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Friends to free geek Vancouver we got a couple of videos planned here but for
this first one we're going to be taking you guys on a tour of what it looks like
where they reduce reuse rebuild recycle and resell resell computers electronics
and like they have everything here I got like 2.4 GHz a 2.11 b Wireless I got a
Sony wman amfm TV is that a jam boox this thing was
never any good a whole bin of circuit boards woo cuz why not so let's have a
look around first off we have the Data Destruction station so this thing I
don't actually know what this is called probably just a press I don't know it
probably has a more technical name than that but oh well basically you just pull this thing down it punctures through
your hard drive like what Linus has on display listen to
this what's left of the platters inside
so this is Monitor sorting land you can see we've got oh it's a 19-in VGA and
DVI but how do we know it works so this is cool they've actually got a KVM setup
here and then they've just got a test machine here that allows them to run the
monitors for I think it is 30 minutes or
something along those lines and then they can determine are they working are
they not and decide whether they end up in the store here we have small
dismantle and circuit board preparation basically what they do here is take things apart that are small so you have
a lot of like motherboard batteries you have little motors for different things
like hard drives you have magnetic coils for for different things and all this
kind of stuff gets prepared because you're looting certain valuable things
off of it and then circuit board preparation is for stuff that goes into
here because these get recycled where they take out the gold and the platinum
and all the valuable things off the board and make some money off of it to
fund free geek this is PC dismantle land
there's a few rules no lose side padels ever anywhere and I have definitely had
this problem at our office so uh I totally get it so this is the pile of
all the compu that we've actually dismantled most of today so you guys are
going to be able to check that out in our Vlog we've got Nikki V taken apart
okay not like that we are not barbarians Nikki ve uh so basically you sort
everything into
aluminum steel
scrap copper
CPUs check that out RAM circuit
boards motherboards oh a f fence my
fence oh thank you Dennis good job
Dennis and Optical and whatever this is
drives the Bui 230 so this is component
disassembly you get stuff like routers Optical drives speakers whatever and
then take them to this table over here where you can see this one's even
partway through assembly this was our disassembly this was a tape drive which
are actually pretty expensive but it's broken so it's getting taken apart take
things out like the like the magnets and whatnot strip them down into raw
materials where we have steel and plastic over there and then we have
circuit boards up here which are taken for their copper gold or platinum or
whatever and then Steel's just taken for raw steel here they're recycling by uh
yeah straight up recycling I
guess in here we've got memory land so this is where they sort and test all of
the RAM from the disassembly station so you can see they've got this this is so
cool this like wall mounted memory testing system that they got here ddr2
and DDR3 and then they sorted into all
the different working capacities and speeds this is actually more RAM than I
have ever seen in one place anywhere in my life they have some cool stuff in
here like they've got all these FB dims so this is older server memory um I mean
check this out they've I remember these
ocz Reaper Edition now with heat pipe cooling everything is so well organized
and documented here it is so cool so there's like this awesome chart of like
here's all the different types of RAM pretty much pretty much ever the blank
spot for ddr4 I suspect they don't get a lot of scrap ddr4 uh so this is hard drive so RAM is
right behind you lus just walked you guys through that one this is hard drive
so they have these like custommade wooden hard drive holders which are
actually pretty sick they use them at all their stations they kind of
zombified their computer so they have SATA power and data coming out of the
front so they can hook up as many drives as they want this station is the wiping
station they run Derek's botin nuke and just wipe the drive so much that someone
wouldn't realistically be able to very easily get the data off of it then it
goes to blank drive so once it's done being wiped comes down here to blank
there isn't that many blank ones right now there's just a 200 gig IDE then it
goes up into in the installation station where they have the same kind of
zombified computers with cables hanging out the front and they install Ubuntu
right now they're thinking about moving to Mint I supported that move um so
maybe they'll actually do that and then they install the same thing on all these
drives so it's free open- source software which they support a lot cuz
things that are cheap are good for them um and then these are prepped and ready
to go to the system setup area we have
what Taran and John are currently working on which is actually the final setup of well almost the final setup of
one of the systems you take note of what's in it uh if it's actually
functioning properly you do stuff like a stress test you make sure that it's clean you take note of how many slots
are there for different things write down your name give the system a name
whatnot and then that's basic QC it has
one more round of QC right after that before it goes up and into the store
what what what what what what no but
seriously welcome to the thrift shop so this is where all the refurbished stuff
from out there ends up so in here you can buy
well pretty much anything that you saw out there except peac meal or whole
systems and I think they sell themselves a little bit short here I mean we have
more types of RAM and CPUs available please ask for assistance uh yeah they
do we have definitely seen it not everyone wants to buy Bare components
though and they've actually got a wide variety of different systems everything
from like Core 2 Duos that are 50 bucks or you can actually just work uh a few
hours here as a volunteer and you can take take one of these puppies home all
the way up to more expensive stuff like this Mac Pro with uh dual quad core xon
or this Intel Core i7 actually fairly capable gaming rig all for pretty
reasonable prices so that is how Luke performed so well in the last scrapyard
Wars there's some other very cool stuff in the store that's probably not for
sale like this uh vintage FedEx water
cooled computers I mean that looks like I think that's a not a TDX it's an ndx
or something like that from danger Den now defunct I mean look at this thing
look at this look at this stuff it's unbelievable there like the pesh mode in
here I like the
mode this is this predates the AOL
CD they have other stuff up here as well that aren't just normal computers
including this which is a up to 100t range 256bit AES encrypted Wireless
mechanical keyboard with cherry black switches on it which is actually pretty
sick and it's just under a 100 bucks which is badass they have like shows and
stuff so you can get the office they have the first four seasons of the
office they have some games over behind me there's individual component stuff
like Optical drives behind the desk you can buy things like motherboards and
CPUs you can pretty much get hooked up but you might have noticed the laptops
in the thrift store we never showed where those came from this is the laptop
lab this is actually one of the big money makers for free geek not to say
that it's a for-profit society I'm just saying that they have to keep the lights
on and the bills paid somehow and this
department is a big part of it so in here they've got their uh well this is
all the we know there's stuff wrong with this this is the issues laptops over
here these are the ones that are ready to build so ready to replace batteries
uh replace RAM replace drives or maybe
just be uh thrown out as E-Waste like this pretty ba looking Panasonic uh
rugged computer here this over here is testing stations where you can see
they're using you know industry standard tools like mem test for example to make
sure that everything's going hunky dory over here and then once it's all done in
this room check this out my friends this
over here is actually an incoming pile
but this over here is the stacks on stacks on stacks on stacks of finished
laptop computers that are ready to go out to the store or to people who need
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okay so that's pretty much it for today we're going to have a vlog coming up
showing everyone working at all the stations here at free geek and uh for
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