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| − | ***In one hour of uninterrupted work with the corded power drill I | + | ***In one hour of uninterrupted work with the corded power drill I disassembled 21 large 5.25 inch aluminum drives. Smaller drives have low grade boards and more annoying screws. (In John's opinion smaller drives may not be worth the effort.) |
| − | disassembled 21 large 5.25 inch aluminum drives. Smaller drives have low | ||
| − | grade boards and more annoying screws. (In John's opinion smaller drives may not be worth the effort.) | ||
this yielded: | this yielded: | ||
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My focus was on separating motors and midgrade circuit boards, I let | My focus was on separating motors and midgrade circuit boards, I let | ||
everything else that came off of the drive pile up and go into a cbm, | everything else that came off of the drive pile up and go into a cbm, | ||
| − | unless it happened to be clean plastic. | + | unless it happened to be clean plastic. |
===Battery Sorting and Boxing=== | ===Battery Sorting and Boxing=== | ||
Revision as of 17:06, 28 September 2011
Guide for setting up and teaching warehouse tasks.
Standard Volunteer Tasks
Template
- Bins Required:
- name
- Size:
- Contents:
- QC into:
- name
- Size:
- Contents:
- QC into:
- name
- Special tools:
- How to Teach:
- Special Notes:
Systems at the Bench
Basic System Deconstruction is a few years old.
Keyboards
- Hard Plastic
- Steel (remove rods from longer keys, screws, plates)
- Filmy plastic with printed silver circuitry
- Rubbery sheet (jellyfish-like)
- Circuit boards
- Wires/cables
Network Devices
- Plastic (remove all LEDs, wires, switches, etc)
- Steel (screws, etc)
- Circuit boards
- Wires/cables
- Misc (CBM, etc)
Daughter Cards
- Cards
- Steel (screws, faceplates)
- Aluminum (heat sinks)
- Fans
- Batteries (occasional button batteries)
Floppy Drives (aluminum chassis only)
- Aluminum
- Steel (covers, screws, etc)
- Circuit boards (controller card)
- Misc (motors, plastic/steel mix, cable/wire)
Heat Sink Fan Combos (ZIF only)
- Fans
- Aluminum (heat sinks)
- Wires
- Steel (screws, clips, brackets)
Hard Drives
- Bins Required:
- Chassis
- Size: medium -They get heavy fast
- Contents: All parts of the hard drive except for the circuit board,
- QC into: HD chassis gaylord
- Circuit Boards
- Size: medium or Small
- QC into: Category 3 circuit board barrel
- Steel - screws and loose steel brackets
- Size: Small
- QC into: Schnitzer steel bin.
- Trash
- Size: Trash Cans
- Contents: loose foam pads and rubber covers
- QC into: Garbage dumpster
- Chassis
- Special tools:
- Phillips 00 and Torx 4 for laptop size drives.
- How to Teach:
- Special Notes:
- We should have the tools required to remove the boards from laptop drives. In the past we have instructed volunteers to pry off the thing circuit boards so that they rip neatly around the screws.
- Alternate method
- Magnet Harvesting:
Advanced volunteer tasks
Aluminum Drives
- Bins Required:
- Motors
- Contents: motors with or without integrated circuit boards.
- QC into: Motors barrel
- Mid-grade Circuit Boards
- Steel
- Cast Aluminum
- Contents: Clean Aluminum chassis with no steel, brass or other bits.
- QC into: Clean Cast Aluminum Barrel
- CBM
- Contents: Everything else including: wires, low grade circuit boards steel that did not come off pure.
- Motors
- Special tools:
- Power drill if appropriate
- Phillips bit #2 and occasionally #1
- How to Teach:
- Stress that with the power drill it is easy to strip screws and that striped screws make aluminum unclean.
- Special Notes:
- John's Experiment
- In one hour of uninterrupted work with the corded power drill I disassembled 21 large 5.25 inch aluminum drives. Smaller drives have low grade boards and more annoying screws. (In John's opinion smaller drives may not be worth the effort.)
- John's Experiment
this yielded:
14 lbs of cast aluminum
18 lbs of motors
1.5 lbs of midgrade circuit boards.
1 lb of junk plastic
unknown quantity of steel that has the aproximate value of CBM
unknown quantity of cbm (steel plastic and wire)
notes: I stripped 2 screws which i was able to remove quickly. I set aside 2 drives that looked like they would require excessive effort. I'll cbm them or clean them enough for dirty aluminum. My focus was on separating motors and midgrade circuit boards, I let everything else that came off of the drive pile up and go into a cbm, unless it happened to be clean plastic.
Battery Sorting and Boxing
- See Sorted Batteries
- Ask John or Liane for more details
Overhead Projectors
Power Supplies
Wood Bearing Material (speakers)
Motherboards
- See Motherboard Recycling.
- See also Clean Circuitboards