Trash pick-up day was every Friday in my neighborhood. As a grade-schooler walking to school, I'd see all kinds of electronics in people's trashes. Much to my mother's dismay, I brought home things that I thought I could fix, and started repairing them in the basement. I'd strip parts from one unit to replace in others. We didn't hve much money, and I learned the hard way about stored voltages in capacitors and TV picture tubes, but I got a lot of extra things we otherwise never would have obtained, by selling repaired table-top clock radios, TV's and radios. Our family 9" black and white TV, was replaced by a Zenith 25" Color TV I got working. First time any of us had ever seen a
color TV. I just kept doing repairs, because I get personal satisfaction from taking something electronic that doesn't work, and making it work.