Don’t get chizeld on hardware

[Kind Lampshade Maker]

Assuming saving money = making money, I might be in the right place, here :confused:
When I find an old out-dated computer on the roadside, I take it to my slaughterhouse and gut it of healthy internal organs.
These 3 cooling fans are all normed to a standard size.
The German 1 on the left was amputated from an old computer which was still running a DOS program.
The Nip 1 in the middle was built into an old Taiwanese computer of similar vintage.
The Mickey Mouse fan of unknown origin, on the right, was replaced after only a year’s service. I installed a German fan identicle to the 1 pictured, in it’s place, and it’s still going, even after leaving the computer running all day long every session. And I’m on the computer almost every day!
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[Dresden]

KL Maker,

Have you thought of going into the junk pc disposal business? You could sell the scrap metal, build PCs and give them away as a tax break, keep any useful parts, and to boot, you could actually charge companies a small fee to take these items away.

In fact where I am at in Atlanta, there are businesses which take your 'junk' away, for a fee. What I believe these people do is solicit the rich, resell or keep for themselves whatever is nice, and donate anything of value for tax purposes. Having a business like this as a non-profit would be very lucrative I suppose.

[Chain]

I thought this was a coup thread. And all I got was a dumpster diving tip.

[Kind Lampshade Maker]

KL Maker,

Have you thought of going into the junk pc disposal business? You could sell the scrap metal, build PCs and give them away as a tax break, keep any useful parts, and to boot, you could actually charge companies a small fee to take these items away.

In fact where I am at in Atlanta, there are businesses which take your 'junk' away, for a fee. What I believe these people do is solicit the rich, resell or keep for themselves whatever is nice, and donate anything of value for tax purposes. Having a business like this as a non-profit would be very lucrative I suppose.
There are profitable companies here who exchange a client company's entire computer system and replace them with brand new ones. The old computers are refurbished, when defective, and sold.
http://tinypic.com/wk7lj
Even these 3.5 inch drives were better. Back then the real thing was built in the country of copy. These things are generally unreliable and with the invention of the rewritable burner, they are almost obsolete. I last used 1 to store controversial data before giving the computer for service

[Kind Lampshade Maker]

Here is a company that repairs computer modules. They have a monopoly and charge 70 € just to proof the thing:
Eine Batterie, eine Spule, ein Verteiler, ein paar Kabel, Kerzen und ein Vergaser - so überschaubar sah es noch vor 25 Jahren unter den Motorhauben der meisten Autos aus. Doch dann begann der Siegeszug der Elektronik mit ihren Potentiometern, Platinen und Sensoren. Pannenhilfe am Straßenrand? Fehlanzeige! Für Schrauber wurden die kleinen Kästen zum technischen Super-GAU, denn mit den Fähigkeiten eines Automechanikers war hier nichts mehr auszurichten. Wir Technisch begabte Oldtimerfahrer können sich im Fall einer Panne oft selbst helfen. Eine verstopfte Düse im Vergaser, ein Masseproblem am Verteiler oder eine defekte Zündkerze sind auch ohne teure Diagnosegeräte leicht zu finden. Zur Reparatur braucht man oft nicht viel mehr als das Bordwerkzeug, ein Stück Draht oder etwas Isolierband. Für weniger begabte Klassikerfreunde und für tiefgreifende Überholungsarbeiten an Zündung und Vergaser gibt es inzwischen spezialisierte Fachbetriebe. Doch im Juni 1968 begann bei uns eine neue Epoche: Nicht etwa in einem rassigen Sportwagen, sondern im kreuzbraven Volkswagen 1600 LE (Typ 3) erschien die erste elektronisch gesteuerte Einspritzanlage, für die Großserie. Dabei stand übrigens nicht, wie sonst bei Einspritzern üblich, eine Leistungssteigerung im Vordergrund. vielmehr waren es die strengen Abgasgesetze des Exportlandes USA. die zu diesem Schritt zwangen. In Deutschland wurde die Anlage gegen Aufpreis angeboten als Alternative zu den zwei Solex-Fallstrom Vergasern des VW 1600....
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[Kind Lampshade Maker]

Don’t use this refill kit. The o-ring is so tight, that as soon as the plunger moves, too much energy gets released at once, pumping too much ink into the cartridge at too high a pressure,resulting in blowing the seals. Had I known this would have happened, I would have enlarged the ventilation opening, using a small drill bit.
You could, however, extract ink out of the original syringe, using a smaller one and then refill the cartridge with the latter without damaging the sensitive valves
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y113/Tuerkenjaeger/ink.jpg