# I have many old electronic parts - how can I use them?

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**Created:** [April 26, 2020, 11:33am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/i-have-many-old-electronic-parts-how-can-i-use-them/745 "2020-04-26T11:33:30Z")\
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Pretty sure there’s a ton of guitar effects builders out there that would be happy to buy those diodes and transistors from you 😃 These components may not be that useful for “classic” synth stuff (unlike the ICs), but if you’re into noise and distortion you can have a lot of fun with them.

(basically, any circuit with diodes in the signal path can benefit from having a big pile of diodes to play with, see e.g. [the schematics here](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/simple-distortion-unit/639)).

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