacture. Those caps are also used by far east monitor
manufacturers. The problem has been solved, but the monitors and
motherboards that used the defective caps are still blowing up. My son
has had two mobos blow and we suspect the caps on them.

George

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