Ok ladies and germs,
Where do you get your excess in parts? I'm not talking about the new SLI vid card, or your 500GB drives. I want to know where those extra drive cages, panels, cases, power supplies and the like come from.
I'll start off.
In the network at home, I've put some nifty old toys to work, one piece in particular, my MBR-7 (7 CD Changer) came from a high school re-fit. I ended up working at my old high school, during this re-fit and a lot of stuff was slated to go to the trash. I ended up with nt only the changer, but their first CD burner (A phillips, the size of a desktop case), 7 AT cases, 5 ATX cases, and loads of other goodies.
After that job ended, I hooked up with a small firm that did training. The president loved t buy new equipment and was very wasteful. I always asked, "What d you want me to do with the old stuff." His response was always, "Junk it." These 'junk' machines were PIII - Celeron 400's and we upgraded to PIII - 933's. Silly, no?
Currently, I work for a place that finds it cheaper to junk older machines than to fix them. If it's out of warranty, and the hard drive goes, we junk it.
Additionally, as of late, I've been posting to places like Craigslist and Freecycle
When I'm done with the machines, breaking them down, I take what I need or want and recycle the rest (plastic bezels in one bin, metal in another.)
Anyone else have any neat stories, or ideas where people in their lcal area can obtain free, ld computer junk?