I just wanted to say that I love the moosescrap rhyme before the video!!! And I appreciate all of the videos. It really helps to have someone that knows what they are doing to help guide us newbies in the right direction. Thanks again...
As per your statement of the arm being made of Platinum... I used to work at a company that made various parts that went into hard drives.. the wiper arm / reader arm as folks typically call them, manufactures name is (actuator arm) is, depending on the brand and model (Conner, Western Digital, Seagate,etc), all used to be machined from Magnesium (Mg)... then went to an alloy of Aluminum an Magnesium... then as the Hard drives got cheaper, so did the quest to use Magnesium of which is far more stable then Aluminum, as per temperature having any effect on the spacing of the layered fingers.. now days, it is so common to see the stamped out fingers molded in a glass filled composite plastic, and those fingers are a specific alloy of Aluminum as well. Please note, not trying to come off as a d*ckhead, rather, just the info, that the Magnesium can be set aside from the aluminum for a different scrap rate, just a thought, most folks just throw it in with their aluminum extruded rate. as many scrap yards have no way to tell if it is (Mg) or (Al).. I guess it really doesn't matter...
dude! yet again and awesome video!!!!! you don't know how much you help me and my wife to make money! thank so much! your videos always more awesome than the last
Been watching your videos for some time now and love them. You make some simple, easy to understand information even easier to understand. Keep the videos coming!
Hey thanks for watching!! I work in Portland! The aluminum wires are usually bought as low grade. Make sure you snip them though and look at the cross section in case they are coated copper. Scrap yards buy them either way as low grade wire or #2 copper if you can stip those tiny ones.
Many people think the brackets are a nickel superalloy called permalloy or MUmetal in fact magnet brackets are low carbon steel. Pure iron is one if the best flux carrying materials to use. Cold rolled low carbon steel is a trade-off for manufacturability. The brackets are plated in a nickel alloy and the unique dual polarity of the magnets allow for one direction magnetic field.
hello moose! You missed a thing. That cover that you mentioned at minute 2:40, you checked with a magnet and it sticked to it. BUT, there are 2 sheets sticked to each other and one is steel and the other aluminium. Check with a magnet in the corners. What I do is fold a corner with a pliers and then pull the other sheet appart. It comes off really easy. Have a great day! Greetings from Portugal!
sometimes they really hide it in there. On some there is a very unsuspecting flat head screw on the bottom outside casing. There is a way, sometimes its difficult to find. keep in mind that the platters dont lose and pm recovery value if they are broken.
Right, I completely agree with you! You can make more money with a good pc.This however was not a good working computer. It sustained water damage and therefore the parts have no resale value. This video is about what to do with those items that have no more resale value. How you can still make some money, and keep the landfills from over flowing. Moreover, I offer a service of complete data destruction. People pay me to destroy their harddrives and personal info. Thanks for watching!
small amount of people out there buy that part of a hard drive because of the data recovery they can do with peoples info ...yes there is also a way to still take out the date with just that single part, the same way as recovering gold profession there is a data recovery from just that part profession hehe.
data on these is very easy to corrupt. To be able to get info off of them after trying to find another case that it would fit into is very unlikely. And it also does not help that I score each one down the middle.....lol Thanks for watching!
Hello Moose Sir How are you...? hope you will be fine.. I want to ask something that I've purchased the hard drives for 2$ per kg what you think may I get profit for 15kg hard drives...?
Love your videos! Have learned so much from you-I used to live in Kittery, Maine; where are you located? Also, most wires in the PCs I have scrapped have aluminum wires, will the scrap yards usually buy them? Obviously I am new to this having just retired and found scrapping a great hobby.
well next time i'll do that. But i had SCSI drives given to me, i tried taking them apart but for some reasons, they were snapped in place without any screw inside, like they were force-snapped inside or something. Shame because 1 had like 6-7 platters inside, and really heavy.
so the logic board is just the green part of the hard drive? does boardsort take them with the gold fingers trimmed off or do you have to leave them intact? Great Videos..
Moose Scrapper Thank you for the reply. I guess my main question is, what is the logic board? is it just the green card or is it the whole hard drive itself? Again, thank you. Been watching your videos all morning.
It is just the circuit board that is screwed into the bottom of the HDD. Usually torx screws but sometimes phillips head screws. A really good resource for sorting boards is a website called boardsort.com they buy gold bearing material and have pictures of all the types of boards, descriptions, and classifications. I have found them to be REALLY helpfull.
How did you dismantle the disks from the cast aluminum frame? I used a T8 to open the drive(had to buy extra, since it was not in my kit). My T8 still did not help with the disk turntable.
Hi Moose, I really love your videos. I'm hoping you can help me with something. I came across a hard drive with 2 platters. First one comes off easy but I am having a sweaty ballsack of a time getting at the second one. Any suggestions before I start smashing stuff? Any help would be great. Thanks, Debie Su
....I am trying to imagine a scrapper named Debie having a sweaty ballsack of a time with anything..... lol. Usually to get the second one off you have to remove the neodymium magnet and the reader arm. Often times there is a sloted screw on top of the reader arm that you can unscrew it with a flat head screw driver. If that does not work send me a pic as I have yet to find a HDD that I can't break down!! (Without breaking a ball sweat)
I tried taking one apart and couldn’t get the first one off. You didn’t show how to.😮 I’ve got a set of 20 different what I call star heads and none of them fit. Suggestion.
Nice to know, boss. Gracias. Questions: what is the brand of your weigh scale and where to get it? Plus, how much is it? If you dont mind me asking. My name is bhalot, and im rookie on this Game. Thanks again in advance, boss.
Do yourself a huge favor by a really cheap drill from Harbor Freight and they're bit kit that does all locked bits and everything for $12 and save yourself a ton of time and any more viewers a ton of their time
kashewz They can be, most of the time if they are not magnetic they are Al or non magnetic stainless steel. In those cases, they are still slightly dawn to the hard drive magnet.
What do you mean by "metals." exactly? Anyway, yes, you're correct IF you have qualifications or knowledge of programming, computing or business work, selling stocks etc. However, if you buy any broken computer parts, cheap hard drives or take apart OLD, crap, or fried hard drives, you can take them apart and sell the scrap gold etc you have got. You can also do this with older mobile phones, why do you think Envirofone buy old computer parts etc. Gold is a good metal to sell. Gold4Cash?
steel might be worth more then you think last year I was getting 12 cents a pound price its down to about eight cents this year but it is a lot heavier than alunimun probably by volume you would get more for it. but you don't have have a truck probably ain't worth doing
+Working Man That doesn't make much sense. The aluminum is always going to be the better money maker, by volume or any way you dice it. Think, if you had a truck bed of aluminum and truck bed of steel, yes, the steel will be a lot heavier, but the aluminum will be worth way more...
The hard drive motors I put in with my irony aluminum which usually goes for about 10 cents a pound a my yard. Ain't worth my time to break them apart for an extra 40-50 cents a pound lol
Thanks for watching! As with all scrapping, the value of the scrap is relative to the value of your time. THings like this make nice projects for when its slow getting other scrap.
Yes and no....the logic board is probaly worth the most at around $10/lb. The cast aluminum in the casing may get you more money per HDD, and here are people on ebay who think they are creating their own super secret precious metal stockpile by buying up all the platters that have a coating that is 3 microns thick and of that is only 5% platiunum......
Moose, you have probably been asked this numerous times and probably answered it a time or two. But I missed it and figured one more time won't kill ya. Plus you can always ignore it. But I was wondering how many PCU towers would it take to end up with a decent amount of gold. Say 10 grams.
Indeed that question has been asked thousands of times. It is an important thing to know for people interested in this stuff. How much material do I really need to make it worth while? The unfortunate reality is that there is no real answer. There are so many variants in computer towers like age, type, manufacturer, etc. If you had 10 towers from the early 90's with Pentium Pro CPU's and several PCI cards in there as well, you could get your ten grams easily in about 10 computers. Nowadays, it could take 100 computers. Advancing has made technology smaller, faster, and more efficient so less PM's are used.
Moose Scrapper I kinda figured it could have a lot to do with age and brand. I've collected about 10 towers so far. I never really knew that refining gold and silver from electronics was something people could do so I haven't been saving them very long. But I have noticed that the amount of gold varies quite a bit from one computer to another. Thanks for the quick response.
Wow, I have never scrapped one of those before..... I imagine you are going to have a big electric motor, the power cord of course, and the bulk of the body will either be stainless steel or aluminum. I'll keep my eyes open and make a video if I find one. Thanks!
Some are, some are not. If you take the hard drive magnet to it, the stainless steel ones will be very slightly atracted to it. Al ones will not. Thanks!
Toxic metals in a hard drive? Please share more details. I have been doing this for years, have done lots of research, and have found there to be no danger in the dismantling on HDD's. There are a lot of myths out there, but in most cases they are just that, myths. The bulk of the HDD is aluminum. I am not burning anything, or doing any other kid of chemical breakdown. Where is the toxic metals? Thanks
I'm mainly going off of what other people have told me, there may not be anything of any life threatening danger although some of the really old disk drives have glass hard disks which can shatter into razor-sharp fragments Good idea not to powder this glass cause the electroplated metal surface turns into an air born dust. I know IBM death star HDDs and laptop drives have glass disks. other than that be careful with the rare earth magnets, they really hurt if you pinch a bit of skin in between them.
I see someone who needs to make extra money,so here is what I did years ago when I was young and was scrapping radios and TVs,I went back to school and learned electronics yeah I got my degree,You have a place to live and you know how to "you tube"so go sign up with an online college and get your degree and before you know it you will have a heated garage...WCH
+Walter Hynson I would if I did not have a disabled wife and two teenagers. I need to be home evenings to do the cooking, laundry, cleaning, helping the kids with whatever, dropping them off at their sports practices and clubs. I need to be able to drop what I am doing to go help. I have a BA in Biology, a minor in math, and I have a 40 hour a week day job that pays well over minimum wage. I have tried to go back to school and in my life it is just not possible. I can not find loans and grants that will help with bills while in class and can not afford any drop in income. With my leg broken right now, I am fighting tooth and nail to keep the family together. My wife has been hospitalized twice since january, the bills keep coming in and I am currently not able to do all that I could be doing am just getting further behind. I am open to suggestions.... I have tried many avenues, and they all have come to dead ends. Thanks for your concerns though, and yes, I think that the average person out there scrapping could benefeit from furthering their education. Anyone would. Thanks for watching!
I agree. Seems like a complete waste of time. How do you go about collecting so many busted HDD to even make enough to pay for the torx drivers he suggests buying. I think I'll stick with burglary as my secondary source of income. Pound for pound semen and plasma yield far more income than scrap aluminum, and I actually enjoy extracting my own semen, where extracting platters and logic boards looks a little bit like labor.
+Walter Hynson Reall?!?!?!?!? What is wrong with making some money on the side from other people's trash? There are millionaires out there that do this. A degree, while it can be a very good thing, does not guarantee you anything! Stop being a troll, I bet you make zero from doing that....
+Brian Dowdy It all adds up, he doesn't turn in 1 or 2 hard drives at a time, he turns in 100's plus all the other metal from other sources. You get a large amount, then cash it in, what could possibly be wrong with making money from trash with your spare time??
ROFL!! Not crazy. There really is hardly any platinum in there. You are mostly losing the value of the aluminum core!! It will save you money on coasters though which are probably more expensive!
pixelgaming460 Its not. The HDD contains gold, palladium, silver, and trace platinum. Aluminum is the metal that makes up just about the rest of the HDD. While not precious, it has weight and can be sold to scrap yards for as much if not more money that you will find in the precious metals in the rest of the unit.
+Jason Boisclair (Slowburn) no, its an element. like iron, gold steel, etc. Brass is an alloy, a mix of two metals copper and zinc. Bronze, a mix of copper and tin is also an alloy.
Here the hard drives go for 35 cents a pound and you don't even have to take a screw out. Now as for gold itself......good luck, its not even worth the effort.
eBay really man really? why don't you show the people how much gold/platinum does contain one HDD in total before ripping people's money to buy overvalued scrap on ebay
+Vladimir Nachev There is hardly any in just one. I have mentioned that in many of my videos containing hard drives. I am not selling over valued scrap on ebay. When I sell things for precious metals, I sell for the current rate as compared to other online buyers. THe platters are sold mostly to people for crafts no recovery, and if I ever did post them as for platinum recovery I would clearly state in the description how little Pt there is in there. I am not sure why you are upset.
I just wanted to say that I love the moosescrap rhyme before the video!!! And I appreciate all of the videos. It really helps to have someone that knows what they are doing to help guide us newbies in the right direction. Thanks again...
As per your statement of the arm being made of Platinum... I used to work at a company that made various parts that went into hard drives.. the wiper arm / reader arm as folks typically call them, manufactures name is (actuator arm) is, depending on the brand and model (Conner, Western Digital, Seagate,etc), all used to be machined from Magnesium (Mg)... then went to an alloy of Aluminum an Magnesium... then as the Hard drives got cheaper, so did the quest to use Magnesium of which is far more stable then Aluminum, as per temperature having any effect on the spacing of the layered fingers.. now days, it is so common to see the stamped out fingers molded in a glass filled composite plastic, and those fingers are a specific alloy of Aluminum as well. Please note, not trying to come off as a d*ckhead, rather, just the info, that the Magnesium can be set aside from the aluminum for a different scrap rate, just a thought, most folks just throw it in with their aluminum extruded rate. as many scrap yards have no way to tell if it is (Mg) or (Al).. I guess it really doesn't matter...
Sure thing! That is on my list for this weekend. Thanks for watching!
dude! yet again and awesome video!!!!! you don't know how much you help me and my wife to make money! thank so much! your videos always more awesome than the last
Been watching your videos for some time now and love them. You make some simple, easy to understand information even easier to understand. Keep the videos coming!
Moose Thank you I got a new hobby and it's all thanks to you
Hey thanks for watching!! I work in Portland! The aluminum wires are usually bought as low grade. Make sure you snip them though and look at the cross section in case they are coated copper. Scrap yards buy them either way as low grade wire or #2 copper if you can stip those tiny ones.
Many people think the brackets are a nickel superalloy called permalloy or MUmetal in fact magnet brackets are low carbon steel. Pure iron is one if the best flux carrying materials to use. Cold rolled low carbon steel is a trade-off for manufacturability. The brackets are plated in a nickel alloy and the unique dual polarity of the magnets allow for one direction magnetic field.
Do you ever keep the various screws that come out of the many things you take apart?
hello moose!
You missed a thing. That cover that you mentioned at minute 2:40, you checked with a magnet and it sticked to it. BUT, there are 2 sheets sticked to each other and one is steel and the other aluminium. Check with a magnet in the corners.
What I do is fold a corner with a pliers and then pull the other sheet appart. It comes off really easy.
Have a great day!
Greetings from Portugal!
sometimes they really hide it in there. On some there is a very unsuspecting flat head screw on the bottom outside casing. There is a way, sometimes its difficult to find. keep in mind that the platters dont lose and pm recovery value if they are broken.
i have a bunch of old harddrives... good to know i can scrap them...
Your the best Moose Scrapper! The Best!
Yes there is platinum in two places, the platter and often in the reader head....Were you looking for more specific information?
Right, I completely agree with you! You can make more money with a good pc.This however was not a good working computer. It sustained water damage and therefore the parts have no resale value. This video is about what to do with those items that have no more resale value. How you can still make some money, and keep the landfills from over flowing. Moreover, I offer a service of complete data destruction. People pay me to destroy their harddrives and personal info. Thanks for watching!
small amount of people out there buy that part of a hard drive because of the data recovery they can do with peoples info ...yes there is also a way to still take out the date with just that single part, the same way as recovering gold profession there is a data recovery from just that part profession hehe.
In some of the hard drives I have taken apart I have found a plastic box with little balls in them. do you know what those are made of? Thanks
doug johnsonj silica for removing moisture
OK thanks.
another good video, the small square and circular sometimes cube pieces of glass and or crystals?
data on these is very easy to corrupt. To be able to get info off of them after trying to find another case that it would fit into is very unlikely. And it also does not help that I score each one down the middle.....lol
Thanks for watching!
Great video
Hello Moose Sir How are you...? hope you will be fine.. I want to ask something that I've purchased the hard drives for 2$ per kg what you think may I get profit for 15kg hard drives...?
Love your videos! Have learned so much from you-I used to live in Kittery, Maine; where are you located? Also, most wires in the PCs I have scrapped have aluminum wires, will the scrap yards usually buy them? Obviously I am new to this having just retired and found scrapping a great hobby.
well next time i'll do that. But i had SCSI drives given to me, i tried taking them apart but for some reasons, they were snapped in place without any screw inside, like they were force-snapped inside or something. Shame because 1 had like 6-7 platters inside, and really heavy.
how much do i have to process to get 1g presses metal
so the logic board is just the green part of the hard drive? does boardsort take them with the gold fingers trimmed off or do you have to leave them intact? Great Videos..
There are no gold fingers on a logic board. There may be some gold plated pins, and they would not buy them if they are removed. Thanks for watching!
Moose Scrapper Thank you for the reply. I guess my main question is, what is the logic board? is it just the green card or is it the whole hard drive itself? Again, thank you. Been watching your videos all morning.
It is just the circuit board that is screwed into the bottom of the HDD. Usually torx screws but sometimes phillips head screws. A really good resource for sorting boards is a website called boardsort.com they buy gold bearing material and have pictures of all the types of boards, descriptions, and classifications. I have found them to be REALLY helpfull.
Moose Scrapper thank you, been all over their site as well. I see they pay $9.74/lb for the logic board. Now watching you scrap a keyboard.
You would need a heck of a lot, how much for one drives worth ?
2 dollars probably... you are indeed right you need fuck ton of this stuff to get any real value out of them
@@e36fanatics yeah probably best to metal detect your popular local beach 😅
expensive, good-looking coasters. So most of the money is in the logic board, right?
Moose are the screws aluminum? Looked like you had them piled up on top of the shell at the end during weighing?
The ones on this one were. Sometimes Al, sometimes non magnetic stainless.
Would you make a video on, "How to built a Sand Bath." The sand bath is used to depopulate cell phone boards and other boards.
Is that PURE GOLD wire on the arm
How did you dismantle the disks from the cast aluminum frame? I used a T8 to open the drive(had to buy extra, since it was not in my kit). My T8 still did not help with the disk turntable.
They vary from drive to drive. Usually its a little aluminum ring with 6 small torx screws T6 holding the platters down.
Yea. Was able to buy a separate T8 bit for my ratchet screwdriver. But it seems that I have to buy an another whole kit which includes a T6 :(
Hi Moose, I really love your videos. I'm hoping you can help me with something. I came across a hard drive with 2 platters. First one comes off easy but I am having a sweaty ballsack of a time getting at the second one. Any suggestions before I start smashing stuff? Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Debie Su
....I am trying to imagine a scrapper named Debie having a sweaty ballsack of a time with anything..... lol. Usually to get the second one off you have to remove the neodymium magnet and the reader arm. Often times there is a sloted screw on top of the reader arm that you can unscrew it with a flat head screw driver. If that does not work send me a pic as I have yet to find a HDD that I can't break down!! (Without breaking a ball sweat)
Right on. Thanks for the info. I'll give that a try tonight. I never said it was my sac lol
I tried taking one apart and couldn’t get the first one off. You didn’t show how to.😮 I’ve got a set of 20 different what I call star heads and none of them fit. Suggestion.
Learned a lot, thanks.
Are the Aluminum Rings extruded aluminum or are they considered cast aluminum?
Thanks!
I throw them in with the heat sinks, so extruded I guess. They are not as brittle at cast aluminum. Thanks!
Nice to know, boss. Gracias. Questions: what is the brand of your weigh scale and where to get it? Plus, how much is it? If you dont mind me asking. My name is bhalot, and im rookie on this Game. Thanks again in advance, boss.
Justin Goze Hi and thanks for watching! The scale is made by American Weigh. I got it on ebay for $19.99.
Thanks moose very informative
Do yourself a huge favor by a really cheap drill from Harbor Freight and they're bit kit that does all locked bits and everything for $12 and save yourself a ton of time and any more viewers a ton of their time
do you take the gold pins out or you just leave it as is before you sell it?
+like.sample If you take the pins out, they won't buy them...
I noticed the screws for hard drives are non-magnetic... are the screws aluminum or something? Thanks!
kashewz They can be, most of the time if they are not magnetic they are Al or non magnetic stainless steel. In those cases, they are still slightly dawn to the hard drive magnet.
Moose Scrapper Thank you, so do you save the screws and save them with the rest of the aluminum?
kashewz I save the ones I don't damage while unscrewing them.
Yes where do i sell them onnce i have broken everything down everyone says boardsort.com butthere has to be better places to sell it??
this is awesome, I recycle tons of computers and I usually just toss it in aluminum or steel but I'm gonna try the eBay thing
What do you mean by "metals." exactly? Anyway, yes, you're correct IF you have qualifications or knowledge of programming, computing or business work, selling stocks etc.
However, if you buy any broken computer parts, cheap hard drives or take apart OLD, crap, or fried hard drives, you can take them apart and sell the scrap gold etc you have got.
You can also do this with older mobile phones, why do you think Envirofone buy old computer parts etc. Gold is a good metal to sell. Gold4Cash?
What about a flat screen tv?
you might say i'm crazy, but i'm using those platters as coasters, lol!
steel might be worth more then you think last year I was getting 12 cents a pound price its down to about eight cents this year but it is a lot heavier than alunimun probably by volume you would get more for it. but you don't have have a truck probably ain't worth doing
+Working Man That doesn't make much sense. The aluminum is always going to be the better money maker, by volume or any way you dice it. Think, if you had a truck bed of aluminum and truck bed of steel, yes, the steel will be a lot heavier, but the aluminum will be worth way more...
Do I get more money from aluminum or steel?
TaCoz aluminum pays better than steel, in some places you can get the same or more than aluminum for non magnetic stainless steel.
Moose Scrapper Thanks
I got about 8 MacBook 2007 duo core hard drives. No clue what to do with them
yeah, not much resale value, scrap them out!
Moose Scrapper thanks moose
The hard drive motors I put in with my irony aluminum which usually goes for about 10 cents a pound a my yard. Ain't worth my time to break them apart for an extra 40-50 cents a pound lol
lol, they are tiny....
Moose Scrapper yep lol
Thanks for watching! As with all scrapping, the value of the scrap is relative to the value of your time. THings like this make nice projects for when its slow getting other scrap.
The screws are stainless steel Non Magnetic to keep interference dow.
EXCELLENT vid.Thx.
thanks again from holland . just scrapt 30 hard drive,s love your video,s
Sebastiaan Thie aWESOME!! Thanks for watching!
Yes and no....the logic board is probaly worth the most at around $10/lb. The cast aluminum in the casing may get you more money per HDD, and here are people on ebay who think they are creating their own super secret precious metal stockpile by buying up all the platters that have a coating that is 3 microns thick and of that is only 5% platiunum......
wouldn't it be easier to sell the disc's as scrap aluminium ?
Easier? Yes. But more profitable if sold on ebay.
Alright! as soon as I get one to scrap I'll do it! Thanks for watching!
Hlo sir I have many hard drive 100 how much gold in 1hard drive
There is no answer to that. Hard drives vary from size, to age, manufacturer, etc. Sorry
Moose, you have probably been asked this numerous times and probably answered it a time or two. But I missed it and figured one more time won't kill ya. Plus you can always ignore it. But I was wondering how many PCU towers would it take to end up with a decent amount of gold. Say 10 grams.
Indeed that question has been asked thousands of times. It is an important thing to know for people interested in this stuff. How much material do I really need to make it worth while? The unfortunate reality is that there is no real answer. There are so many variants in computer towers like age, type, manufacturer, etc. If you had 10 towers from the early 90's with Pentium Pro CPU's and several PCI cards in there as well, you could get your ten grams easily in about 10 computers. Nowadays, it could take 100 computers. Advancing has made technology smaller, faster, and more efficient so less PM's are used.
Moose Scrapper I kinda figured it could have a lot to do with age and brand. I've collected about 10 towers so far. I never really knew that refining gold and silver from electronics was something people could do so I haven't been saving them very long. But I have noticed that the amount of gold varies quite a bit from one computer to another. Thanks for the quick response.
i wonder how many hard drives he had to strip to be able to afford that scale xD
many... these things he mentions are worth fuck all unless you have shit ton of them
Can you show me how to scrap a meat slicer
Wow, I have never scrapped one of those before..... I imagine you are going to have a big electric motor, the power cord of course, and the bulk of the body will either be stainless steel or aluminum. I'll keep my eyes open and make a video if I find one. Thanks!
I have be told that the tops of the hard drives are stainless steel.
Some are, some are not. If you take the hard drive magnet to it, the stainless steel ones will be very slightly atracted to it. Al ones will not. Thanks!
hi im having trouble removing the motor from the casing.. how did you removed it?
Ron Ron Sometimes you can flip it over and use a spike or screwdriver and a hammer to tap it out. Otherwise a prybar works wonders.
thanks
BTW that is not cast aluminum...
I'm form maine also 👍
Me too! :)
Torx I mean
You didn't consider the really TOXIC metals that are in those did you.
Toxic metals in a hard drive? Please share more details. I have been doing this for years, have done lots of research, and have found there to be no danger in the dismantling on HDD's. There are a lot of myths out there, but in most cases they are just that, myths. The bulk of the HDD is aluminum. I am not burning anything, or doing any other kid of chemical breakdown. Where is the toxic metals? Thanks
I'm mainly going off of what other people have told me, there may not be anything of any life threatening danger although some of the really old disk drives have glass hard disks which can shatter into razor-sharp fragments Good idea not to powder this glass cause the electroplated metal surface turns into an air born dust. I know IBM death star HDDs and laptop drives have glass disks. other than that be careful with the rare earth magnets, they really hurt if you pinch a bit of skin in between them.
I see someone who needs to make extra money,so here is what I did years ago when I was young and was scrapping radios and TVs,I went back to school and learned electronics yeah I got my degree,You have a place to live and you know how to "you tube"so go sign up with an online college and get your degree and before you know it you will have a heated garage...WCH
+Walter Hynson I would if I did not have a disabled wife and two teenagers. I need to be home evenings to do the cooking, laundry, cleaning, helping the kids with whatever, dropping them off at their sports practices and clubs. I need to be able to drop what I am doing to go help. I have a BA in Biology, a minor in math, and I have a 40 hour a week day job that pays well over minimum wage. I have tried to go back to school and in my life it is just not possible. I can not find loans and grants that will help with bills while in class and can not afford any drop in income. With my leg broken right now, I am fighting tooth and nail to keep the family together. My wife has been hospitalized twice since january, the bills keep coming in and I am currently not able to do all that I could be doing am just getting further behind. I am open to suggestions.... I have tried many avenues, and they all have come to dead ends. Thanks for your concerns though, and yes, I think that the average person out there scrapping could benefeit from furthering their education. Anyone would. Thanks for watching!
You do not have to leave the home to attend online college....STOP making excuses and start a new way to support your family
I agree. Seems like a complete waste of time. How do you go about collecting so many busted HDD to even make enough to pay for the torx drivers he suggests buying. I think I'll stick with burglary as my secondary source of income. Pound for pound semen and plasma yield far more income than scrap aluminum, and I actually enjoy extracting my own semen, where extracting platters and logic boards looks a little bit like labor.
+Walter Hynson Reall?!?!?!?!? What is wrong with making some money on the side from other people's trash? There are millionaires out there that do this. A degree, while it can be a very good thing, does not guarantee you anything! Stop being a troll, I bet you make zero from doing that....
+Brian Dowdy It all adds up, he doesn't turn in 1 or 2 hard drives at a time, he turns in 100's plus all the other metal from other sources. You get a large amount, then cash it in, what could possibly be wrong with making money from trash with your spare time??
ROFL!! Not crazy. There really is hardly any platinum in there. You are mostly losing the value of the aluminum core!! It will save you money on coasters though which are probably more expensive!
why is aluminum precious?
pixelgaming460 Its not. The HDD contains gold, palladium, silver, and trace platinum. Aluminum is the metal that makes up just about the rest of the HDD. While not precious, it has weight and can be sold to scrap yards for as much if not more money that you will find in the precious metals in the rest of the unit.
+pixelgaming460 It used to be worth more than gold back in the 19th century...
+Jason Boisclair (Slowburn) oddly, that is true, even though it is known to be the most abundant metal in the earths crust.
Really? I thought Aluminum was an Alloy that has to be produced by man?
+Jason Boisclair (Slowburn) no, its an element. like iron, gold steel, etc. Brass is an alloy, a mix of two metals copper and zinc. Bronze, a mix of copper and tin is also an alloy.
Here the hard drives go for 35 cents a pound and you don't even have to take a screw out. Now as for gold itself......good luck, its not even worth the effort.
send a pic to bord sword?
$6.°° a pound ? That's 🐂 💩 !
THERE IS $45 TO $65 IN THE BOARDS
Time is $$$, get some good cordless tools.
where are my time ???
I don't think it's worth it
This is silly.....you can make way more with a good working computer than you can selling any of its "metals."
eBay really man really? why don't you show the people how much gold/platinum does contain one HDD in total before ripping people's money to buy overvalued scrap on ebay
+Vladimir Nachev There is hardly any in just one. I have mentioned that in many of my videos containing hard drives. I am not selling over valued scrap on ebay. When I sell things for precious metals, I sell for the current rate as compared to other online buyers. THe platters are sold mostly to people for crafts no recovery, and if I ever did post them as for platinum recovery I would clearly state in the description how little Pt there is in there. I am not sure why you are upset.