EVERYTHING HAS A RE-USE: COMPUTERS
September 24th 2009 21:05
Before you cast off that expensive, yet obsolete computer,
you used to love and paid dearly for, consider it's
re-use value. Yeah sure, you can take it to the recycle
place which will charge you for disposal. Smash the hell
out of it if you need to vent some inner electronic rage or:
You could certainly try to find a worthy charity who would
gladly take the old electronic S.O.B., who would perhaps
give it to so-called "third world" students. Not a bad
idea if you could find a charity interested in taking in
the make and model of your old machine, or:
You can think creatively about a new use in your own
home for the piece of electronic #$%&%* you shelled
out thousands for, just five years ago.
If you can turn a screwdriver, consider taking the thing
apart and harvesting the parts for future use--hard drives,
power cords all that good stuff
But have you ever consider the "little parts", like the expensive
screws, nuts and bolts that hold the thing together. Nice stuff
there which you could organize and store for future use around
your abode.
Yeah, you would have to have some sort of logical organizational
system where you could retrieve, say a nice highly machined
brass screw for future use in another repair project.
Or, how about this? If you are artistic, think of the planters,
aquariums or sculptures you can create from old TV style
computer screens.
Of course, you have to be carefully when you open the back of the
computers---don't crack open capacitors, diodes, resistors, screens
or any questionable electronic items.
Okay, say you do decide you're going to jump into the guts of your old
computer to harvest what could be of future use. Do it!
Yes, you'll be left with a lot of unusable stuff, but that junk can then
go to your local recycle facility. Remember, you paid good bucks
for your old, but then wicked state-of-the-art machine. The parts
are there to be used again, in a slightly more different form.
What's your creative ideas for new uses for old, tired computers?
you used to love and paid dearly for, consider it's
re-use value. Yeah sure, you can take it to the recycle
place which will charge you for disposal. Smash the hell
out of it if you need to vent some inner electronic rage or:
You could certainly try to find a worthy charity who would
gladly take the old electronic S.O.B., who would perhaps
give it to so-called "third world" students. Not a bad
idea if you could find a charity interested in taking in
the make and model of your old machine, or:
You can think creatively about a new use in your own
home for the piece of electronic #$%&%* you shelled
out thousands for, just five years ago.
If you can turn a screwdriver, consider taking the thing
apart and harvesting the parts for future use--hard drives,
power cords all that good stuff
But have you ever consider the "little parts", like the expensive
screws, nuts and bolts that hold the thing together. Nice stuff
there which you could organize and store for future use around
your abode.
Yeah, you would have to have some sort of logical organizational
system where you could retrieve, say a nice highly machined
brass screw for future use in another repair project.
Or, how about this? If you are artistic, think of the planters,
aquariums or sculptures you can create from old TV style
computer screens.
Of course, you have to be carefully when you open the back of the
computers---don't crack open capacitors, diodes, resistors, screens
or any questionable electronic items.
Okay, say you do decide you're going to jump into the guts of your old
Yes, you'll be left with a lot of unusable stuff, but that junk can then
go to your local recycle facility. Remember, you paid good bucks
for your old, but then wicked state-of-the-art machine. The parts
are there to be used again, in a slightly more different form.
What's your creative ideas for new uses for old, tired computers?
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