Some of my ewaste finds (Pics included) - Page 29

I finally got some cutting wheels for my angle grinder and cut the time down to about 8 minutes.

yes thats the fastest way i know to remove the copper from them

Originally Posted by jimicrk

I finally got some cutting wheels for my angle grinder and cut the time down to about 8 minutes.

It is always when we need to use our angle grinder that we realize that it is our last disc and/or that we are out of spare ones. (I just had to go buy some this afternoon.)

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Not much to report on here....still picking up PC's but can't get to them because the garage is full of Christmas decorations from the attic. I did get the cast iron skillet cleaned but it's not seasoned completely. That tends to smoke up the kitchen and my wife wasn't having it. I told her to pick a day cause it gonna happen.
Anywho, Christmas times a coming and I need to hit a couple of scrapyards. See yall next year.

A blast from the past.
I installed a phone system in a hotel 12 years ago and this is what they used to get internet into the guest rooms. It can handle 144 rooms and what it does is apply a signal (DSL?) to an analog station from the phone system and then is connected to the guest room. In the guest room there is a box that separates the analog phone extension and the internet. They had already thrown the boxes from the rooms in the trash. There was also a big battery backup. I'm interested to see what kind of cards are inside.

I haven't been here much lately, but I'm still at it. Sent a box off a few weeks ago and had the garage nice and clean, which didn't last long. Got a call from one of my regulars and I have more ready to ship as soon as I get some pricing info back. This load had what I thought were thin clients but they turned out to be Optiplex 5060's. All had different components missing except 1. I think I'll keep it as a spare because the PC I usually use is giving me problems.
Has anyone ever used a 5060 before? This one has an 8th gen processor (i5 8500t) and 2 sticks of 8 gig memory.

You never know what you'll run into. If you can ... you might go into the BIOS and enable UEFI secure boot & TPM before you install the operating system. That way it would be eligible for the Win 11 upgrade when the time comes around.

That was something i missed earlier this year. A Cyberpower w/ AMD Ryzen 5 2600 , 8 gb ddr 4 ram, & high end video card came into the shop. Ditched the traditional hard drive for an SSD and then installed the OS. It's more machine than i really need for my purposes but it's fairly current as far as technology goes. Should last for awhile if i can keep updating the OS.

The thing is that it won't seem to let me enable TPM & secure boot. Best guess is that it should have been done before installing the new SSD & OS.

Originally Posted by jimicrk

Mike I've taken some smaller ones apart before but didn't get much copper out of them. I just weighed this one and it's 125 pounds and the center is filled with epoxy? Not sure but it would have to go in order to get to the copper. I might save it for a rainy day.

besides scrapping it for the copper, is there anything else that can be done with these toroidal transformers? I got one from a friend, it's not huge, but it looks like something I would want to incorporate into a DIY build instead of scrap it.

I was going to add some of my own photos instead of creating a whole new thread (hope that's ok), but my upload size is limited to 200 bytes. Anyone know why?

I have a question about the battery, I wanted to look for the battery in junkyards and I promise to go to them, which I found now, I will post the link. https://bestsalvageyards.com. But maybe you know if it's worth buying there, and maybe you have a better suggestion about the junkyards and how to do it better? I am waiting for your answer and suggestion.

Lost a contact and gained a contact.


I had been receiving computer scrap from this one guy for about 12 years until he past away last year. He was a super nice guy and I hate he is gone.

I recently received a call from the person who took his place wanting to know if I still picked up ewaste. Yes sir I do! I still haven't sorted through everything but I did get 35 PC's, 30 laptops and boxes and boxes of cables and power cords. My truck was squatting and it was a slow ride home.

I also received the 2 boxes of hard drives the other guy would never let me have. They are old drives with the big boards on them. I haven't seen those for a while now.

Anyhoo, posting a pic of the boards and hoping everyone has a great weekend.

Back from vacation.

I was going to post some pics but it's still showing an error. It says 333.77 MB of 7.42 MB Used. Okay I guess I have exceeded my limit by 326.35 MB.

HA!

Looks like I need to check out Imgur or some other alternatives.

What are some of you using to post pics?