Bucket List - Page 2

Beer/Soda/Whatever alum drink bucket

Rotor/armature bucket

Gold Plated bucket ( for those odd ones, not pins )
Connector bucket
Cell Phone Bucket
Cell Phone Battery Bucket ( All taped )

an now thanks to Eric over there int he buyer thread I have a small bucket for Ta Caps. har!



Sirscrapalot - Have buckets will profit.

Yes i'm a bucket fan, you certainly can't have enough buckets or tubs or containers to organise bits.
I'm normally not very organised, I prefer to work in more of a chaotic way, to an outsider it looks like
i've no idea but things come together in the end.

but e-waste scrapping doesn't seem to work very efficiently if your not well organised, at the start I just assumed
it would all come together but quickly realised double & triple handling of anything is just a waste of valuable time.
so I been organising my garage to suit scrapping, got a long way to go but I've most of my buckets in place.

Here's my garage desk, it's where I sit and chill out.
mostly i'm there at night time doing little fiddly things whilst listening to music.
the bucket on the desk is my bucket bong, sometimes I like to have a few to get into it.



the buckets here are suited to that type of work, little fiddly bits and higher traffic items.



the coffee tin is normal batteries to be recycled..



on the floor in front of my chair is two incoming bit tubs, basically all the little bits I pull off boards,
heat sinks that need cleaning up, little transformers ect that need to be put in it's bucket..



further up I just stack mobo's as they don't fit into anything well, but here's another form of bucket,
a heavy old filing cabinet with a T bar padlocked so it's like a safe..



on top of the cabinet is two microwaves that are temporary cpu/ram chip cabinets..



in the filing cabinet there's one for finger cards and one for kept h/d's..



one for cables and wires I keep..



and the bottom one is for more plugs and finger things..



need to cut it short as we can only post 10 pictures in one post it seems..

a bucket for my collection of heat sinks I keep, and there's an over flowing bucket of them ferrite pieces that come from tv yolks that need to be smashed up and seperated, and the floor there's vacuum motors..



and just in the door is a mess with power boards on the floor and a shopping trolley overloaded with degausing cables..



really need to clear these and get some more buckets in that spot, can't see the cables well, here's a better look..



outside I have my sexy six, well nothing really sexy about them but here they are..



sheet aluminium & domestic aluminium buckets..



cast aluminium & dirty aluminium buckets..



extruded aluminium & stainless steel buckets..



That's it, that's all my buckets that suit what I scrap and the way I like to do it.

Incoming - things to be dismantled

Parts to be kept
steel
plastic/recycling
garbage

al breakage
al mixed - gets sorted to
-sheet
-ext.
-cast
-chunky
-foil

Wire - that gets sorted to
-small
-medium
-big
-ribbon cable
-drop cord
-romex

magnets
elec. motors
batteries
-scrap lead
-LI-ON
-NI-MH
-alkaline to be recycled

sheet copper
bare brite
copper #1
copper #2

microwave plates

big transformers
small transformers

silver mylar
alternators
a/c power no wire
wire ends
large capacitors
stainless steel
speakers - to be broken down
computer fans
Low grade boards
low-mid boards
High grade boards
-mb
-cd/dvd
-hd
-ram
-tel-com
-cpu

Gold Pins
lead
zinc
h.d. platters
pewter

And since I'm just starting I've got 5 other bucket of things that I don't know the name of yet and one more bucket of stuff.

What about magnesium?

on the workbench I have 3 more buckets, the stainless pot is for stainless steel bits,
the black bucket is for that silvery wire from around crt's I like to keep, and the one on the right are tv yolk clamps..



I just like 'em...



against the other wall is my bigger buckets with milk crates at the base for other things too..





from right to left there's a bucket for ribbon tape, a bucket for mid grade boards, and on the ground below it's just heavy transformers..



next is #2 copper and a milk crate with power adapters ect..



then there's the bright n shiny Millberry bucket and in them crates go small tranformers..



the insulated wire bucket and my crate for flouro light ballasts..



my bucket for little motors from fans, printers ect which is just a scrapped wet/dry vacuum canister, and a crate for tv yolks that need to be smashed up..

Wow!! You da man!!! So how do you get that much stuff to tear up?

Cool thread here. I like your list. How 'bout a empty baked bean can, or a bucket, for the bazillion screws you twist out of all that stuff? Or, do you toss all of those in your short steel pail? I have a second screw can, just for the no-magnetic ones and I also have a bean can that holds those awesome powerful magnets as well. lb

and that concludes our tour of the bucket museum down under, dew drop in again sometime

Originally Posted by auminer

Scrapperben wins the bucket contest! NICE setup. I'm jealous.

Me too! Way organized...

Thanks but I didn't want to be the end all of posts in this thread, there should be lots more buckets to list.
I guess pictures do tell a thousands words looking back at my pics, without any words I think everyone here would know exactly what I scrapped.

This mornin as I was sittin on the bucket... Well never mind wrong bucket

What did the big bucket say to the little bucket?

You look a little pail!

Originally Posted by scrapperben

What did the big bucket say to the little bucket?

You look a little pail!

Ben gets the bad pun of the day award to.

My compliments sir!

Sirscrapalot - Knows a bad pun when he hears one, tho it still made him chuckle.