TH2002
Experienced Member
The organization I work for receives pallets of donations from Amazon every week. It's usually returns and overstock of various newly produced items, but a couple weeks ago we got something unusual on one of these pallets - an entire box full of old and grimey portable CD players. Most of them didn't have production dates, but a few said 2009, 2010 and 2011, respectively.
Day was slow today, so I took the liberty of testing each and every one I could. Don't have an exact count, but I'd like to say there were over 45 CD players total. No major brands like Sony from what I could tell, just a bunch of noname brands with Japanese, Korean and Chinese company names. Over half of the players (I'd like to say 60% of them) were completely dead junk. Broken lids, shattered/ruined LCD's, corroded/missing battery terminals, no signs of life, etc. 12 do power on, but of those only a whopping two of them actually read and play CD's. Might be able to revive some of those by cleaning the lasers though... we'll see. The remainder (totaling 9 players) I wasn't able to test since they use weirdly shaped 1.2v batteries that we didn't have on hand.
Photos: trash can full of the ones that didn't work. The two stacks of boxes are the ones that either showed some signs of life or I couldn't test.
Day was slow today, so I took the liberty of testing each and every one I could. Don't have an exact count, but I'd like to say there were over 45 CD players total. No major brands like Sony from what I could tell, just a bunch of noname brands with Japanese, Korean and Chinese company names. Over half of the players (I'd like to say 60% of them) were completely dead junk. Broken lids, shattered/ruined LCD's, corroded/missing battery terminals, no signs of life, etc. 12 do power on, but of those only a whopping two of them actually read and play CD's. Might be able to revive some of those by cleaning the lasers though... we'll see. The remainder (totaling 9 players) I wasn't able to test since they use weirdly shaped 1.2v batteries that we didn't have on hand.
Photos: trash can full of the ones that didn't work. The two stacks of boxes are the ones that either showed some signs of life or I couldn't test.
