Hi Welcome to another video on the David Sparks collection. click here or down below. or click around here somewhere. If you haven't seen a previous video I've done on an amazing component collection from a guy named David Sparks Now, I managed to score some of his, um, stuff here not electronics components, but miscellaneous hardware stuff.

and I thought I'd do a video just taking a look through some of it because it can't be all of it. Trust me, we'll just look through some of these tins and see what he's got here. Oh what I now got for a whopping 30 bucks on ebay? Unbelievable. Uh, apologies up front for any video or audio quality.

I'm shooting this down here in the Eev blog bunker where I've got all this stuff stored so it's very echoey. The light here is very minimal, so bear with me please. But I count 332 coffee tins. These are Jarrah coffee tins.

uh, coffee. And I don't know if he actually drank all the coffee from these or he managed to get them anyway. He's labelled each and every one of these 332 tins, all with different stuff. and I've I've only looked in literally a couple of them.

so I'm gonna actually open them now. see what's inside? Now the amazing thing about this is that all these parts I believe aren't new. They've been salvaged from all of his years of taking gear apart and things like that. So everything with you know, nuts and bolts and spaces and everything else.

Well, probably the majority of it I'd say is probably going to be salvaged. So let's go let's take a look at this amazing collection. And if you don't believe this, 332 tins here, well you can count them for yourself. Check it out.

We've got 12 across by nine deep. plus a few extras down here. So yeah, at my account, that's yeah. Almost a shame it's not 333.

What a bummer. Completely random here. I've got these eight ones which were sitting down the side here. so let's have a look.

357 Series: Pan Head: Let's take a look there we go look at all that they. They look actually pretty new. Awesome two-part nylon chassis clamps. What they've been salvaged from? I don't know.

Have they been salvaged from something? Yeah, perhaps. Cheese head, pan, hex socket? Oh yeah. actually we're doing okay. There's not many in there at, uh, plastic Grommets.

so just a couple of miscellaneous plastic grommets. Gone to all the trouble to label this tin just to put a couple of plastic grommets in. Anyway, Um, well. you gotta can I consider the future.

Collar clamps? Let's have a look. These are. Uh yeah. these are.

Yep, you can tell these have come out of gear so they would hold caps. You know, large caps and things like that in place. Uh, 357 series? Uh. Bugle Head: Wow.

look at that there. See, I no idea, they look new. Oh no, there's a few smaller ones in there. Things like that two-part insulating blocks.

There you go. Obviously he's obviously got those out of I don't Know something and Beale Pritchett Brass threads. I never heard of Beale Pritchett brass threads, but obviously, look, there's his. Salvage those from something awesome.

And the next eight Random. Well, eight sort of happens to fit in the shot here. Collar clamps toda more of those. So yeah.

Fantastic cambric sleeves. Oh, look, look at that. That's into it. Look.

Yeah, So he's uh, they're obviously used chopped up. Oh, that had a funny smell and more. collar clamps, nylon hole plugs. Friction fit.

look. So where the hell has he gotten those from? He's obviously gotten those out of some specific gear and thought, yeah, I'll keep those. No worries. Square feet.

Oh oh oh my goodness. Look at that. Like, why would you keep those? That's just like, ah, that's crazy. Like, you know, I'd you know, toss those straight in the dumpster.

That's ridiculous. Metal hole plugs? Look. look at that. Unbelievable brackets.

Sheet metal, omega cross section. Oh yeah, that's there. It is. An Omega cross section.

The Ohm symbol. Omega rubber, round, medium, black. All these rubber feet. Ah, look at that.

More just miscellaneous hardware and mechanical. Yes, they are all like, uh, sorted into different categories. So there's mechanical. There's hardware, There's screws, threads, and feet, and all sorts of stuff.

So we've got nylon snap bushings. Wow. Wow. Look at all those nylon snap bushings.

That's chocker. There's some zip locks in there. probably ziploc ones that come from the same thing. Mechanical rods? Check it out.

Look at that. All these mechanical rods of all different shapes and sizes. Wow. You know that's a that's a keeper.

If you're into, you know, jewelry making little one-off robots or something like that. And uh, gosh. Shelf pins? Um. drawing drawing pins? All right.

Uh. pulleys. mechanical pulleys and things. Just a couple.

You know. Yeah. Like you know you pull apart printers and stuff like that. You'd get those.

um. mechanical guides, mechanical guides? Yeah, okay. Yep. and more rubber grommets.

Let's have a look. Crikey. look at that. Wow.

That's insane. That is insane. Anyone need a rubber grommet? Yeah. Tip those out and you might find one.

Geez. Mechanical collars? Look at all that. Let's look at some screws and uh. fixings and things.

So self-tapping. unsorted. Oh my goodness. Wow.

Assorted self-tappers Jeez. You couldn't find what you wanted in there. You weren't trying. Metal pan head, metal threads.

Just, you know. All miscellaneous ones, all obviously salvaged screws, metal thread, unsorted. Crikey. Wow.

that's just insane. Like are they all like they're not even all like M3? They're just different. Uh, different sizes. Unbelievable pan head all through it.

There we go. some nice uh, Phillips and Flathead mixed suction cups. We got a couple of suction cups, so yeah, you've got to go to all the effort to get a coffee tin. Um, it looks like these coffee tins are used.

Look, look, oh, I may. well, maybe not. No, that's just that. sorry.

yeah, that's maybe just from the lid opening and closing like that. But is there any residual coffee in there? Try to smell it. The rubber's masking the smell. I don't think so.

so I think he probably didn't. Uh. drink all this coffee. And anyway, uh.

blank head, square shank? Jeez. Look at those. Unbelievable. Oh, that's heavy cap head, hex socket struth.

Wow. Unbelievable. It's a shame that they're not all sorted though. Yeah, you can find the one you're after, but you know if you need like, four of the same.

Yeah. Pretty screwed. Wow. Screwed.

yeah, pun intended. Wow. It was just crazy in defeat. Look at this.

you know. adhesive. Oh hello. That looks like some packets.

Maybe there's some new, but no looks. Some of them are just old crap ones. I mean, you know, without the adhesive on them. Plastic feet? Look at.

oh look. instrument feet. So he's obviously taking those off. You know, some scope that's a, uh, that's a power cord wrapping.

um thing. So you know, salvaged some vintage gear and kept all these plastic. Oh wow. Look.

look, that's just god. I can't even get that back in. Oh no. rubber.

Round. large, huge feet like that. Unbelievable plastic bolt mounts. Wow.

Jeez. Crazy. More from the couch from a used couch. Like why? Why he's got two tins of couch feet for couches.

Just in case I have to replace the feet on my, uh, you know, a foot or feet plural on my couch. More miscellaneous stuff. Extension springs. Wow.

Look at that set of springs. Yeah. Handy if you just need like a single screw like you know, like like having a spring drawer in your parts collection. For example.

Very handy brackets. Oh my goodness. Look at these. Oh damn, I'm not gonna fit those back in properly.

Spindle Pressure plates. What the hell? A spindle? Ah right. Spindle pressure Plate: Nylon. Quick release Snap fit.

There you go. Brackets Sheet metal brackets, L form brackets. Yeah, I will never get those. Never get those back in yet.

No, I got no. No mounts. Ribbon cables Snap fit. What? Like ribbon cable for holding down ribbon cables? Unbelievable supports.

Key slots. Oh look. Pcb supports. There you go look.

Nice washes. Oh, that's heavy. Small flat washers? anyone? Small flat washers? Well, I'd love to show you the rest of them. but look, there's 332 of these tins.

We've only gotten through like a couple of dozen. Oh, Unbelievable. Anyway, it gives you. I think it's a reasonable, uh, cross section of what's here, but I literally have not looked at all the ones under here.

But uh, from when I actually saw the collection when it was on the big display stand, here's some photos. uh, by the way of what it originally, uh, looked like how he had them uh, installed in his, uh, garage on the shelves. So it's just incredible. Like most of this stuff as you saw, is salvaged from gear.

just like how many decades of taking apart gear, putting them in all these coffee tins labeling each one. It's actually amazing because all the labels seem to have been like done at a similar time because they're all exactly the same font. uh, like on exactly the same paper, everything else. So you know, like it makes me feel like he's gone through and just you know, done it in one hit.

Or you know, like maybe done it all in a year or something like that. It's not like you know he's done it over the last 20 years because it's likely that you're not going to be able to, you know, print out exactly the same labels over that period of time. Maybe he's re-labeled them or something. went through and relabeled his entire collection.

That's what his other collection of electronic parts was like too. It looked like they'd all been like labeled on the same day, and this is a similar sort of thing. But I'm just wow. What do I do with all this? I mean, you know you can't sell it.

You can't go along. Hey hey buddy, you want to buy some nylon cable fittings. These are free twist rings. Good price mate.

No worries, You know, like what are you supposed to do? sell this crap? Toss it out. It's like I and I. I would have to index it all to see everything that's there. And by the time you come down, well, I've got to come down into the bunker.

Maybe some of it. Like, you know, basic stuff, like you know, your main screws and things like that. screws, nuts, washers, all that sort of jazz. You know, stuff that you're always using all the time.

Yeah, I'll probably take those back to the lab. What I'm gonna do with the rest of them. All your nylon standoffs and your Pcb supports and all your rubber parts and bloody couch feet. I mean, give me a break, they go straight in the bin.

That's that's just ridiculous. So 330 I haven't even looked like. That's all I've looked through. the couple of dozen that we had there.

that's like, that's it. That's all we've just looked through then. So I got no idea what's in the rest of these. so I got no idea what to do with the rest of this collection.

And it's all. that's all. Pretty yucky on top. like you know, spider webs and dust and crap and all sorts of bloody rat droppings or something.

You have to go wash my hands. you know, it was out in a garage and it ordered. There were some cobwebs over like the upper parts of the shelves and things like that. But anyway, that's just a quick look at this collection from David Sparks from his home workshop.

So imagine the amount of time and effort that went into just this, let alone the electronic parts. If you haven't watched that video, link it in. As I said, go watch it. Absolutely amazing.

One of the world's biggest, And if it's not the world's probably not the world's biggest, but one of the most meticulously sorted collections ever. Which, ah, it's just crazy. And this is this alone is crazy. 330 tins of just stuff.

It's just amazing that they're in tins. If they're all in like, you know, regular hardware bins. you know, drawers, things like that, you probably wouldn't think much of it, but it's just quite amazing. They put them all into exactly the same Jarrah Coffee tins.

They're all exactly the same. And there was a whole bunch of spare Jarrah coffee tins there waiting as well. So ah, unbelievable. Anyway, hope you enjoyed that.

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