I've often thought about creating some sort of wall hanging art, or sculpture.
Of coarse, only old geeks would recognize the parts, (is that a 56k modem?).
Of coarse, only old geeks would recognize the parts, (is that a 56k modem?).
I have a ton of that stored in rusty old cans, gallons and quarts. A guy I know said mix it all up and paint a fence or wall with it or something (he's a house painter). I guess some folks would have use for it, business even. Don't know what a recycling outfit would do with it all.A consortium of the municipalities in the area put on collection days monthly that are held in different locations. The 21st of this month is the next one and as we're contemplating moving, I intend to clear out a ton of stuff. I'm hopeful we can fit it in one car as we have a lot of paint to get rid of too.
Depending on where one lives it can be free or for most, $10 per car full. Non-residents of the communities that are participating pay $50.
I'm ecstatic that they'll take paint in its liquid state. Most want it dried up.
Myself, I would rip out the magnets from the HDs. I make custom refrigerator magnets from those, they are super strong.I've got 15 spinners stacked up in the closet in the computer room that I will never have any use for. Pulls from systems that I upgraded, etc. The largest I think is 80GB. Four are 10K raptors. Motherboards, memory, cases, two CRT televisions. The list goes on...
Probably, I'd have to look. Are those valuable?what kind of ram stick :awe:
do you have 144pin PC133 133MHz SDRAM SO-DIMM?
Probably not.what kind of ram stick :awe:
do you have 144pin PC133 133MHz SDRAM SO-DIMM?
Rusty cans will eventually start leaking. Ask me how I know.I have a ton of that stored in rusty old cans, gallons and quarts.
I remember owning a really good 56k ISA-slot modem.I've often thought about creating some sort of wall hanging art, or sculpture.
Of coarse, only old geeks would recognize the parts, (is that a 56k modem?).
Probably, I'd have to look. Are those valuable?
In the recycle bin (except CRT TV's I think). My work lets employees dump electronics/styrofoam and cardboard also.
Goodwill will take electronics for recycling (at least they do in the South Bay). They take almost everything (they charge for mattresses and don't take some baby stuff like child car seats), I just dump junk on them, they don't care. I had a giant over the range microwave, asked if they would take it, said sure so I dumped it in the box, filled the whole thing. Guy looked a bit dumbfounded. heh.
Rusty cans will eventually start leaking. Ask me how I know.
Here's what happened in my case.How do you know?
yeah don't really need it, was just going to find a 512MB to stick it into my printer just for the hell of it
I figure any plastic with a triangle on it is "recyclable." I throw that in the non-paper 1/2 of my recycling bin and figure whoever deals with that stuff knows what to do with [2], [4], etc.Then when they get full I could bring to recycler to sort further. Not sure if any of the metal recyclers will take plastics though, but might be able to actually put those in the residential recycling bin. There's so many different grades though not sure how that would work.
Edit: I just hit the link and they want you to register for the event online. Seems weird! They actually want you to specify a particular 1/2 hour window.
The hours for ours today was from 8 to 2. We typically go out to breakfast on Saturday's so we combined the trips and decided to hit the recycling thing first. We got there about 8:10. They had signs by the road marked as entrance and exit with two people manning each. Once inside, cars were lined up in two rows with people directing traffic, checking information, taking or filling out paperwork and taking money. We never had to get out of the car. The first stop was household chemicals, the second was paint and the third was electronics. We pulled up to each stop and the pertinent materials were removed.Edit: I just hit the link and they want you to register for the event online. Seems weird! They actually want you to specify a particular 1/2 hour window.
I got a large postcard a couple of days ago about a once off recycling day around here, this is rare as hell, I don't remember getting such a notice for over 10 years. All kinds of stuff, hazardous, electronics, just a vast plethora of stuff mentioned.
I fear/expect to have nowhere near as smooth an experience come that Sunday, which is exactly 4 weeks from today. Reasons are this:The hours for ours today was from 8 to 2. We typically go out to breakfast on Saturday's so we combined the trips and decided to hit the recycling thing first. We got there about 8:10. They had signs by the road marked as entrance and exit with two people manning each. Once inside, cars were lined up in two rows with people directing traffic, checking information, taking or filling out paperwork and taking money. We never had to get out of the car. The first stop was household chemicals, the second was paint and the third was electronics. We pulled up to each stop and the pertinent materials were removed.
The whole thing from start to finish took 8 minutes. They run a tight ship and move people through at a good clip. There were probably 50 people at the very least running the operation. There were too many warm bodies to count as the thing was set up in an enormous school parking lot.