I have no idea why, but the general vicinity I live in is full

>>1000974
thing in that photograph looks like some drunk electronician was out of circuit bard and said "fuck it, i have weld and iron, i'll just wire this shit together"

>>1000974
magnet wire from transformers

things to bother with:
tubes and tube sockets
output transformers
resistors
film/foil capacitors
large transformers for scrap copper

don't bother with electrolytics. they'll be so out of spec after this long that there's no point.

>>1000977
This is how consumer electronics were made before the advent of the PCB.

>>1000977
>he's never worked on tube electronics

Lel

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>>1001042
Perhaps he is the type who likes to solder them in directly.

>Don't

>>1000974
pots and switchs might be worth keeping to tinker with and also >>1000978, op

if the stuff looks like your pic in op dont even bother salvaging parts, most are probably past its tolerance (some might even have gone the way of the dodo)