all right so you guys pretty much know how this works at this point it is time
again for scrapyard Wars but we're throwing a wrench into the rules once
more we're going to have a bigger budget $900 per team and because that gives us
enough money to build something that not only performs well but also looks good
we've brought in BS mods professional computer modders extraordinaire to lend
both me and Luca hand so a Welcome to our guests Bob and Rod and without
further Ado let's get started
so here we go guys the first thing we're going to throw at you is that you guys
have to decide who gets to pick your
teammate you guys are team captains some darts darts darts let's do it go for it
you guys want practice throws or is it just like you got do cold got do cold try not
to hit like come close please oh pretty
good get on in there Ron so we doing closest distance yeah or like points
closest distance
no no way total hack oh wow you guys are
good I mean all right so that makes it
awkward though you have to be the one to choose I have to be the one to choose I
got to go with the tall guy oh this
guy oh yeah I mean I'm trying not to
look disappointed right now no no I yeah
I like I like our team because we've got clearly the Superior Hardware guy oh oh
brutal and clearly the superior modern it's like clearly Superior at finding
crack houses and and sniffing pain
right and you know what and you know what there is there is a point there are
points for creativity Kracken paint might not be a
bad recipe we might even have to buy the paint like we can probably get like you
know a two for one deal yeah get like a
a case and a can of paint with it yeah
and the crack pipe inside it's like a Kinder
Surprise all right so let's get you guys laved up and uh let's go good luck May
the best team win yeah all
right no I didn't want to touch you hanging yeah don't hanging bro I'm not
I'm not feeling good about this guy he didn't pick me all right let's go so
here's the thing like if we're going to
do something crazy like basically do a scratch build
mhm now's the time to decide that uh I think if we just get a good case we can
take a case and we can chop it up any way we want we can right not chop it up
what if we went almost scratch build like where we go okay uh motherboard uh
back plate and IO right we could yeah I
mean if we found a case where we just gutted it and just used the parts we
needed and then created a scratch Builder on that that's
doable let's put that on ice for
now we have a pretty big budget sort of
M so what we need to think about is how
hardcore we want to go after performance and how much attention we want to focus
on looks cuz it's about a 50/50 grade
why don't we brainstorm what we want the system to be a little bit more and then
I'll make you come up with a price maybe we're doing this all wrong how do you
start a mod do you decide the theme first it's all different when we were
having our meeting this morning I was sitting over here and I saw these
right I was thinking like maybe mad Maxi
like it's some crazy like headpiece on it and like Mad Max would be inexpensive
yeah exactly we just get like trash yeah
Mad Mad Max I want to do that okay so I'm super down like that yeah Mad Max
inspired okay I don't think I got the best partner out of the two available
but I think I got the one that's best suited to my strs and more importantly
my weaknesses uh Bob strength is pure
working on the case uh whereas I don't
really need Rod's talents when it comes to the PC Hardware side of things so I
feel really good about the team that I ended up with however much shorter we
may be than the other team okay so there's no pre-planning I have no idea
so I was hoping you would have an idea but why don't we come up with a theme
then why don't we do that first yeah uh
I've got lonus and he's definitely awesome he definitely knows his stuff
he's got a lot of tricks up his sleeve I think so we should come out pretty good
I think we're going to win it um we
could do like a victory theme
Victory I mean how could the judges not choose a victory theme to
win jeez no so I'm checking out stuff on
Craigslist Canadian dollar is garbage so
a lot of the stuff is actually super freaking expensive um this budget's not
even looking like it's going to go that far um and you're checking out I'm going
to check out there's a couple little for sale apps on Android our biggest
challenge today was definitely Hardware availability was uh looking uh
processors motherboards and video cards uh there's just not a lot out there for
sale something to check out is uh I
wonder if there's any small computer shops over the Border not to bring up
this again lus always see seems to find some sort of crack shop or random
woodworking shop where a guy walks out with a perfect set of computer
components that are working very well for almost nothing so who knows I have
never seen the Craigslist listings or any other listings for any of the things
he's ever found anywhere so yeah he might find
something I am a little worried right
now this thing's kind of an interesting start that's pretty crazy looking
actually it's all metal construction apart from the front I like the looks of
it I could see this as a good case from modding this guy wants 20 bucks you see
how these handles are yeah we could play off those handles for a paint theme um I
could stripe those handles like like do like a RAC and stripe like come down and
then go back and then or or even come all the way down Loop around like come
down go over and then back up okay back
to my victory idea what if we did a trophy case in the FR that almost has a
trophy look too doesn't it yeah it does it has kind of
a it kind of does cuz I almost think
like it's there's so many chickens and so many eggs right now like we can't
decide how much to spend on The Mod until we know how much the hardware
costs we don't know how much we have to spend on the hardware until we find a case we can't have a case until we kind
of know what the mod hi is this Oscar I am calling about your Craigslist posting
for the silver mid tower computer case um okay can I come there right now make
sure it has both side panels um do you have both side panels for it wonderful
yep sounds good okay I'll see you
shortly okay bye okay so roll down there let's roll
down there um you know what um so we're going to need Hardware then after that
so is there I mean should we you know what I'm going to a quick scan for some
Hardware just to see if there's anything on the way or your 100 100% correct um I
think what we should do is um I'm just
going to start finding a bunch of a
bunch of hardware and just sending out feelers okay cuz a lot of the time it's
going to come down to you know who gets back to you or doesn't I am sort of
worried about well they're going to run into the same issue unless they got some
sneaky way to get it you know if this just comes down to q6600 again because
the dollar is so screwed up that I think you're I think on that case we'd better
off you know even if we had to totally hack one of those small form factors
like that one of 2400 I still think you could do where did the 2400 it was like
300 bucks here
um that's a 2400 that's 350 there's one for 290 though I thought try try this HP
one no this is a new one I was trying to look at no there was an HP that had a
2500 in it that was a it was a on K
2500 in I thought it was
290 we found another system with an i7
quad 2.8 GHz which is probably a uh i7
860 uh we don't know what the power supply is it has 500 GB hard drive so
whatever we'll have to replace that 8 GB of RAM which is good a graphics card so
probably going to have to replace that uh but yeah it's 285 bucks so not a
super terrible price for CP memory cuz memory is really expensive it is and
it's standard form factor so the chassis is workable what kind of budget do you
think we need for aesthetic you know I think with the Mad
Max them it can be pretty minimal maybe like a 100 bucks we can uh I think get
all the parts we need with a couple kinds of paint and we can hit like
thrift stores and junkyards and just really scrape by so at 100
bucks that brings us down to $ 800 with a graphics card at around $300 that
brings us to 500 right that's actually a
fair amount for the rest of the rig yeah well we could We're not gonna be able to
go anywhere to pick up anything today probably so we could message people
today right um we could message the system guy we're talking about we can
message the power supply that we've already located and we can message like
each team for graphics card just make sure that we have a lead mhm get a bunch
of leads and then call these guys tomorrow here's an i5 750 for 70 bucks
um you know what I should probably get the old spreadsheet going here that's
not even that good of a deal though I'm not that stoked on that I
mean look at this guy this guy wants 100 bucks for a Phenom
2x6 holy crap this is this is by far the
slimmest the Pickins yeah like that's
there's hardly anything let's try different keywords
all about the keywords let's try cor I5 as a keyword see what we what we pick up
oh I don't want laptops
2500k yep we saw this one oh um we can
find out what kind of contact info he has though hi I was wondering if you
guys had any like um for one like broken
uh computer cases that you guys were thinking of getting rid of pretty cheap
and for two uh components around the i7
860 series or newer graphics cards like
780s or 290s uh box it I mean I can I have stuff
here that we're just have to take a drive out to to wipe something to go to
recycling so you know I do have boxes here for sure um and the way'll process
just have to know and for the video cards not that new definitely not okay
that would be cool um what kind of like power supplies in the 500 watt option do
you have not too sure I have to see what's in some of these machines um but
some of these machines may have some I just have to take a look right okay so
for that case you guys we're going to pitch could we pick that up for free
or uh we taking the power SP I have to charge for it but if it's just a box
then um yeah and even if it was just with the power spot be like 10 bucks if
not kind of thing okay sweet um that would be awesome cool we can we can come
pick it up like today if that's easy for you um tomorrow would be better actually
sure that work how many how many you need um two two two would be great two
okay no problem man just
okay so we just contacted like a computer refurbishing company and we're
going to get two free chassis for free worst case scenario the free chassis's
uh steel it's metal of Steel exactly yeah yeah if we just take the side
panels off we've got a big section of flat metal so we can hack some rope
lights if we can go could we get a flame I think the
theme so far is pretty cool Mad Max is something that I I very much enjoy in
terms of aesthetic style yeah that would be like a torch flame of some just build
our own tiki torch yeah it's just lamp
oil and a leg Yeah like if we could get some fire that would stopped like if you
had a with a regular front hard drive cage and you block it off and then vent
it so it's just its own yeah outward
vented you could have a flame right in the front of the that would be super
cool okay so we want to use fire we have two free cases which we have mother
boards that we just tear apart which is great um it won't take anything to build a
tiki torch Ian no we can make it out of
anything man yeah I can't there's nothing nothing what is going on here
okay you know what let's get in the car let's get in
the car let's go look at our case and let's go from there maybe we'll
hit some pawn shop I'm going to get you on the Google while we drive do you get
carick no okay awesome then I'll get you on the Google while we're driving and uh
maybe you can find us some pawn shops and stuff and we'll see what we can find
I'm going to be completely honest with you though at this stage in the
competition I've never been this worried about straight up not being able to find
hardware no way seriously it's um it is
really have you is it because you're not cheating this time or is it because
you're no it's um haha and no I I am just deeply
worried about not only the pricing cuz I can deal with pricing I can lowball
pricing there's just nothing available there's just nothing so we're going to
have to I mean your idea of knocking on doors might not be that far door to door
man door to door even here you never know look at all these businesses this
is a sea of opportunity right here yep
33 minutes okay awesome so I'll take that if you don't
mind and then um you're on pawn shop
Coquitlam Duty okay do you have any desktop style I wondered um do you have
any PCs computers desktop computers used
desktop PCS no we don't we only have laptop desktop no unfortunately no we
don't we don't have any no we don't sir none huh do you got an old one laying
around you just want to get rid of no I
don't all right all right thank you
sir table eggs of some coer yeah that's
probably a $20 new item
but they're a little bit harder to find they're not as commonly used that's like
a sink uh me it's about the width of a
chassis you couldn't cut it down well if you cut it down I think well I guess you
probably could it's plastic but there's just some great yeah a dollar some
meshing looks tubing 7 ft of
it brand new it's only4
bucks it's a set ft of tubing that would do our
PCIe and our eight pin and the only thing we need some probably some bigger
stuff for 24 the other Tube dude that
might finish our wiring it it's not metal but the odds of getting metal
that's like a good patina is probably pretty
slim this is the burnby one there's like a Vancouver one which might be a lot
better so uh we just uh pulled out our first uh Habitat Humanity ReStore and uh
picked up some uh sleeving options we got some uh plastic we can use to sleeve
our 24 pin 8 Pin PCIe and SATA and uh we
also got this really cool uh cast iron grate that we may use for the top um
vents for the fans or something to do with our awesome fire idea so uh now
we're off to the next location and see what else we can find for modding
supplies sure oh yeah that works perfectly so
we're here at another uh Habitat for Humanity location trying to figure out
lights for the front of the case G to go
like that maybe that works though that
goes right in what are those stain oh in
powder form powder stains man you can make rust with powder form
stains oh look at this red look at this brown
it says green but if we sprinkle it on something if you mix these two
together that might work it works
that allow us to rust anything are they a dollar each purple's
three rocks okay it's good idea too DN
expensive we might use since we're going for this Mad Max theme the burlap got
this super rustic look already it's got a patina and so we might be able to use
it for something like a motherboard skirt uh accents on an
SSD um who knows but it's got the right
patina so I think it would work good with what we're going with so we got two
sheets of burlap which R thinks he's going to be able to do some cool stuff
with hopefully I think it looks good it'll fit the theme regardless and then
got two hinges these hinges will work perfect if we want to make our case door
open say like a Case laabs Case yeah now they have two more habitat for Habitat
for Humanity locations so we're going to try to check those out see what we can do there we started actually going to
the shops today I did start worrying a little bit and that worry did increase
from shop shop that we went to to shop that we went to it reinforced that the
Canadian dollar sucks because things that should have been like free or like
a dollar were $15 $20 so we went to our
next location we don't have a ton of time in terms of getting back to the
office and uh apparently our next location has moved
so yeah I'm not 100% sure of going to the next location but Rod is currently
outside checking out some literally garbage uh which we might be able to
take for free considering it's garbage
uh but yeah I think that was a no not so
much not so much yeah wire's been like
copper stripped out of it by some crack addicts or something yeah we do have a
few more options checking out actually literal Tech stores or uh thrift stores
that aren't targeted at being home hardware stuff could actually help us in
terms of like the headpiece and stuff on the front and hitting some scrapyards
and that place that we're going to get some free things from might help us in
terms of other like random pieces of metal and stuff that we want to put on
the case huge fan oh thank you I was actually at the uh the Meetup and I got
your signature too oh really don't remember you but that's awesome hey you
got lube too yeah nice all right so
let's have uh let's have a quick look at this bad boy
here yes it is I didn't even recognize
the model all right so got spot for 100
so you can work with that right Bob so top mount power supply yeah yeah we can
uh we'll figure something out there we
might go like a big window like we might go right right out to the edges we can
work with those though so these look like the original holes was this a was
this a glass an acrylic window same thing probably you just cut that out to
put the mesh in so so we pull this out
we put it in the back we don't worry about the two fans
necessarily and um so there's this has
uh ventilation up top so um and then if
cooling is a nonissue I think uh and you were 100% right this thing is easy to
take off two screws so if we wanted to just have the spoiler this one still has
the finishing pieces on it whereas this one doesn't anyway I could do a I could
do a stripe going up this like this and then come and then so just have it come
around and then come right right towards the front and then figure out how to
incorporate it in the front so just make it like a really sporty kind of a look I
like it what do you think I yeah I think
I mean go for it for the price and everything I mean I think it's totally aable so all
right like I just I just asked you that's so funny and then here we hit it
and it's like boom he just he he knew exactly who he was looking at yep but
it's awesome aord in accordance with the rules I did not leverage in any way who
I was no we paid the amount we didn't try to talk them down we just NOP this
is great see I have a witness for how
how well it is that I adhere to the
rules of scrapyard Wars I have a witness this time there won't be any accusations
of lonus cheating when in fact he did not no cheating
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both a 290 and a 780 SSD we messaged two
two power supply we've messaged two like four or five okay so the computer right
now is actually looking pretty okay cuz the system had a case with it so I think
we should look up stuff for the Flames oil and a wick right and a wick
right that's simple cuz we can make that for like a dollar okay and it will work
but like we could do cool like if there's a face on the front or something
we could have the eyes just kind of on fire with left boil and a wick
right two two like Wicks coming out of
like one reservoir yeah the other thing that's like kind of a crazy setup but I
think it can be modified to work is a weed burner weed burner yeah like this
no it's like a you hook it to like a 5 gon propane tank and then you oh shoots
out it but like we could do cool like if there's a face on the front or something
we could have the eyes just kind of on fire with lamp oil in a wig do you have
any desktop style computers no we don't
really take them anymore no the best place a little bit you have to be a good
Challenger I give you the you
from we can go anywhere we can go yeah we can go anywhere you know that Coan
and Perry no sorry coast Meridian oh coast Meridian coast Meridian and Perry
and Perry Oh yes okay the left side is
at gas station at right side is a building huge sign says competed on
computer by himself oh his name is
Tony and tell him Nasser send you ner po
poor you over there you're trying to remember all this stuff it's like yeah
you know Westwood and you're kind of you're sitting there I'm looking at you
going please I hope you do I don't I don't have a clue yeah Westwood's just
an area I mean once people give you a cross street I don't understand why they
feel the need to tell you what you know County it's in oh I know like he started
he he was he was getting a little too deep
yeah so we're heading to uh Tony's
computer repair shop or whatever it was called but we're having a kind of a hard
time finding that cross street um of coast Meridian and Perry
we're not sure how to spell Perry and Coast meridian's kind of a big
street okay so we're a little lost right now so I don't have anywhere else to
go okay it's coast Meridian and prair
okay not prry pulling it up okay well that'll help all right navigate me Bob
Coast mury in a prairie Here We Go sir
kind sketchy looking at least we're not doing it at
night yeah I can get a little dicey
okay it would have been nice if the uh
knew the name of the
shop okay I found it I found it there it
is computers and laptops digital TV and
stereo sales and repairs
okay oh yeah desktop yeah yeah don't
don't record anything scar us wrong that's that's about as useless a lead as
we could have possibly had hey at least we don't ow five bucks now yeah at least
it was close to uh at least it was close to the case we got already yeah we
didn't have to go too far other than the circles we drove in to find it
but if we buy that almost complete system from the guy
with the SSD if we just do it bite the
bullet then we'll know what we can spend on the rest we still need a GPU which I
haven't looked into at all there's wab
buy AMD r9290 for 250 like never mind
you know people asking too much for sale there's people with want to buy posts
what are we going to do okay um I'm
looking we pull $500 on the tow on the
on the the parts so we have what 900 to spend we have 900 to spend we already SP
on a case we're at 880 so that's 520 that one had a power supply though that
was okay right power supply was fine okay so if it has everything we need but
a GPU that leaves us
$400 I mean I will for a GPU and then
are we just going to paint like are we just going to go okay we need acrylic
we'll need a little bit of Hardware there's an Ace Hardware right there you want to just go walk we totally go we
can just totally see what they got okay let's go see what's in Ace Hardware
let's just let's jwalk Street and go see
what's in Ace hard so these are pretty good we got a bannered any surface any
angle titanium silver I mean what colors do you think I mean you want to you want
to run and get the case and like bring it in and talk about it like so we're
going to grab the case we're going to take it into the store and give it a
little bit more thought while we can well we can visualize a little better
here cuz I don't know about Bob but I don't visualize well when I can't look
at my canvas fairly close to the original color here um little a little
bit darker um but it should give us good coverage and we can paint the inside and
then for if we want to get if we want to
get crazy and do some striping I can either do it with the spray cans or I
can do it with the airbrush where would you put the uh where would you want the
stripe like would you do like the two stripes or like the so like if we if we
came off of say say this handle and we
did just like a a 1 in wide stripe and
came down yeah we could either continue it follow this angle and and then carry
it right here and go like out towards the front we could taper it out we could
chop it up towards the end whatever or we can we could run it completely down
if we kept both handles we could go like this bring it down across here back up
and come back over this handle silver is a good color to use because it hides any
kind of body work or dents and stuff like that really well lighter colors
hide flaws and stuff really good sure so are we committed to the silver I think
so let's do the silver silver is allaround good color because it's
neutral enough that so if you so one way one way to pick paints is like let's say
you come in here and you go I want to do a I want to do a blue but I want to use
a second color okay so you can take this blue right here and you can go along
here and you just look at it and go well I don't want want to use this with it
right that looks pretty bad blue and yellow isn't too bad
depending on what you're doing right you know and then you just keep on blue and
silver that looks nice together blue and black looks good together so if you just
hold it up and you go along just you know use your use your eye for your
color choices and then so when you when you're talking about silver now you go
along there and you go well gez silver and blue goes good silver and red goes
good silver and orange goes silver and yellow looks good I mean you can't lose
so we go with safe safe silver yep and then let's figure out our accent color
once we find out what our hardware and we may go we may
uh we may just airbrush that or something too so okay all right cool all
right awesome Rock I feel really good about this case find I think 20 bucks
for an allmetal case absolutely is a killer oh my God yeah we I mean there's
we did not go wrong with this yep um I
feel good about the pl for the paint the one thing that really worries
me right now is Hardware I hate to spend all that money on that one setup but
really it's a One-Stop shop and go and if we can solve that problem now done
and we're ready to build then do you want to just go if we got done a whole
day early and we just go play video
games hello hi I'm calling about that uh
computer on Craigslist again I had called earlier uh I had talked to you
about uh leaving out the video card and the hard drive and you had said you
could knock a 100 bucks total off uh that's correct yeah okay I was
wondering if it would be okay for us to swing by and come have a look is it
tomorrow okay uh bummer okay could I come tomorrow
morning yeah that's fine okay sure thing
um well we can't go get it now yeah so um but we can go find a piece of acrylic
yeah so we're going to want a piece I think we're going to want a piece of
acrylic for the window yeah so we're going to want something and it's big enough for that and then if we're
talking about the inside as well so if we want to put like a false floor in it
and that kind of stuff hi um we were told that you might have some acrylic
scraps that we could buy I I haven't for you you do oh
wonderful yeah and gotal Plastics okay yeah and they have a lot of scraps
wonderful thank you so much that was very helpful acrylic
accessories just in case you need you know one of these here we go so this is scrap
L yeah this all the remnants that they have well that looks like a side panel
window right there I look at that and I see side
panel window yep we might have another
little monkey wrench in our plan here uh
he can't cut anything for us today you guys have a table saw or what kind of
saw well the issue though is that we sure we can buy stuff today but we have
to buy the whole piece right he can't cut it down the size going to be cheap
we're it's not even going to how much was this one is it labeled he didn't no
it's not but it'll be it shouldn't be very much we'll find out but it should
not but that 3 mil and it's not 3 mil it's actually going to be four so
um right oh yeah it's closer to four or
even like five I don't know if they have that size though like I don't I don't
know if that's a size that is oh that that's very close
let's do that one that's very close well here do you want to yeah we we'll go see
have a quick Vio at it see what you think yeah that's the one we need right there Brandon do you want to have a and
our width is we need you know we're good there so that's so we just need that one
and that one that gets our window that gets the inside pieces yeah and that
gets our front bezel piece so we see what kind of deal he'll make us on this
okay okay right and you think we got enough we're good yeah okay I'll grab
the case I'm going to bat my eyes and stuff out
that you better be prepared to do more than
that okay so for both of them
3450 3450 huh that's a big hit to the
budget yeah so if we had to come back tomorrow and get
pieces cut to size do you guys charge for like per cut or cuz like frankly we
don't even need nearly this much okay tell tell you what like give
it you for 24
64 we're here and it's here and it's the right thickness and we don't do any more
hunting okay fine and actually the the
those two sizes are the same price in the I appreciate
that so that's the that's the deal this
is all clear right yes yes we do know
that we had gotten that far at least Y yep
we so mainstream uhuh whereas like you
go into a place like that and you can find all kind do you have any idea how
much this would have cost us at Home Depot up here uh I don't but I a fortune
really yeah like a piece like a like a
piece like this could be like 2030 bucks
no problem so this stuff where I buy it at the sign shop that I usually go to
they have stuff and it's $250 cents a pound so this is like 2 lb right would
have been five bucks America man I think I contributed about
equally to the team today Bob's got the skills when it comes to how we're going
to actually paint the thing but uh I helped find the case I got the leads
going on the actual PC Hardware that we're going to need so I'm feeling
pretty good about what I did well you
know I feel like we did okay today I think so um we didn't really get much
done on the hardware side no but I like
this case I think they're going to have a hard time beating this case yeah I
think so too so tomorrow's plan of attack is to uh get a little bit of
fabrication done and also secure
Hardware um we really need to get our Hardware in so that we can do some color
choices on paint and uh uh we got a couple things to do first before we roll
out the door so hopefully one of us can find hardware while one of us is working
on the case my biggest worry for the rest of the competition is whatever
those guys are doing for their case mod because while ours is going to look
really sharp and really clean and really good it's not going to be like way out
there so if they have like outer space alien theme or something then that might
be a big Advantage for them I think our biggest success of the day was finding
that random shop that's going to be giving us two computer cases for free
and some random motherboards and maybe other stuff so hopefully that goes
really well and hopefully we can actually get more things from them
hopefully that's our our Linus' crack shop our biggest success today was um
coming up with the right range of Hardware to hit on be right around Sandy
Bridge we wanted to have as many threads as possible on our processor tomorrow we
need to do a lot of stuff scrap Wars usually seems to have the first day as a
lot of like in office kind of planning stuff and then the second day has a lot
of actionable items so we have a few ideas in the literal fire department
which we've developed near the end of the day today so we need to go get our
fire devices whatever assortment of things that ends up being uh we need to
go get those cases and potentially more
stuff from that place that we found randomly online um and we Yeah
tomorrow's going to be a lot of actually going and getting the things that we
planned on potentially getting today right now so we got actually a lot done
I mean for first day we did a lot of shopping we got product we got we got it
torn down we're ready it's yeah we're going to be a day early we
might oh man yeah man I wish you'd find it in
your heart to just hopefully go along with the three oh my God