[volt-nuts] More Chinese Volt Nuts Stuff- LTZ1000
Alan Scrimgeour
scrimgap at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Mar 24 00:36:25 UTC 2010
It's hard to imagine that many LTZ1000 getting thrown away yet.
Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
To: "Discussion of precise voltage measurement" <volt-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: [volt-nuts] More Chinese Volt Nuts Stuff- LTZ1000
> In message <6C78C7F117B84B5C8C2226815C0AFBB4 at AlanPC>, "Alan Scrimgeour"
> writes:
>
>>There are two sellers of the LTZ1000 on eBay. Both are selling second
>>hand.
>>Both are in Hong Kong:
>
>>I can't imagine where they get them from.
>
> They get them from the very efficient electronics recycling industries
> in India, Pakistan and mainland China.
>
> All the eletronic crap that EU and USA "recycle" gets shipped to asia
> and gets dismantled and sorted through in some of the most hazardous
> landfills you could even imagine.
>
> Many of these components are unsoldered by warming the PCB over a
> bonfire and then shaking and scraping the components loose into old
> oil-bins or plastic buckets.
>
> The components gets sold by the pound, to "sorters" and from there
> they end up in electronics, toys, radios, tvs etc, and for specialty
> high-value components like the LTZ1000: on ebay.
>
> The LTZ1000's may just happen have been carefully selected by HP
> for a HP3458A-opt4, that was later dropped from an army-truck, but
> it was unsoldered by child labour over open fire and you probably
> get what you pay for...
>
> Poul-Henning
>
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