Desktop Tower Analysis

**newattitude** · 07-09-2011, 07:19 AM

I need to live where you do - none of the yards by me buy the CPU's/fans separately. One buys the boards for 30 cents a pound but not the big CPU's if I take them off. BTW, the fans are plastic - do you throw the fins away or are they buying them as is?

**easyrecycle** · 07-09-2011, 08:26 AM

Originally Posted by dherik

my platters go in my refining pile, that's why I break them down.

It still takes to much time to open each one an ect. They dont even use the same bit size so you have to keep on changing bits an its just a pain in my ^$@#

newattitude inside the fans there is a motor that I send off to the copper mill for refining an what do you mean fins?

**newattitude** · 07-09-2011, 08:36 AM

^^ Wrong word descriptive lol, I meant the plastic blade part. I thought the OP meant those. Whats a ''Platter?''

**dherik** · 07-09-2011, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by easyrecycle

It still takes to much time to open each one an ect. They dont even use the same bit size so you have to keep on changing bits an its just a pain in my ^$@#

I'm very methodical in my breakdown process, I tend to create sets of same types together and do them on an as needed basis. I'd rather have 300 of those torx head screws than ever have to deal with phillips again.

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

There is a coating only a couple of atoms thick of platinum, but yes the actual platter is aluminum. On the HD's the top cover can be stainless or cast aluminum, and the bottom is usually cast alum.

A couple atoms thick on both sides, and most older drives have two platters. When you have 350 drives sitting in a box that's 700 platters or 1400 sides with a couple 'atoms' thick. It all adds up if you're in this game for the long haul and not a quick buck.

**easyrecycle** · 07-09-2011, 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by dherik

A couple atoms thick on both sides, and most older drives have two platters. When you have 350 drives sitting in a box that's 700 platters or 1400 sides with a couple 'atoms' thick. It all adds up if you're in this game for the long haul and not a quick buck.

Still have to count the time it takes to do all of that work. I send them whole to the shredder an then have the metal process for the Al an platinum.

For those who don't know why they use platinum here is the reason.

We all know a magnet wont stick to Al so how can the hard drive ready the 1 an 0s (1 an 0s stand for north an south on the hard drive) so the only thing that can hold a WEAK magnet field an not change the field next to it...is platinum. That is why you will not find any steel or other metals inside of a hard drive...the hard drive can only have one magnet field in an around it..the Al acts like a shield from outside magnet fields but only small/weak ones That is why they say do not place your laptop or hard drives where they may be a high magnet field. This is a very short an easy way of explaining this...if you would like to learn more then read up on it.