What did I get myself into this time? - Page 2

Originally Posted by JJinLV

He's referring to computer keyboards, some of which have mylar with silver trace. Keyboard instruments do not. Cheap keyboards especially are indeee mostly just plastic and air, occasionally having a decent circuit board or two and a little wire.

Keyboard from the organ has palladium wire and small palladium contacts on each key, the slider switches also have precious metals.

Originally Posted by JJinLV

He's referring to computer keyboards, some of which have mylar with silver trace.

Ahhh gotcha. I haven't tore one apart yet but I do have a laptop bottom to get into on Wednesday night at work. Maybe I'll find one there. I do have this. It came out of a system analyzer the other day.


Those tabs are stainless, am I correct?

Living up North your telephone service must be expensive, I've been using voip.ms for the past 10 years, below is what the service cost from February 1rst 2022 to today's date.

Calls: 262 | Duration: 11:39:41 | Total: $3.90

Voip.ms wiki page.

Originally Posted by wannabescrapper

Ahhh gotcha. I haven't tore one apart yet but I do have a laptop bottom to get into on Wednesday night at work. Maybe I'll find one there. I do have this. It came out of a system analyzer the other day.


Those tabs are stainless, am I correct?

The pad under touch pad mouse has gold traces.

We don't have a home phone but telus would give me a voip phone for $5/month if we wanted it. Cell plans are pretty pricey though. That one you have seems like a steal.

Originally Posted by wannabescrapper

We don't have a home phone but telus would give me a voip phone for $5/month if we wanted it. Cell plans are pretty pricey though. That one you have seems like a steal.

voip.ms i totally self administered, after you deposit funds into your account the amount is your choice, once completed choose a telephone number from any city or country of your choice. I live in Manitoba and have a Penticton number that rings at my home.

Regarding the funds, currently I have $100.00 with a $3.00 threshold set by me, when my account reaches that amount the system emails me a reminder that my account needs funds.

My number costs me a $1.00 a month, if I don't make any calls this is what I pay, there is no calling plans its the same $0.052 per minute wither I'm calling a neighbor or someone in New York. billed at 0.6 second increments.

I have a LG smartphone without a service provider, on this phone I use a softphone called zoiper free version from which I use on road trips, make calls from any wifi hotspot.

At home we have a voip desk phone then on my laptop I use zoiper pro a paid app, any phone number from a webpage is click to dial also a flag of the county shows me where I'm calling.

Zoiper pro on the laptop I have it set to auto answer, the app stays hidden, but on oncoming call it pops up as shown below.

On my blocked caller list I've created a filter to block anonymous, in the 10 years we've been using voip.ms only one telemarketer called. Once I added his/her number to my blocked caller list - never to be heard from again.

If I were to ravel to the UK with my LG, I could make calls using my Canadian phone number from any wifi hotspot, no need to purchase a sim card fro that country.

Originally Posted by cyberdan

I did a lot of reading from your search, thanks.

Also, the organ is gutted and waiting on the past owner to come and get the shell. I hunted very carefully for palladium. Didn't find any that had little short wires. The contacts where each key would turn on were long spring loaded touching an "L" shaped wire. could one or both be palladium? So every key has this type of contacts. The strip from the upper keys looks silvery, but the strip from the lower keys looks silvery with a hint of copper. How would I test for palladium?

At the top of the organ are many plastic colored on/off switches. Could the switch be PL also?

as far as bumble bees (see photo) how do I tell the difference between capacitors and resisters? These are a lot bigger than the rest of the ones.

Originally Posted by cyberdan

looks like I have larger resisters.

Resistor color codes. here.

Originally Posted by cyberdan

But are they worth anything? I can probably buy new ones for a quarter.

Unfortunately yours are low quality resistors.


Most five band resistors are precision resistors with tolerances of either 1% or 2% while most of the four band resistors have tolerances of 5%, 10% and 20%. The colour code used to denote the tolerance rating of a resistor is given as: Brown = 1%, Red = 2%, Gold = 5%, Silver = 10 %.