What can a Maker Salvage from Old Computer Parts?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ส.ค. 2023
- Hello there and welcome to my video. In today's video, I'll be going over what I, as a maker/hobbyist, like to salvage from old, dead computer parts that are going to be sold off as scrap to a recycler.
Music, in order:
Beyond - Patrick Patrikios
Papov - Yung Logos
Sunny Days - Anno Domini Beats
DVD and power supply enclosures can be used as project boxes, in addition to the top and side aluminium panels of the case. Lots of different colored wires in the power supply are always useful and easy to cut off, chunky 2w resistors and odd value Zener diodes at the power supply board can be handy, and I always save the special insulating screws that attach the components to the heatsinks.
I have a big box full of parts I've salvaged from dead PCs but I've never gone as far as pulling things apart to save internal components. Frankly, I wouldn't know what they were good for a week later. Case fans and optical drives, especially the slim type, have really come in handy.
I flip the boards over and use a heat gun to de-solder the parts as it heats them less.
Want to say this, your my favorite youtuber, and thanks for another amazing video! Nice Finds! Definitely Re-useable
great video, glad i learned something this morning
Despite not having your background in electronics, I’ve also disassembled my fair share of components 😅 I’ve got boxes of those switches, cooling fans, power sockets and small motors… they eventually DO come in handy
5:27 I’d salvage the heatsink bracket, as I’ve dealt with some of these old motherboards with a broken tab on the bracket, which prevents the heatsink from firmly securing to the CPU, requiring fastening it with cable ties 😂
Great video
Ahh that's a good idea, I'll probably grab that board and unscrew that bracket here soon, thanks!
@@CompHwTipsAndTutorials you’re welcome 👍🏼
ODD was one of my fave hardware ever exist. Well, seeing you disassemble that. I'm fine not mad or anything else
Right now, it only useful for legacy things. Like installing software for printer, etc. Even for entertainment
ODDs are still definitely useful for some things. This one in particular was broken, which is what ended it up in the pile (cleaning the laser didn't fix it btw)
Haha, I did all that you said at the start of the video every thing but never salvaged anything here to see what's up " :)
I prefer to keep the motherboard intact and keep it as a decor, I had a psu at home and I disaasembled it, cut all the wires, bought some new female headers and pins and make them into new extended cables
Awesome resourcefulness!
I scrapped a sattellite decoder recently and got a 2TB hard drive, a power supply and a fan which i use for soldering extraction now. Score.
Awesome score there! I'd love to find something like that someday.
I had older Motherboard but mine is MSI for Intel 775. Seeing that Asus Motherboard, this one just looks premium for the time
I was kinda 👎 as it lacks of onboard VGA. But at that time, users using dGPU whether it was Nvidia or ATI Radeon (before become AMD Radeon)
If you have an office prebuilt power supply, and it has enough wattage for a higher gpu, they make a Sata Power to PCIE 8-pin adapter. It's a way to save money, and you wont have to purchase a whole other power supply.
Definitely true! I always save the good and working power supplies, because they're useful for projects and you can adapt them like this. Although make sure to keep an eye on those adapters, as depending on the way your GPU chooses to draw its power (from the slot primarily or the power connector) and how much power it draws, it can overload the SATA connectors and cause them to melt. Stay safe!
Waste not want not!👍👍
Could I ask you in the ikea unit you have components in orange boxes where did you get those from?
I 3D printed them; I probably should put the files on Thingiverse/instructables at some point. I'll try to remember to update you if/when I do that!
Ah id love to hv that file because im plainning to buy that storage unit for my electronics, am i right thats an ikea unit?
The small lineal motor is actualy usual stepper motor
What about all the copper?
I usually sell all the copper off to a recycler that buys it as scrap metal because I don't have the equipment/time to salvage it myself.
Sorry Bro, but zzzzzzzzz
We're funny. You're young, but like old stuff and I'm an old geezer and I'm only interested in the newer stuff. Ah well, yin and yang.
Are you having a stroke?
@@SuperAtom16 ahahahaha, Excellent!
Yeah, not every video will appeal to everyone, and that's okay! As long as I'm having my fun making the videos and at least several people are enjoying 'em, I'm happy!
@@CompHwTipsAndTutorials Great attitude, GF. My name is kemble. I guess that I'll keep calling you GF until you provide a different name.
You're pretty good for putting up with me. 2 ex wives couldn't. I am pretty obnoxious. I always have been. I honestly mean no harm. I was a plumber for 23 years and we are kind of a rough bunch. One of my sayings is, I'm not anti social. I just hate everybody. 😁😀🙃
What's the next video gonna be out?
All good man! You're pretty fun to talk to a lot of the time. Next video will (hopefully) be out in 8-ish hours and since it'll come out so soon, I won't provide many details as to not spoil it ;)
All I'll say is, it's full of tests on an older and cheaper yet still capable hardware configuration, I think you might find it enjoyable!