one of the most helpful but least possessed and least used things for
people building computers is a magnetic Parts tray one of the most abundant
things in the computer's world are dead hard drives this is actually an equation
that we can
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description we build computers all the time that's kind of like literally our
job one of the downsides to this is having a huge amount of Hardware boxes
for Hardware that are missing screws because someone was careless and didn't
keep track of them properly okay to be fair in most cases that was probably me
because of that the three sides of my personality are all in unanimous favor
of lonus who grabbed a load of magnet Parts trays in the past he even featured
them in a handy Tech under 100 episode 3 which you can check out up here these
were great but he bought them when we worked in a house and had a company of
about six people now we work in a big office and employ like 13 people I
actually have no idea does that make me a bad manager probably that's fair what
it doesn't do is ruin my passion for honestly just screwing around with
hardware and today's victim was well you guessed it the hard drive and what will
my dead hard drive sacrificial body be used for in the absence of its ability
to hold memories well we're going to tear the thing apart carefully actually
and then we're going to extract some neodymium magnets to make our own Parts
trays with well to be honest some tape
and any random object we can actually get our hands on you're going to need a
small torque screwdriver the size of which will be determined by the hard
drive that you have I recommend getting some form of Kit because just scrapping
four different hard drives I ran into two different sizes of screws I would
also recommend that you get a flathead screwdriver or a pry bar to pry the top
off and now that that's out of the way here we go unscrew all the visible
screws on the top and then try to find the sneaky decky screws they decided to
hind under stickers or the drive information sheet once you're done
removing all of these pry the top of the freaking hard drive off now that you're
on the inside you can start by removing the first magnetic plate you're going to
have to pry it off it's very unlikely that there will be any screws attached
to this next up you can move on to the actuator or the platters depending on
whichever's easiest for you this can be a little frustrating as there's tons of
little screws and different things overlapping each other but it won't take
all that long and once you're done removing all of that it's time to work
out the bottom magnet which should just be a couple screws and some prying away
from Freedom now for today's video we're going to be using the magnets so we're
definitely going to keep those but if you have a lot of hard drives especially
you should consider selling their individual components for scrap
especially the metals inside of the hard drive and the PCB that's on the bottom
of the drive they can all be sold not for a ton of money mind you but if you
have a lot of drives with a little bit of time you can turn a profit check out
boardsort.com if you're interested in that alas our magnets have been
retrieved and we're ready to start making our magnetic Parts trays the more
magnets you get the larger the surface area you can effectively use use as a
magnetics Parts tray also naturally the
creation of these parts trays will come down to your creativity but some of my
favorite ones that I made in the office were the stealth which is a hard drive
that is actually a magnetic part Str you just take all the guts out put the
magnets on the bottom of the lid tape them on and then screw everything back
together so it looks like a hard drive I know I'm kind of weird don't worry about
it another one was the more practical repurposed box which originally had a
space pen in it I just tap the magnets to the bottom of the outside of the box
this one has the added practicality of being able to be magnetically stuck to
other metals like a normal magnetic Parts tray and last but not least is
taking a piece of cardboard drawing out a grid with like a Sharpie or something
and then taping the magnets in a grid formation in order to create a magnetic
sorting pad sick is this remotely useful
at all I think so but what do I know you
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