This is fascinating to me. I know when buying replacement car parts, the first place I always used to look was the junkyard, but I figured this was a very thor

This is fascinating to me. I know when buying replacement car parts, the first place I always used to look was the junkyard, but I figured this was a very thoroughly exploited field. (I used to, in my more shoestring and duct tape phase, build my server racks out of secondhand parts too, but I rapidly learned the power costs/lack of computational/hardware modernity bit me in the ass, so there's also my question of what sort of salvage doesn't fall prey to this?) My gut feel was broadly that it's cheaper to buy something new on digikey than to spend the man-hours cutting/heatgunning the part out of some junk. Clearly I'm wrong, so take this comment as a "I'd love to learn more if you're willing/able to talk about it"