Finds at recycling drop-off

[Gendo Ikari]

Hi all!
Long time no..post?

Anyhow, I took a buttload of dead hard drives, board's, and old AT desktop's to the recycling drop-off a few towns over. Of course, I couldn't help but look through the treasure that had been left, and this is what I reclaimed;
*a Sony VAIO PCV-RZ32G minus the hard drive, and also missing the bottom northbridge heatsink clip loop thingy on the motherboard. If anyone knows how I can fix this?...

*A generic Socket 462 system with an Audigy soundcard. Turns out the socket 462 was a duron 650mhz, ick... But 256MB's worth of 133mhz ram, non the less! It also had an ATI Rage 128 AGP card, LOL!

*A Geforce 2 AGP card. One of mine just died and I have no more. =3

*Three or four sticks of 32-64MB PC100 RAM

Other stuff that I saw but didn't take include a 286 machine, a 486 packard bell( I took the 486 CPU lol) WITH windows 3.1 manual (thick!), a wierd satellite tv thingy that looked like a NAT storage devices, or like two external zip drives stack on one another, connected with a printer cable, but it also had a USB port? Most of the stuff there consisted of HUGE CRT montiors, some of them four years old or less, as well as VCRs, DVD players, and tuners.

[Logistics]

Re: Finds at recycling drop-off

a Sony VAIO PCV-RZ32G minus the hard drive, and also missing the bottom northbridge heatsink clip loop thingy on the motherboard. If anyone knows how I can fix this?

Choose a very common, easily obtainable heatsink + fan combo; use Arctic Silver thermal adhesive!

[370forlife]

Re: Finds at recycling drop-off

I believe its called artic silver ceramique?

[stevo1210]

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If only computer recycling places exist here in Australia.... I'd probably be there everyday to find something good....
Ugh, here in Australia no one gives a damn about computer recycling.... you've actually gotta pay a large amount of money to get old stuff dispose. Obviously no one wants to do that so it just goes in the garbage bin or onto the sidewalk for others to pick up or smash to bits....

[pentium]

Re: Finds at recycling drop-off

Recycling here is very territorial.
They call the cops on me when I come asking.
It must be because I always want the old stuff and it is always the most gold rich.
That leaves me searching through the landfill for computers but I usually find other stuff as well.

[arneson]

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What a pertinent topic, because
I always come away from the dump with as much as I bring.
I've scored a lot of UPS's because there's a whole section of APC's.
That Viao is a good find, hope you restore it.
I'm a real trash hound.

[Gendo Ikari]

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I've scored a lot of UPS's because there's a whole section of APC's.

Isn't that dangerous?

[kc8adu]

Re: Finds at recycling drop-off

What a pertinent topic, because
I always come away from the dump with as much as I bring.
I've scored a lot of UPS's because there's a whole section of APC's.
That Viao is a good find, hope you restore it.
I'm a real trash hound.

so you scratch big brown delivery trucks backed up by armored personell carriers?

[Wizard]

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No. Arctic Silver thermal adhesive as someone said.

It is 2 tube and have to mix equal amounts and apply, use what is needed and store the tubes for next use. It has extreme short pot life once the glue is mixed. So get items prepared first then mix up then squeeage some on, clamp the heatsink on. And leave it overnight to cure fully.

Fixed toshiba DTR's loose heatsink bent up heatpipes and slightly mashed fins on the heatpipes by taking it apart, repair everything then, took about 8 sessions of mixing to get all fins on (every 6 to 8 fins) due to pot life is so short. A caution: don't let this cured thermal glue freeze, bonding failure occurs.

Cheers, Wizard

[Gendo Ikari]

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Well, I talked my parents into taking me over to the Recylcing center again, since I had a box full of stuff buried under some stuff next to my bed.

This time I found an HP system with a 1.3GHz Athlon, and a snazzy 2.53GHZ Celeron system from '04, at least according to the best buy stickers on it.

I also got a bag of goodies, since the people who dumped the HP sytem left a zip lock full of manuals, cables, and an optical USB mouse and keyboard. =3

I also pulled a tower with room for 9 HDD's, no side panels thou. =/ I climbed over a couple of large cardboard containers to get it thou. Maybe I should have dug for side panels, but I didn't want the people there to get upset ;;>_>

I pulled two DLINK 100mbps NIC cards out of an ANCIENT pentium machine, looks like it might have been a server or gateway/router of sorts. It was a tower, but the PCI cards and ISA were mounted on a daughterboard above the motherboard. Very strange...

I also saw a HUGE tv, like...40inch?, which smashed some poor monitor underneath it, a couple pans, a motor, and a HUGE printer, like 4ft wide at least, apparently used to print out blueprints? O_o Oh, I saw a Macantosh LC as well! LOL And a whole assortment of gutted laptops, stripped to the bones.

[370forlife]

Re: Finds at recycling drop-off

No. Arctic Silver thermal adhesive as someone said.

It is 2 tube and have to mix equal amounts and apply, use what is needed and store the tubes for next use. It has extreme short pot life once the glue is mixed. So get items prepared first then mix up then squeeage some on, clamp the heatsink on. And leave it overnight to cure fully.

Fixed toshiba DTR's loose heatsink bent up heatpipes and slightly mashed fins on the heatpipes by taking it apart, repair everything then, took about 8 sessions of mixing to get all fins on (every 6 to 8 fins) due to pot life is so short. A caution: don't let this cured thermal glue freeze, bonding failure occurs.

Cheers, Wizard

You mean like this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835100005

Cheap way to cool overheating northbridges, put a old p3 heatsink on it.

[pentium]

Re: Finds at recycling drop-off

Well, I talked my parents into taking me over to the Recylcing center again, since I had a box full of stuff buried under some stuff next to my bed.

This time I found an HP system with a 1.3GHz Athlon, and a snazzy 2.53GHZ Celeron system from '04, at least according to the best buy stickers on it.

I also got a bag of goodies, since the people who dumped the HP sytem left a zip lock full of manuals, cables, and an optical USB mouse and keyboard. =3

I also pulled a tower with room for 9 HDD's, no side panels thou. =/ I climbed over a couple of large cardboard containers to get it thou. Maybe I should have dug for side panels, but I didn't want the people there to get upset ;;>_>

I pulled two DLINK 100mbps NIC cards out of an ANCIENT pentium machine, looks like it might have been a server or gateway/router of sorts. It was a tower, but the PCI cards and ISA were mounted on a daughterboard above the motherboard. Very strange...

I also saw a HUGE tv, like...40inch?, which smashed some poor monitor underneath it, a couple pans, a motor, and a HUGE printer, like 4ft wide at least, apparently used to print out blueprints? O_o Oh, I saw a Macantosh LC as well! LOL And a whole assortment of gutted laptops, stripped to the bones.

Geez, that place seems pretty cool.
If you ever see a PDP or a DecTape drive, please let me know.

[dood]

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At my local recycling center they prosecute it as theft if you remove anything from the premises.

[Topcat]

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I have some decent inside sources at the electronics recyclers. If anything later model stuff comes through, they set it aside and we come get it. landed a lot of good stuff that way.

[Scenic]

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damn... i need some HDDs.. could you get me a few 20GB+ ones ?

jk ^^

[Gendo Ikari]

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Geez, that place seems pretty cool.
If you ever see a PDP or a DecTape drive, please let me know.

Huh, what are those? o.o pics please?

Also we usually ask before I climbing thru the mountain of stuff in the cargo container...

[pentium]

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Huh, what are those? o.o pics please?

Also we usually ask before I climbing thru the mountain of stuff in the cargo container...

Woah. O_o

Here is a PDP-8 (an /e version):



...and here is a DecTape drive:


Actually Topcat, you think you could pull a few strings and see if your sources can locate one?

At my local recycling center they prosecute it as theft if you remove anything from the premises.

Same here. Either that or they are just fed up with me taking the good stuff.

[jpdoe]

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What a coincidence! I was watching "the three days of Condor" the other day, and in the first scenes there was an oriental woman operating a DecTape drive. I've never seen one, so I was was wondering what kind of tape drive it was.

[Newbie2]

Re: Finds at recycling drop-off

At my local recycling center they prosecute it as theft if you remove anything from the premises.

Pretty much everything at a recycling center is pretty much considered garbage from other people who don't want it, so why would they have such law?

[dood]

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The recycling centers get money for computer stuff, plus there's liability of people crawling around the boxes.