Any uses for dead Atari 2600 power supplies?

[phaxda]

In between hacking up my lungs I am sorting some old stuff that I definitely do not want. I have several Atari 2600 power supplies that do not work. Should I just chuck these or is there anything they can be used for?

[Cebus Capucinis]

Tie three of them together and make a bolo to trip people?

[phaxda]

Or rewire them for "authentic" lamp cables?

[accousticguitar]

Leave it to Cebus to think up a use for them.

[Corby]

Tie three of them together and make a bolo to trip people?

 

 

[atari181]

You can cut off the power pack and use them to tie up stray monkeys.

[phaxda]

Now we're talkin'!

 

You can cut off the power pack and use them to tie up stray monkeys.

[Player 3]

Power cables make good whips. That's what the whip prop Harrison Ford used in the Indiana Jones series.

Just kidding...

 

 

[Benzman66]

I sold a box of 24 bad Atari power supplies on Ebay awhile back. Got $2.50 for them plus the $10+ dollars for the flat rate shipping. Not a big profit, but buys a cup of coffee and keeps them out of the dump.

[phaxda]

Yup, that's about what I am thinking. Threw them in my Box of Doom^TM and will probably just put that whole thing on eBay for some lucky buyer. Buy enough stuff, bound to get some crap.

[zylon]

Use them for old cannon shot in the next console war

[Cebus Capucinis]

Actually that re-wiring idea sounds like a really good one. I'm concerned I'll light my house on fire, though.

[tetrode kink]

At the risk of steering this thread dangerously close to the Marketplace territory, I'd be interested in two or three.

 

-tet

[A.J. Franzman]

If the primary winding is not open (reads less than infinite ohms between the two wall prongs) they can be fixed better than 90% of the time. I have fixed a bunch of them myself. Other than the transformer windings going open, the usual mode of failure is for the conductors inside the cord to break right near the wall cube. Patience and skill with a sharp chisel can get the cube open with little to no damage away from the seam. Then the cord can be cut off, the strain relief drilled out, the cord threaded through it again, knotted and resoldered to the rectifier board. A little super glue and a vise to put the case back together, and voila', a working wall wart with a cord only a few inches shorter than when it was new, and almost impossible to see any signs that it was tampered with.

[fiddlepaddle]

Put a bunch of them together and tangle the cords all up and donate them to Goodwill.

[Prodos8]

Put a bunch of them together and tangle the cords all up and donate them to Goodwill.

Ummm...No, I'm the guy that spends thirty minutes untangling them to get the one I want.

[nathanallan]

Light duty, 8-bit flails. Hey, they swing nice!

 

I also spend the time to untangle the one I want

Edited May 4, 2010 by nathanallan

[Shantai]

Put a bunch of them together and tangle the cords all up and donate them to Goodwill.

 

ROFL!!!

 

"That's for selling ET 2600 carts for $5.99 you bastards!" lol

 

sry couldn't resist

[DickNixonArisen]

If the primary winding is not open (reads less than infinite ohms between the two wall prongs) they can be fixed better than 90% of the time. I have fixed a bunch of them myself. Other than the transformer windings going open, the usual mode of failure is for the conductors inside the cord to break right near the wall cube. Patience and skill with a sharp chisel can get the cube open with little to no damage away from the seam. Then the cord can be cut off, the strain relief drilled out, the cord threaded through it again, knotted and resoldered to the rectifier board. A little super glue and a vise to put the case back together, and voila', a working wall wart with a cord only a few inches shorter than when it was new, and almost impossible to see any signs that it was tampered with.

 

 

When the zombocalypse comes, I wanna hang with you. Just letting you know.

 

My skills: good marksman, know edible plants, perfect game of contra

[bohoki]

use the cord to repair mic cables?