Receiving Intake and Outake

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What goes where in and after receiving

This is the first wiki page for a project by the NPAs to make Receiving more responsive to the needs/wants/likes/dislikes of other areas. The current idea is that NPAs will interview/communicate with/and/or/work in different areas around FreeGeek to learn more about what these areas should receive and how they should receive it.

Advanced Testing

Who: E-beth

• DO give them:
  • Thermal grease -Brittany 02:13, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
  • That pink squishy foam that comes from motherboard boxes -Brittany 02:13, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
  • Network devices:
    • Print servers
  • USB powered Zip drives -Brittany 02:13, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
• DON'T give them:

Audio/Visual

Who: Dirk

• DO give them:
  • DVD Players, standard and portable
  • NEWER VCRs with remote and red/white/yellow RCA inputs
  • Projectors
  • New antennas with coaxial connectors
  • VHS video cameras
  • CD players
  • Stereo systems
  • Stereo speakers
  • XM Radios
  • Record players
  • Portable tape players
  • Portable CD players
  • Car stereos
  • Amps
• DON'T give them:
  • Digital video cameras (go to lockbox)
  • Film point-and-shoot picture cameras (go to store)
  • Old antennas with non-coaxial ends
  • Computer speakers
  • Plain RCA cables
  • RF Modulators or digital converter boxes (go to store)
  • Satellite receivers or cable TV boxes (go to CBM)
  • VCRs without their remotes or red/white/yellow video inputs
  • TiVos/DVRs (go to System Eval because they have hard drives)
  • Don't give them very broken or very dirty things
  • Don't give them tangled messes of cords
  • Don't stack so tall that it can come crashing down

Printers

• Who: Jake
• DO give them: Brittany 02:13, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
  • Printers
  • Multi-function printers
  • Scanners
  • Fax Machines
  • Label Makers
  • Point of Sale machines
  • Receipt Printers
  • Adding Machines
  • Those small, special printer cords (Mini Centronix parallel cords, see here
  • Hand-held and slide scanners
  • New and used ink cartridges
  • New and used toner cartridges
  • DO keep the wall warts/transformers with the printers
  • DO keep plastic trays and accessories with the printers
  • DO keep printer ink/toner in the packaging

• DON'T give them:
  • Photocopiers (If they can't connect to a computer, we have to send them to Far West Fibers)
  • Typewriters (now go to online sales shelf for Dave)
  • Print servers (A print server is a device that allows computer workstations to interface with one or more printers that are shared on a network. These go to Network Devices/Advanced Testing)
  • Test shredders in Receiving. If they work, send them to the Store. If they don't work, the cord should be clipped and recycled, the shredder will become CBM, and the bin will become dirty plastic.
  • DON'T put printers on their sides on the shelves or on the carts (toner may leak)
  • DON'T keep manuals/CDs/packaging with printers (it's available online)

Online/local sales

• For Dave:
  • Manual/mechanical typewriters (not electric/powered). The only exception for powered typewriters is an IBM Seletrics typewriter -Brittany 02:13, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
  • SLR cameras (not point and shoot) -Brittany 02:13, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Recycling

CBM vs. Deconstruction

From a conversation with Liane during early February '09:

The deconstruction pile in the recycling area has been getting out of control, so Liane would like to work with us so that this doesn't happen. One of the problems is that many items that should go to CBM have started going to deconstruction. Here, however, is the rub: whether or not an item should go to deconstruction does not depend solely on the what the item is. Sometimes, if recycling is receiving a lot of one item and they don't have time to take all of these items apart, recycling CBMs these items. Other times, these items will be deconstructed. In other words, it will probably not be possible to develop a set list of what Recycling wants in CBM and what they want in deconstruction. So the policy that Liane suggested was, with the exception of a few types of items (and at this point is this author is not exactly sure what these items are), when in doubt, put it in CBM. The person in recycling always sorts through the CBM box when it is brought back from Receiving, so they will pull things out that they need at that particular time.--Elizabethwt 23:25, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Deconstruction items:

• External Zip Drives with older connectors (parallel ports, etc.; see here: these are easy to disassemble for their e-plastic; the newer USB Zip drives like these can go to Advanced Testing) -Brittany 02:13, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
• Laptop docks -Brittany 02:13, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
• Speakers or subwoofers with wood or cardboard casing -Brittany 02:13, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
• PCI brackets that are part metal, part ribbon cable - the store can sell some of these, but we get so many of them! They shouldn't just go into ribbon cable because they can easily be taken apart. Firewire, USB, and older can definitely be recycled, but keep your eyes out for newer ones, like SATA, e-SATA, and HDMI, which can go to the store -Brittany 02:13, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Store

Who:

• DO give them:
  • Cables:
    • HDMI
    • E-SATA
• DON'T Give them:
  • Cassette tape adaptors