Interested in some donations?

#1

Hi, I visited your Makerspace early on the December 2016 open day for a look round and had a chat with a chap making an Arduino-played guitar.

I’ve emailed the directors with this message a week ago and had no response so far so thought I’d try here.

I’m in the lucky position of retiring soon. Nothing special there, except I’m a teacher of Design Technology & Electronics A level and the school where I work is dropping Electronics A level as a subject. Although most of the lab stuff is being absorbed by the Physics department, there remains the following which I have permission to offer to worthy organisations.
A large number of prototype breadboards, some small A5-ish size, others A3 (made up of 2 side by side) sized.
15-0-15 100mA split rail power supplies.
Plastic drawers well stocked with the TTL family of logic chips and various components.
5 volt 1 amp ‘phone charger’ power supplies.
Plastic compartmented storage boxes with hinged lids.
Nearly A3 sized UV exposure box.
Possibility of a 2 tank PCB etch tank with clear etchant and developer chemicals.
And other stuff yet to be unearthed…

Would any/all of this be of interest to the group?

It’s all FREE, delivered at a time to suit you in the next month or so?

Just let me know and I’ll start creating a ‘pile’.

I’ll also be joining the Makerspace in the near future as I’ll lose access to the workshops and laser cutter/3-D printer at the end of August this year.

Kind regards

Gareth

#2

Hello Gareth!

I’m sorry to ear that, the @directors contacted us about your offer but sadly sometime mixing life and an huge , dynamic and time consuming association like the SLMS is not an easy task, thank you to come back to us :slight_smile:

Sad to hear that!

We got some but if this are a good quality ones , we will be happy to get them , ideally we can re-distribute them between the various association we know (Rasperry PI Jam, London Hack Space)

I’m honestly trying to figure out what kind of power supply we are talking about , I guess are for the breadboards?

if they are labelled and organised we would love them! :smiley:

Happy to take these as well :slight_smile:

I don’t remember if we have one of this, @electrotechs ? @joeatkin2?

I don’t think we can keep this kind of chemicals in the space safetly at the moment :confused:

I hope you would like to join the electronics night every thursday as well ! :slight_smile:

#3

Not neccesarily. What are the hazards? We have a COSHH cabinet in the snug.

#4

Well, can melt copper…I guess skin and squishy human parts are not ok with that…

Depends of the composition, from irritant to corrosive , possibly fire hazard .

#5

If it’s used in schools we can probably cope.

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#6

Appreciate that its all volunteers, I’ve been hellishly busy all my life so no problem, I just need to get things moving :wink:

The etchant is sodium persulphate, so much nicer than ferric chloride. We use (well, used it) in school without issues, unless the H&S police haven’t noticed it. In 7 x 1Kg sealed plastic containers. That’s enough for a lot of etching. I have some board and film too, plus a great collection of PCBs that will never get used here :frowning: that I designed for Picaxe control purposes). I’m sure they would find good homes.

Yes, I’ll be happy to pop along on Thursday evening(s) (I have 40+ years of electronics and radio behind me), I can bring a sample breadboard. The split rail PSU supplies +15, 0 (ground) and -15. Used for op-amps usually.

Gareth

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#7

If it’s decided that the makerspace doesn’t want the uv box - I think London hackspace would love it - we have a large bubble etch station but our current uv box is small and thus really limits the size of boards we can make.

Cheers
Calum

#8

Well, I’m sure if is safe for kids should be ok for us then :smile:

#9

surely we need these chemicals anyway to make pcb’s

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#10

I’d exercise some degree of caution about bringing more chemicals into the space. We have a COSHH cupboard full of developer and ferric chloride that I understand no-one has used. It also doesn’t smell great in there either, which leads me to worry it isn’t exactly the safest place in the world for more stuff…

#11

Also the point of a COSHH Cupboard is to store chemicals we have COSHH RAs for I’ve never seen any mention of doing COSHH RA.

#12

Yes. As has been discussed before, a system for managing and maintaining said RAs probably needs to be produced.

#13

I’ve asked Sevron for pricing.

#14

@radiogareth , I was wondering if you were still waiting for us for any confirmation…

#15

No, not required thanks. I’m still seeking out ‘best fit’ options at the moment, plus loaded up with decorating tasks that always take longer than planned…

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