EEVblog 1542 - A Decade of Dumpster Diving!
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- Highlights from a decades worth of diving the famous EEVblog dumpster!
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Thanks for inspiring people to save perfectly-working stuff from becoming waste. I've saved my fair share since first watching the old dumpster vids. So many companies can't be bothered to let a donation center take things away to get reused!
I believe they are not allowed to donate as they remain liable for any personal injury claims. If they throw out and people take them (strictly theft by finding) then they are not liable.
It's not just a decade of dumpster diving, It's been a decade of amazing videos, funny moments, excellent finds, and best of all, you've saved tons of E-Waste from landfill, repaired so many items and made us laugh.
BTW I have the same Panasonic PBX as the one at 3:41 in this video and I used it to make a telephone/PA system in my house. Best of all, my Panasonic PBX was found in hard rubbish which is cool because it works perfectly and is compatible with analogue phones.
And yes, it's truly amazing what people throw away. My greatest all time hard rubbish find was a giant stuffed teddy bear that had nothing wrong at all except for a small hole on the back. A Google search of the bear told me that it has a retail price of over $500 and I got one for free. I also saved it just in time because after I had gotten home, it started raining and the bear would've been ruined if I didn't save it when I did. Because I found it in hard rubbish, I named him Hardy and use him to calm down when I'm stressed.
Can't wait to see what the next decade of dumpster diving has in store. We'll have to wait and find out.
It's unbelievable. Someone must be funding someone to keep Dave's dumpster stocked up with goodies.
Dave I think we need to talk about your monitor hoarding lol
I do NOT have a problem.
@@EEVblog I'm just jealous of the plotter
🤣🤣🤣
And the printers are a bit of a worry too. :p
You don't want a plotter trust me
Man I am so jealous! Very nice things you have scored!
Seeing what he pays to be there....nah.
The thing I learned about your dumpster room is that there's are alot of companies in your complex that miss out on practically free PR, because all those PCs and monitors could supply whole schools (or similar notoriously underfunded institutions) in your district with free IT gear. :P
Agree. What a waste.
Dave you are an excellent as well as lucky dumpster diver. 10 years of it no less! Thanks for sharing in the fun.
Me when I find a pentium 4 PC with half of its parts missing:
A gift from the lord!!
You deserve a better class of dumpster.
I can't help but be a little jealous of the stuff you scored. I have scored a PC or two, and got them working.
Hey Dave, I'm a big fan of your videos. Please, come back with the white board stuff. Explaining and then demonstrating on the bench. Awesome content. I don't know if it's the content that bring most of the views, but boy, it's quality stuff. Best regards!
Unfortunately those videos get that many views. And people just pester me to do the exact thing that they want.
The working stuff they throw out is CRAZY !
I used to harvest the 19" monitors from my works bins, just for the thick piece of polycarb sheet. Useful as material in the worshop.
It really is insane what people throw out. I'm in the US, and when I go take off recycles, yard waste, etc.. at the local county dump, I always make sure to check the e-waste bin, and have found some really good stuff like ASUS laptops, HP Desktops, Amazon Kindles, etc..
I'd only need access to that dumpster room one a month. That dumpster room just keeps on giving.
It's just that Australia is on the opposite side of the planet.
So much WIN! Now take this one dumpster room and multiply it by the number of commercial buildings in the whole country and you can start to get an idea of the amount of "e-waste" that people discard all the time. It's astronomical. Most of this could be recycled and re-used, as we have seen that pretty much everything works.
love the dumpster find journey!!!
This video was awesome, good memories.
Unbelievable the value people throw away!
I watched all these videos one by one. It was always a pleasure to watch them, even though I was a little jealous sometimes. Now, however, I know that nothing really comes for free. Thank you for these 10 years of videos.
Yes, I'd imagine the rent for his office space wouldn't be cheap so that kind of offsets the free stuff.
But he never found any shitty screwdriver in those dives
I used to live in Santa Cruz CA during the 80's. There were a lot of high tech companies in the area, software and hardware.
I knew a bunch of people that made a living off of warranty returns that companies would just toss in the dumpsters!
I always had copies of the latest and greatest software, complete with manuals!
This was one of my favourite videos hehe.made me realize that i watched all the Dumpster Diving videos 😂😂😂
WOW. Just imagine how much all of the gear you have found over 10 years is worth !! SOOO much nice gear !!! I've found some nice stuff in my time but not in any way near the quantity you have !! May the diving continue !! :)
Awesome finds, in my country (the Netherlands) it's nearly impossible to find waste like this. It's all under so much control. This is TERRIBLE because a lot of great items are being thrown away that you are not allowed to reuse after they've been sent to the trash. It's insane how hard it is to find old e-waste.
That is stupid why are they so strict? They dont like farmers either, apparently
Because the Recycling-Cartel has it all under their control.
Corruption
Those Dictaphones are quite useful.. at least their pedals. I've got one of them around, they speak USB and emulate a mouse. So if you ever wanted to click with your feet instead of the fingers, get one of those!
U r the most Lucky man in the world thanks for the show and tell from England UK
That’s crazy! I was surprised to realize that I had watched ~90% of those when you originally posted them. Hard to believe it’s been 10 years.
the dumpster that just keeps giving!
My wife works for probably the biggest beer company in the world. She has been brining me home their "dead" tech back for years. So many free PC's and parts.
You've been one of my very favorite TH-camrs for long time Dave.
Favorite all-around (not just for EE'ing).
You've got an attitude that could FLY SOMEONE TO THE MOON!!!
I'm so jealous 😆. Love the video. Cheers.
Awesome what one can find in dumpster rooms.
Glad our e-waste had to go through my approval. Always sent an email to everyone if someone wants it. Since we’re an Apple reseller, there was nothing left after such an email. giving old ipads ro foster homes and see the surprised kids with their new toys was priceless
Awesome. :) A pleasure to watch. :D
Epic! Reminds me of how long I'm already subscribed 💯
Appropriate that I'm watching this on a 2006 40" Samsung LCD TV rescued from next to one of the apartment complex bins. Only issue was it wouldn't do full 1920x1080p on the HDMI with a PC connected. Hit up AVSforum, found a firmware update and a guide to the service menu. Works perfectly.
If you're lucky enough to live in an affluent college town, you'll easily discover literal gold mines. Towards the end of the school year, rich students will often dump brand year old computers, stereos, televisions and appliances because they just can't be bothered. One year I made over $35K reselling my scores on eBay and the classifieds. At the end of every semester, I would score nearly new textbooks in the trash and resell them, making hundreds of dollars.
Damn, that's next level diving
Incredible it's not a garbage room but the Alibaba cave!
Bin Hoakers United, we roam the night,
With curious hearts and a hunger for sight,
We scavenge through dumpsters, bins and all,
In search of treasures, big and small.
We don't care for labels or brands,
Our joy comes from what we find in our hands,
A book, a toy, a forgotten meal,
Each discovery, a unique thrill.
We're often met with disgust and scorn,
But we see the beauty in what is worn,
In things that others throw away,
We find potential, day after day.
Bin Hoakers United, we work as one,
With a shared purpose, and endless fun,
We celebrate the discarded and rejected,
And turn trash into treasures, unaffected.
So here's to the Bin Hoakers, brave and bold,
To the stories that our findings hold,
May our bins never be empty or bare,
For there's always something, waiting in there.
Amazing scores. I'd love to go dumpster diving and pull out a fully working PC that is better that the one I'm on now.
16:30 I have that exact same PC, the HP Pavilion. Serves me well, Got it back in 2014.
Plot twist: it wasn't a dumpster but a warehouse.
Solid bussines plan there.
0:22 I used to repair those Dictaphones... they were pretty reliable, but the earlier DCX versions were easier to work on... nice find!
Nothing beats dumpster diving, nothing!
One man's trash is another man's treasure hands down.
I think I'll move out to this office building. Wouldn't mind this at all hahaha
...so jealous. Great stuff!
Nothing gets wasted with Dave on the prowl.
Dave, I love your videos! I have been watching your channel since... well, I can't remember, maybe 2010 or so. I am Brazilian (but from Italian ancestors), born and raised here, and I'm a civil engineer. Believe me, you will hardly find these kind of e-waste in good conditions here. At least not in dumpsters like yours. There are people (mostly poor people) that act like scavengers, diving into public dumpsters trying to find anything valuable. They crack open any electronic device in the middle of the streets, take out copper wires, metals and other valuable items, and leave behind the plastic, glass, and all non-valuable parts.
I wish I could find a good working PC like these you found. My PC is a Pentium D with 8 GB RAM from 2006, and it is still working. Started with windows xp, than 7, now 10. I won't install 11 since it's not compatible with TPM 2.0.
Best regards!
0:26 I just upgraded from one of those last years, Core 2 Quad Q9650 and a GTX 770. Wasnt great, wasnt bad!
I check dumpster room at work too . 9lvl office building . Some good finds . 2KW rack mount ups . Bunch of laptops, surveyors laser and 3x reflectors, i7 24inch all in one PC, plenty of desktops . Still jealous of your dumpster diving bonanza , Dave 🤣
G'day, Norwest Business Park Management here. We demand immediate return of all above items illegally removed from the garbage room. Thank you.
After dumpster diving in 1 ton scrap, found 2 precious Schottky diodes and 2 100uf 10v caps.😁
That's not a rubbish room, it's a technological gold mine!
literally
Not even Santa Claus can compete with that dumpster...
and more years to come
amazing
I never find things in a dumpster. Where i work, there is even no dumpster, only a big blue garbage container.
Oh my god i want to move into and live in this dumpster
what happened with the 32GHz oscilloscope? (EEVblog984). Rather awkward to find something so valuable. A different league to the scrap computers.
What a shocking amount of e-waste from just one office block in just a decade of comings and goings...
I'm wondering what he does with all the things he can't use. It's illegal to take things from dumpsters here in the UK and selling it a big no-no (if you get caught) but I guess giving to charities is okay.
(if you get caught) yeah, we made money as students raiding the university computing science skips on a regular basis. Some insane stuff was found, I remember one guy finding a pile of Spark workstations, at least one was fully functional.
@@Squirrelking4395 yeah it's amazing what universities throw out. When I was there we helped throw lots of working test gear into skips but we had to smash it all up with a hammer first. They also threw BBC micros and acorn Archimedes machines from the 3rd floor into a massive skip. Monitors and all.
I keep oscillating between jealousy and a feeling of dread and relief. Jealousy over free stuff. dread of hauling it away and fixing it or maybe not fixing/finding a use for it. Relief I don't have to decide and that it's not going to clutter up my work area!
That glass box at the end would've made for a great dual-motherboard PC case. 3D print the internal brackets, a couple of fans on the top holes, stick a watercooler tube through the valve hole at the back, hard drive sleds go through that side hole, you've got yourself a brilliant little renderfarm or crypto machine. Plus with RGB everything it would look like Orac from Blake's 7.
I'm jelly of that plotter
The Dell XPS 420 at the start is a thing of beauty. The 65" LG TV, Yamaha Amp, pretty much brand new silver Lenovo AIO, Synology NAS, the Paradigm subwoofer and Toshiba laptop with 512Gb SSD are insanely good finds. I'm completely jealous but also kind of relieved I don't have access to something like this or else my house would be even more full. :p
So much stuff that could have gone on for another useful life and a lot of other stuff for spare parts.
7:09 I do love me a good gigantic A3 *_photocop_*
I scored four perfectly working microwave ovens from the dumpster, including a Panasonic Inverter microwave! I located the circuit diagram! Now if I can figure it out, I want to hack it to control the magnetron programatically. Not sure if you can help; this is kind of out of my depth electronics-wise.
Dave in the dumpster room making people jealous. 😅
Hi Dave, Just miss that expensive meter with that power cord error in the summery.
That was a fun ride through time. Guess you used the time machine pannel to do this video.
These videos make me want to move to Australia just to dumpster dive and score such a goodies 😅
nice haul
That room is a global Legend. Think of the value of kit that has been thrown out in there over this time, its insane. I used to refurb old PC for shipping out to Africa schools with LinuxMint. As thats what they love to use. Also HP Prodesks & Elitedesks fetched top dollar and very good machines with exceptional build quality. Better than Lenovo's i would say.
Those dictaphones might be popular for tape music enthusiasts.
Always like SyncMaster monitors,
looks like Dave grabbed it.
Didn't you find like full working oscilloscopes in the dumpster? I was so jealous.
I'm very jealous - I want one of those 27'' monitors - man crazy
just move near one of these companies who brag about their ESG badge
Any advice on where to look to score stuff like this ? :p
Lots of chicken dinners in this one :)
What I'm most shocked by is so many hundreds of PCs + servers dumped without securely wiping the drives first?! Are there no laws about that in Australia? Even if a company doesn't care about the residual value of the hardware, how can they not care about their commercial data and passwords?
I can't believe people can dump these things !
Simply impressive, what do we do with the planet?
I can't even understand this. I live in Canada and it is illegal to dispose of electronic waste in traditional "dumpsters". We have to have electronic waste disposal companies pick this up or drop off at ECO stations which will not allow us to rummage through their trash. I am a bit jealous
That acrylic box at ~ 27:00 kinda looks like a cloud chamber
Impresionante..
I wish that there was a company here in Texas, that throws away perfectly good electronic gear, for the taking!
I'm here to tell you that the Federal reserve needs those printers, please bring them back 😂
Our rubbish bins in the UK are just full of rubbish! We need a "Dumpster" over here please.
If paradise is half as nice …
I‘m sure you always go there early in the morning bevore brushing your teeth 😂
I also found 2 printers and Ethernet switch were put in the garbage bin. Well I don’t know whether it is legal to take them but I just put them somewhere down there so that I can take them later once I find the legal stuff out.😅
People are throwing working electronics. Can’t understand the reason behind it.
The hoarder in me hurts seeing these perfectly functional electronics being dumped. Society needs more reuse.
To be fair the electronic stuff does probably (hopefully) go to a recycling centre where they process the parts and recycle them but the fact that people give away working and sometimes nearly new stuff is insane.
oh wow, I need to upgrade my core2duo PC.
You could establish a company that gathers these gems from all the busines centers, then sells them for 1-10$ a piece and make millions in Sydney or other large city
I so which I had your dumpster room nearby.🙂
I always wonder what he does with the stuff after the video is made and uploaded
a wild clipshow appears ;)
OMG I'm totally speechless
damnn those Plasma and CRT tv's make me jealous..
I have DELL ST2220T monitor shown at time code 6.30. 20 years old and still working. Back Polaroid got bad and I replace both Polaroid and now everything working. I had to remove touch part in the process. Those are good products. What you going to do with those ?
Where is the high-priced Keysight instrument you dug out of the dumpster? LOL
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