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pinkpanda3310 · **Roadside collection helped my quark mod -** 09.24.2009, 07:51 PM

Do you guy's get roadside collection? It's this- once a year the council will pick up a couple of cubic metre's of household rubbish from each house eg fridges, tv's, etc.....

So I armed myself with a screwdriver and walked around for a couple of hours. I got a good kitty of heatsinks from pulling open old computer towers and monitors. I don't have a use for them but I grabbed some fans too.

It spoilt me for choice and gave me all sorts of ideas. Like bring on summer lol...

pinkpanda3310 · 09.24.2009, 07:52 PM

Anyway here's some pics of what i'm planning for the esc. It's only placed together for the sake of pics.

It will be quite a bit bigger, I can make it smaller but that will mean less thermal mass. The fan might be overboard but I want this thing to cruise through the coming summer. Capacitors are on order/in the mail- 560uf and 0.02ohm's (I think), 5 or 6 I'll fit. I don't like the caps being exposed like that but I'll wait till i fit them to make a decision on that.

Any suggestions or comments I'd like to hear

Bondonutz · 09.24.2009, 08:03 PM

Nice score !!!

rawfuls · 09.24.2009, 08:36 PM

Meh, if only we had that, I know quite a bit of my neighbors have lots of trash that I like

Anyways, nice collection.. and pretty colors...

jayjay283 · 09.24.2009, 08:40 PM

lol man After my sales went to crap after Y2k that was my job, pulling out heat sinks amd pcbs from computers then driving a big truck I wasn't licnesed for to recycle them. Was about 25 cents a heat sink and $1 a pcb $2 a processor. We made a good $200k a year. I saw $42k of it, nice profit margin. Fackerz

J57ltr · 09.25.2009, 12:23 AM

We have whats called heavy trash pickup I go around and pick up weedeaters and chainsaws (I fix them) and even found a good electric scooter that just needs batteries. I catch flack about it, but I went into a big dumpsterr here in out complex at work and found entire motors and conveyors made of 80/20 (think Aluminum erector sets for adults) I had more than 120 pounds of aluminum 60 pounds of brass, 20 pounds of magnesium, and 35 pounds of copper. That brought in a pretty penny

Jeff

I don't mind being called a dumpster diver.

rawfuls · 09.25.2009, 12:24 AM

Damn, wish I had these days...

09.25.2009, 12:37 AM

i know i wouldnt leave the motor wire solder connections just sitting on that heatsink

BrianG · 09.25.2009, 12:40 AM

Reminds me of my younfer days (around 12-14 years old) where I'd go to RadioShack and they would have these "junk boxes" full of stuff people brought back. I don't know why they in turn just didn't send them back, but whatever. Anyway, they'd sell these entire boxes for around $50. I'd pick one up, take it home, weed out parts/cables I could use for my own projects, and then sell the rest at garage sales. The most net profit I made in one shot was just shy of $400. Sure beat mowing lawns!

pinkpanda3310 · 09.25.2009, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by big greg

i know i wouldnt leave the motor wire solder connections just sitting on that heatsink

Yeh, as I said it's just placed together, needs more work. Further to that, I placed it in the car and had trouble positioning it due to the lack of room ( the mmm only just fits). So I will have to forfit (spelling?) the fan and mount it on end or rethink the heatsinks.

pb4ugo · 09.25.2009, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by J57ltr

I don't mind being called a dumpster diver.

When I was growing up in CA, we got chased out of every dumpster we tried to dive. In fact, my buddy got "arrested" (he was a minor, so he was just returned to his parents) for diving into Team Associated's dumpster!

Bondonutz · 09.25.2009, 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by pb4ugo

When I was growing up in CA, we got chased out of every dumpster we tried to dive. In fact, my buddy got "arrested" (he was a minor, so he was just returned to his parents) for diving into Team Associated's dumpster!

Thats a bit excessive ? They must have some dam good garbage ???

pinkpanda3310 · 09.25.2009, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Bondonutz

Thats a bit excessive ? They must have some dam good garbage ???

That's what I was thinking. Soo what did he get??

J57ltr · 09.25.2009, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by pb4ugo

When I was growing up in CA, we got chased out of every dumpster we tried to dive. In fact, my buddy got "arrested" (he was a minor, so he was just returned to his parents) for diving into Team Associated's dumpster!

That's Ca for you. Here in Texas once it's out on the curb it's like saying come take it. Most people don't care if you take stuff out, it's putting it in that is a problem here. We have to lock down our dumpster because on the weekends everybody that missed trash day will fill it up.

Another good place to get good scrap is a scrap yard. Most of the ones here will sell you anything they have mostly by weight. I almost bought a Jet 7" X 13" cut bandsaw for $40 but by the time I got back with a truck someone else bought it.

Jeff

suicideneil · 09.25.2009, 07:16 PM

I personally would have half-inched all those PC towers and see if any of them were salvagable- even basic spec PCs will find a new home with students and bored house wives etc etc.

Where I live we dont have big collections like that, but there is a local tip open on sundays for people to bring their woods/plastic/metal/ non-recyclable crap and the council take it away for free; the staff on site seperate out any interesting items like vacuum cleaners of lawn mowers and... I dont know what they do with them actually, but I can imagine....