Unusual Scrapyard Finds! Repair-A-Thon!
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• Many More Scrapyard Fi...
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• Great Scrapyard Finds!...
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• Awesome Scrapyard Find...
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• Huge Scrapyard Finds! ...
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• Beautiful Scrapyard Fi...
Episode 13:
• New Amazing Scrapyard ...
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• Incredible Scrapyard F...
Episode 15:
• New Great Scrapyard-Fi...
Episode 16:
• More Amazing Scrapyard...
Episode 17:
• Scrapyard Finds Galore...
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• Scrapyard Finds to spa...
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• Rare Scrapyard Finds! ...
Episode 20:
• Fantastic Scrapyard Fi...
Episode 21:
• More Epic Scrapyard Fi...
Episode 22:
• Scrapyard Finds! Repai...
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• Exciting Scrapyard Fin...
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• Quality Scrapyard Find...
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• Surprising Scrapyard F...
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• Supreme Scrapyard Find...
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• Exotic Scrapyard Finds...
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• Precious Scrapyard Fin...
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• Valuable Scrapyard Fin...
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• Expensive Scrapyard Fi...
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Suggestion : At the end of the video put a ebay auction for a interesting item and some normal rescued items with pictures (at Scrapyard pic & after restored pic) and link. It can become and interesting way to raise money for videos.
Also please open a community website/chat online. So we can learn from each other and share our knowledge.
Keep it up, in times like this who knows for how long we will still have an internet connection. Russia against everyone, China against Taiwan, etc.
That amplifier is pretty awesome. I think I might have some 4 channel pots in storage. What value do you need?
Wait until the monster solar cme, it will wipe the electrical grid in seconds
@@Dirtyharry70585 unlikely event but if one does occure we wouldn't have to worry about our electronics because any clear with enough energy to do that would kill all life on the planet.
Honestly this is my favorite series on TH-cam and I never miss an episode for idk how many years now
Same here.
Always a good day when a new repairathon
Same, but I also follow another great restorations channel called "my mechanics", it's well worth a look if you like this kind of stuff.
Same
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"Planned obsolescence", it is when manufacturers make their product perform well for a known period of time, that's to keep us buying replacement products for the rest of our lives.
I have built countless dental offices in my career, those Siemens E1 dental chairs were some of my earliest that I worked upon at the beginning of my work life.
Hello! Is there any way I can ask for an advice? E-mail maybe?
@@mrtoby2804 What advice are you seeking?
I doubt this will be valuable information for my life in general but it assures me how precious it is to see that this series brings together people who can relate to the content one way or another. Thank you Frank
@@sonorex i agree. and 2nd that. its pretty great. thanks frank! have a good one sonorex!
You won't be too far away from Stamford, home of Colin Furze, when you're in England. That would be an awesome collaboration.
Oh yeah 🤘
22:43 Hats off to anyone who can decipher whatever the hell is going on in there. The last time I've learned about circuits was in physics class in 5th grade so the only thing I can confidently say is "It seems to be running on some sort of electricity".
You sure need some time to understand whats going on in these plans but if you got the basics, its doable. Especially if you got an old plan like this, where the function of each part of the circuit is named. Especially in radios and such you can do it by normally just by following the signal. But i guess it is easy for me to say that as I work in developing measuring equipment, even when its more in "testing and bug fixing" than designing the circuits.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 That's about the extent of my electronics knowledge as well.
To be fair that schematic is really dense. They must’ve had to squeeze it on one page
@@carstenk2552 i hear you there. love to find out which little bugger is causing the problem. but don't tell everyone we know the secerets... i need my job. =o) just tell them the magic smoke just came out of it. lol
Nice how you incorporated one of the most known items in a dental office into your own work space. The fact you gave the back story makes it even more beautiful.
You found a Luxman 309 integrated amplifier, 75 watt RMS per channel. What a great find. I wonder if the person who threw ii away knew its value.
In Australia those screw drivers are high end and locked in our hardware store. You have to ask for them 😂
I swooned over those beautiful Weras, they only have maybe 5% of that lot in my local Bunnings.
Considering Australia' ! Already has Nothing ! Then it would be High End there !
@@lawrencebillson6224 Don't shop there for hand tools. Buy from an electrical wholesaler... like an electrician.
@@davidwillard7334 We have more than you know... which is nothing.
Good chance fuel prices are lower if you are stuck in Europe.... or that Island theme park to the West of Europe.
If you replace the filter caps on a vintage amp that has a large grill on the top and you don't it looking empty, a trick is to empty out the original caps and hide the new ones inside. They often have tabs to remove the bottom. Bend em up and pull the bottom out along with the innards, then cut the connections between the windings and the terminals. Solder on leads from the terminals to those on your replacements, mount the new caps on the bottom piece, and put it back inside the old can.
Viola! Looks like a vintage amp again, complete with chunky filter caps!
8:49 i have a set of screwdrivers just for that. Made from the tips of a common Bosch set that i brazed to rods salvaged from defunct printers and toner ink cartridges. I have a metric ton of those rods, always good for project, quality steel.
Always love the scrapyard finds and fixes. Where possible, I use the older equipment, as it's so much better made and as you said less complicated, so less to go wrong.
@Repair Wins I've been doing the same for a while, it's great to see the happy faces of people when you repair something. I also get brought the more complicated things or stuff that needs welding etc to my home, as they know I'll give anything a go at repairing.
That dental chair is a Siemens Sirona M1. After my graduation as a DMD, I had a mandatory 6 month apprenticeship, which I finished at the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade. The dental clinic there had many of those M1s which were installed when the hospital opened in 1984. They still work today, and judging by the words of the repairmen, they are quite easy to maintain and repair, should they stop working. I remember them being quite comfortable too, much more so than modern Chinese dental chairs. Yugoslavian, and later Serbian factory of dental equipment "Jugodent" used to make those same lamps under the Siemens licence for their Elektra 2000 chairs.
Its really awesome that you are able to put that lamp to continued use.
When he whips out that surgical lamp you know shits about to go down. Its crazy to think how many teeth were fixed over all those years from the light that one lamp provided.
My recent scrap yard acquisitions include a conduit offset bender, some unused fasteners, and some welding materials. I also bought 3 small hydraulic cylinders and associated hydraulic lines for building a dedicated snow plowing machine. It looks like I'll be using a Honda GX390 engine on it. I'm using a John Deere mower frame and seat pan, and some Jacobson steering parts.
Reed Richards, The Leader and Dr. Doom ain't got nothing on you! You are the man.
I don't know how you find repair/replacement parts, but you got skills!
Keep doing what you are doing.
Please know that these videos being me great joy and satisfaction - the ethic and outlook you put towards the videos and the simple but engaging script is just great. Hope you are well and am excited for your next video!
Another great video. Thanks.
Nothing beats a knob deep cleaning 😂
Fader cleaner is what you want to clean pots. Normal Deoxit or contact cleaner may not work and can even make it worse. Worth a shot trying to restore the original pots.
Back in the early '90's at Technical collage I bought a long screwdriver for exactly the same purpose.....oh and they taught us how to fix electronics back then.
Good old days now we can’t even tell if we’re male or female, wtf has this world come to, sad really
I always love these scrapyard videos, but this one was particularly good. It was such a great variety of repairs.
Have a good time in the UK!
mr bikes give me money.
I liked the observation that more complicated products brings more points of failure
The front metal piece of the Luxman amp is a beauty. All sorts of switches designed to their job, everything in the right place, boldly engraved features, timeless font, not pretending anything.
1:00 I wish I had a scrapyard like that near me, I'd be down there every week looking for stuff. We do have scrapyards, but they take your stuff and give you money, but it all just gets melted down. No way to scavenge anything cool.
Same here but every Saturday they are open for looking around in the soon-to-be-shredded piles. That's where you'll find the magic, you should ask yours too.
Another thing the items on this channel were built for were to last a lifetime and built to be serviced/repaired! This I way I love old things like tools and equipment, modern things are just consumerist trash that break quickly and aren't meant to be repaired, just thrown away and repurchased.
Great video as always, thank you for uploading! 👍👍
That lamp has seen many a rotten tooth, and has burned itself into the memory of countless scared townsmen and townswomen 👀
Thanks for these repair tips, for more energy efficiency you can change the halogen lamp by a led with switching power supply.
not that easy because the reflector is a parabolic type that relys on the 360° beam pattern of a halogen filament in the focuspoint.
with led you cant have 360° beam in a small spot AND provide enogh cooling.
grrrrr i wish there were more scrapyards everywhere. I'd make my entire life a living off fixing/modfying/reselling scrap!! Aaaaa
It's wonderful to see old stereo equipment being saved from the trash. I think that was my favorite part of this video. Thanks for feeding my inner geek.
1:32 I would have taken those heat-exchangers!
I was hoping you would take that green toolbox in the beginning. I would love to find one of those!!
So was I! But Gerolf is probably very tired of looking at toolboxes after last year's effort to ship out so many for the holidays. 😆
I’m so glad you kept that lamp, it’s a beauty and has a fantastic story! I’m glad somebody cares so much for this historical tech. The fact that you repurpose these things to be useful in a different context is inspirational and entertaining 🙂
Loved the Luxman repair. Great amp. Perhaps an Alps BlueVelvet or similar vol pot.
"The more you overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain".
I love that old-style hi-fi construction. One of my buddies brought back a unit from overseas when he was in the military back in the 90s, and that thing was awesome! It was very heavy, and had incredible power.
Little tip when repairing speakers use a playing card or thin material as a spacer so that the voice coil is centred properly in the magnet. Great content, Posh work 👌
Luckily those cheap speakers have a huge gap.
@@ppdan A wide gap for low efficiency.
A wide gap to hold a lot of metal filings sucked in by the magnet that were not cleaned out.
A wide gap that might provide clearance for the bent up voice coil, BUT that wide gap between pole faces is still probably around 0.5 to 0.75 mm each side of the coil.
Yeah, cheap and junk.... better to just wire stereo inputs as mono, disconnect the wiring to voice coil on deadie and let it run as a passive radiator.
@@BTW... I am pretty sure it's more than 0.75mm between poles. It's probably 0.5mm between coil and poles which is huge.
Dentist light is the highlight. Well done. Just a reminder, it might be too bright for you to look at objects illuminated by it for too long.
The world needs more people like you. 👍👍👍
Worn or dirty contacts would have been my first suspicion on that old Fluke meter .
I have fixed a lot of remote controls and other equipment with similar controls , just by cleaning with IPA and a cotton swab .
I love that old lamp and how you repurposed it .
Scrapyards are always interesting , full of endless possibilities for anyone with some tools and imagination .
I repaired a digital products remote today using those same products. It had not worked for over a decade! (I tend to think a Q tip inside those buttons and a good scrubbing of the PCB with a #2 pencil's eraser would have made that Fluke work again w/o the new board purchase)
I repair a lot of playstation controllers and moře often than not, the carbon from the flexible board completely flakes off and the whole board has to be replaced.
@@adamchudomel6230 sometimes a graphite laqueer may help with a mask out of a piece of a plastic tape. I even saw one fixed (for some time) by a middle-schooler with pencil powder, IPA and rosin mixture to renew the joystick sensor. Necesity is a mother of ugly hacks :)
Loved to see that broken speaker sing back into life!
Frankly, I’m surprised that it worked. Back in the late ‘70s when I was managing a small speaker company, we assembled our own woofers and we had a special alignment tool to center the voice coil in the magnet/pole piece assembly. Any errors in concentricity would result in the voice coil rubbing and causing distortion. Back then we were using Peerless tweeters that had a faceplate with the dome and voice coil mounted. It was held on by four screws. I got really good at correcting the ones that were misaligned by playing a sine wave through them and listening for the absence of distortion as I moved the faceplate.
I never find cool stuff at my scrap yard. It’s all sent to e-waste. The search continues! It’s a great hobby tho. Thank you from Texas U.S.A.
I would've taken the old caps housings and 3d print reductions to reuse them and hide new caps inside. I know that you don't see them normally but... I've done in on some of my amplifiers and it just looks and feels better :>
That is a great idea!
I would have like to have seen you do something with whatever had those caterpillar tracks .
Don't know if you can get it locally in Germany, but there's a product called Deoxit that basically fixes 99% of dirty crackling potentiometers.. Just spray it in, work the potentiometer around a few times, spray again to flush, then let the part dry and in the vast majority of cases, the pot works fine again. The only thing it can't fix is where the carbon has literally been worn off.. The stuff is very economical to use and I've had the same can for over 10 years and it has fixed many slide switches and noisy potentiometers...
When you want to clean them I always use a shoe lace to easily spin them a few times.
Yes you can get it here in Germany. Music Store and Thomann (big online sellers of musical instruments and audio gear) got in in stock. Caig DeOxit D5 or maybe the Fader F5 might be even better for the job. 25€/can is very steep - but as you said - it's very economical in use!
Awesome fixes, I work for Siemens here in the US and I now notice Siemens does a lot of things.
Beautiful. A lot of complicated things works month and a lot of simple ones works years or decades.
Your opening comments about increasing complexity multiplying the points of failure strikes a chord. I’ve often thought there should be minimum design standards required of products but never been quite sure how to assess and introduce such, beyond increasing the buyers rights from 1year to, say 5years, as a blanket requirement. Travel safe and keep up the great work 😀👍
Amazing job. I love your videos. I love fixing things ( I was a heavy truck bus mechanic for 45+ years before retiring 1-1/2 years ago) but my electronic skills are nowhere near your level. I have that same Fluke multimeter/ oscilloscope that you repaired in the video, I bought it cheap at an auction a few years ago and use it occasionally. Cheers from the Minnesota in the USA.
Beautiful Luxman! I got a PD370 turntable with a vacuum pump that's supposed to help with warped disks by sucking them and making them flat against the platter.
I stare at that same lamp every time I get my teeth cleaned. The blueprint would be nice in a frame. Thanks for the video and Happy Weltschmertz!
I Bloody love this channel , the bit where you poke around the scrap yards always get me excited to see what crazy contraption your going to build. Always informative and insightful keep up the great work.
I had a bad pot on a 1980s Radio Shack scanner radio. I cleaned it over and over again. It was still failing. I finally opened it up and usually the wipers consist of 2 or 3 fingers touching the resistive trace. There was definitely a worn spot on the trace. It dawned on me to slightly bend the wipers over to a non worn part of the trace. It has worked fine now for a decade. That solved my problem. I love this series. I never miss it!!!!!
That Grundig may have been a great thing to fix
When you repair a speaker, either reconing or reattaching a magnet, you have to center the voice coil. Best way to do this is to remove the dust cap and putting some paper shims in place. If the coil is not properly centered it can self-destruct.
That hardware store looks awesome!
ywah, all the neat Wiha stuff!
Fine toolbox at 0.53. I have a dentist’s lamp in my workshop too!
I saw that toolbox as well!
So great to know there are still some smart people left in this world. Your skills will help rebuild the world WSHTF. Seriously your level of knowledge is very impressive. Thank you for sharing . Be safe on your trip.
Nice job saving the fluke
i mean you cant deny how much work has been done ever so intricate and well spoken his way of referencing or how he goes about explain things as what and how it is to makes it easy to understand,iv missed this channel my whole life,for a hobbyist it has been real hard to even begin with anything regarding electronics cos its a problem to find accurate solutions when your search words capabilities is limited...iv never been as excited at this point!! what a cool guy!!
That fluke meter must've been expensive when new! In '99 when I was in college, the fluke rep came by to show off the Fluke 98 multimeter. I couldn't afford one, but one or two other students fell into that trap!
I really like what you did with the dental lamp. Very unique and useful.
That lamp is amazing - wonderful that you brought it back to good use. Really like that blue tooth speaker - the lights are wild and the speaker drivers look pretty powerful. Really cool to see the restoration of the 1970's amp as well - very cool!
The new screw driver seems a bit wasteful because you still have a spare 13cm even when fully engaged with the screw.
Joking aside this is yet another fantastic video and after only 5 hours on youtube almost 20k views.
You made it man you have a BIG FANBASE and we love your stuff.
when in a pinch or strapped for cash, you can weld a cheap bit to the tip of a rod, nail or threaded rod to get a long screwdriver 😅
you can weld a bit to a all threaded long rod and weld a nut at the end,That way you get a long screwdriver for a penny .Works with all kinds of bits,
I would really appreciate and enjoy a video about connecting and operating an oscilloscope. I have a nice HP unit that works but was going to be discarded. I found a generic set of hook-ups for sale on Amazon and grabbed those. I know a very little bit about Oscilloscopes and really want to learn more about them. I am into Ham radio and the scopes are a great thing for testing and setting up radio equipment and components. I know there are videos out there but the TPAI films are very easy for me to follow and understand.
Nice work on saving the Lamp! I need to learn more about the 3D printing process as well but that's another road...
Take Care and have a great trip, John
I am reminded each time that I return to your channel, how unique and enjoyable your style and perspective are. Thank you.
I prefer older tools and basically anything made before 1990
That amplifier is a beauty after your magic!
Keeping our good old stuff is a good way to fight inflation.
Great Job on fixing the Ultrasonic Cleaner. I had a feeling it would have been the mosfets. I've replaced quite a few over the years, and more recently on some Milwaukee Tools I've been repairing on my channel. I had the same problem with needing a longer screwdriver (well torx) when recently repairing a milwaukee jobsite radio.
one among the best stuff on tube. nice to see that vintage beauty restored.
I had initially thought perhaps the Aldi BT boombox sounded unacceptably tinny (to me) but then when you used the proper audio amplifier I realized that this is an artifact of how the sound was recorded. Excellent job!
Great job with the fixes! My car's Sub woofer was the same story, large rockford fosgate and housing from the dump, I simply epoxied the magnet back together, my amp was also from the dump and only needed a couple new capacitors that I salvaged from another much older amp that had been smashed, My aftermarket speakers where from a wreck at the crusher and the only part I paid for apart from the Atoto double din stereo. I should record some of my find's and upload them!
You can get DeOxIt to clean them pots. You don't have to take them apart, just spray down the knob and it cleans them. It's made specifically for that.
Afaik, our scrapyards here in the Philippines are gleaned dry of repairable and salvagable materials. No metals as they are reused for something else. No repairable electronics as there's always a waiting repairman there who would take the components home to make it work to make them his own. Only there left are wood and plastics as they are difficult to reuse or recycle.
hi, usable scrap yard findings are the downside to developed and low income difference society. I have Ms.C in engineering and I make 32€/h minus 30% income tax. For repair guy I need to pay about 60-100€ per hour (car repair being at top end). I follow TPAI because it's fascinating and I learn to save money since practically it's impossible to find repair guy or it costs too much to make any economical sense.
So true. We bought an expensive and complicated coffee maker. It lasted 8 months. Now we use the old one, easy and it always works. I enjoy your videos very much.
These little projects are my favorite.
The Only series i look forward to nowadays is the Scrapyard Restorations & repairs series. The joy and pleasure i get as i watch those old gold stuff get a new life and continue to live on. Also I haven't seen any other youtuber doing this type of series, i checked but sadly no. Hope this type of series becomes a trend so I can watch others youtubers do similar things but the genuine quality won't be close to this one and I know that.
Suggestion : At the end of the video put a ebay auction for a interesting item and some normal rescued items with pictures (at Scrapyard pic & after restored pic) and link. It can become and interesting way to raise money for videos.
Also please open a community website/chat online. So we can learn from each other and share our knowledge.
Haha, "incredibly eighties and incredibly German". I had a good laugh.
The Metal Shreadder ! Would have done a Tremendous Job ! Here !
Top video again. 👏👏👍 Enjoy your trip to the UK. As a teacher of computer science of 11-18 year olds and someone who studied engineering and used to teach Design & Tech can't get enough of these videos. Always recommend these to students.
if that halogen bulb ever breaks there is probably led replacements,i swapped all the lights in a camper and brought down the consumption with 75watts
A halogen lamp will be kind of on the hot side to have too close to your head above you, and so changing it to an LED would be mandatory for me unless I want to sunburn my scalp or set my hair on fire!
Finding unusual stuff is what makes this exciting
That little Grundig Radio in the beginning was full of golden goodies. Sure, the case was beyond its function of looking good, but that case had a new job protecting all the goodies within which it had still done in the impossible and ultimately terminal confines of the scrap yard where its internal irreplaceable resources will be lost forever. I could not have past that one up.
making a note of the trick of using ordinary washing powder! That's not one I've come across although in hind-sight I should've thought of that. I use a mix of vinegar and liquid soap, and throw in a teaspoon or so of bicarbonate so the fizz lifts the dirt. Using washing powder, which is alkali, would improve that.
Your're not wrong with comments about complexity... to Quote Scotty from Star Trek: "the more they over-think the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain!"
You got lucky on being able to glue that magnet back on that speaker. I am sure it dropped straight down when the speakers were straight up. when the magnet comes off when at a 90 degree angle it almost always destroys the fragile voice coil. I enjoyed your video.
8:37 "The screwdriver is simply too short to the reach the screws." That's what she said! 🤣
23:33 "Take another look at our Knobs." oooer missus 🤣🤣
You might wanna try to get amplifier fixed with all it functionalities. Those vintage Luxman amps are worth a LOT depending on their condition.
Well, even broken you can still get good money for it.
I think, if the MOSFETs have failed before and the suspicion is overheating, I would go to a mica insulator with proper heatsink compound to allow for better thermal transfer.
Often the pot's can be cleaned with a contact cleaner that also has a lubricant in it. This can work quite successfully and is used by a lot of Tube/Valve radio restorers as often the pot's in them are hard to find replacements for also. In this situation, I do like your approach though as I don't think a Balance control is really needed either. If the channels are properly matched, the input should equal the output and there is no real reason for a balance control. It would be nice to have it original, but it is what it is.
Thanks for another great video. I always enjoy watching your repair-a-thon videos.
Have you considered opening up to TH-cam membership and having the Join and Thanks button on your videos?
Yes, for tough cases like this 4-pot contact cleaner might be worth trying - nothing to lose here. In HiFi and musical equipment everyone uses Caig DeOxit D5. It´s very expensive at 25€/can but lasts quite some time since you don´t need much. And you shouldn´t flood the pots anyway, just a dab is enough…
HOLY SHIT that wall of WERA made me feel things
Your intelligence deserves respect, and, so I pay it to you.
Very cool man. The part with your father n law really speaks to who you are. Bravo amigo.
Always a pleasure to watch you work.
Sometimes you can actually tear down the potentiometers and replace the worn out PCBs inside with another ones from an new pots. This might help when dealing with weird parts like that four stacked pots.
Honestly this is my favorite series on TH-cam
The Fluke meter is a great repair for sure 👍🏻
12:25 Love those Gen1 Scirocco’s!
Your Luxman repair brought me back to one I did a few years ago, a later model, possibly early 80's. I ended up replacing every single cap (about 30 or so) and 2 faulty power transistors. A really rewarding experience getting the thing going again for the customer.
I really dig the dentist lamp you have, would like to replicate that arm in my own workshop.
You could have sold the Grundig radio for parts. There were many things inside still useful for restorers and collectors.
Sometimes you have to pick a bit more carefully as you would end up taking everything. I tend to pick things I want myself or are pretty sure they are worth something.I have found that the things you think may be of value to others often aren't.