Love this. When I was a kid, my friend and I used to visit radio and TV stores to scrounge old radio chasses just like this. We take them home, not to repair them, but to scavenge them for the parts. We'd use these big ass soldering irons or guns to remove the components, pull the tubes, and remove all the pots and other mechanical parts. Once we had pulled everything we could, the rest would go into the trash. All the parts would go into separate storage boxes by type and by value.

Why did we do this? Well, we told ourselves we were going to build some ham radio equipment. Of course, we never did and all the parts eventually got scrapped but when you're 10 years old and summer days lasted forever, it was fun way to spend a few hours.