METAL GREEBLIES - What do you use?

DylanRose

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It's funny to think that there's a market for bins of miscellaneous spare parts. But if someone was selling it i'd buy it.

I've been doing some digging recently into good sources for metal greeblies and thought I would share some findings and see if anyone else has gone down this rabbit hole who would like to share. My use case was finding parts for a lightsaber interior but there's tons of other uses as well. So if you've got a great source for greeblies and weird parts, post it here!

I started the search looking at brass fittings and components for small electronics. A quick google image search for 'Brass electronics' reveals a small universe of great looking parts which I have no familiarity with but suddenly need in my shop. I have yet to find a good source for buying assortments of these sorts of things but if anyone knows of any please share!
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My next stop was aluminum upgrades for model cars. This is a wonderful rabbit hole to go down. I



Here's some great sites I was exploring:
http://www.tedsmodelingmarketplace.com/
http://www.vcgresins.com/main.html
https://www.megahobby.com/categories/aftermarket-parts/model-car-detail-parts.html


I'll add more as i find them. Where do you guys get your miscellaneous odds and ends??


 
My current job is carrying out electrical testing and maintenance of rental properties and since I started building Sabers I've been scavenging all sorts of greeblies from decorative light fittings, old motors, PC hard drives, heaters etc, pretty much anything I remove or replace. UK electrical plugs tend to have brass pins like your second pic, I collect them as well. I like the look of RC car rims for blade plugs or a crystal mount. I've also bought packs of assorted copper, brass and ally ott cuts from K&S metals.
Darth Chasm posted a thread on FXSabers full of stuff like this including spare parts from tatooing equipment. :)
 
I have an old sub amp module and old SONY VCR waiting stripping down. I'm sure there are goodies to be had inside.
 
Where I live there was once a store that sold pick-and-mix parts for making necklaces. They had small gold-plated pins, plates, rings, fasteners and stuff.
I was the only guy in there... :lol
 
At work we have a bin where we toss electrical and electronic garbage for recycling. My colleges always why they so often find me head down in the chuck-bin...

The best thing about these old machine parts is that they have natural patina to start with. I love old and worn!
 
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