Random Rants ΠΕ': You're standing on my neck.

[Cutlass]

If it's going to recycling anyway the best tool for disassembling things is a drill. Don't care about the fasteners, just drill the heads off and pull stuff apart.

I happen to have the specialty tools. Or most of them, at any rate.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I happen to have the specialty tools. Or most of them, at any rate.

Yeah, but generally speaking a drill is faster and you don't have to slow down for swapping.

 

[Cutlass]

Yeah, but generally speaking a drill is faster and you don't have to slow down for swapping.

Not that much faster. A battery impact driver, just swap bits and those screws come right out.

 

[Birdjaguar]

What is the upside dollars you might get for all that?

 

[Cutlass]

What is the upside dollars you might get for all that?

$30? Not enough to at all justify the cost for someone who isn't homeless. I'm just doing it because I'm bored and feeling destructive.

 

[Birdjaguar]

$30 can be a nice lunch for two or a very nice lunch for one.

 

[Cutlass]

$30 can be a nice lunch for two or a very nice lunch for one.

6 or 7 hours work is not enough to justify lunch.

 

[Birdjaguar]

6 or 7 hours work is not enough to justify lunch.

Sunk costs now. But, I guess you could take the $30 and buy some new fancier cables.....

 

[Cutlass]

Sunk costs now. But, I guess you could take the $30 and buy some new fancier cables.....

I'm really just doing it for the destruction.

 

[Takhisis]

Recycling them, and finding someone who actually wants them for use purposes, is 2 different stories. It's a fair amount of work to recycle them. It would be a lot more effort to find someone who wanted them for use purposes. There's a scrap yard 2 miles from here that will pay me for them. But in order to get any decent money per pound, e-waste has to be disassembled and separated by type. Which can be a non-trivial amount of work. Most people don't bother.

At the moment, I have a non-trivial amount of e-waste disassembled. But there's a fair number of hours of work into doing so. Pro tip: It's hard to disassemble a microwave oven. But a scrap yard will pay you more for the same circuit board, electric motors, wiring, and case, then they will for a whole microwave. And the reason for that is that it is hard to disassemble a microwave oven! And some e-waste is assembled with specialty fasteners. Many people don't even have the tools, other than to brute force it.

This is what I've got so far.

And I'm not down the the bottom of the pile of stuff I'm trying to get rid of.

I'm really just doing it for the destruction.

Also .

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: I laid down on my bed around 10 pm because I was feeling a little dizzy.

I just woke up now.

 

[AmazonQueen]

One of my bookshelves collapsed this morning!!!

 

[Arakhor]

You only have your shelf to blame!

 

[Morty]

Assuming it collapsed due to too many books then surely this is a rave!??

 

[MaryKB]

Guy: "I see you're reading the same book I am. Would you like to talk about your thoughts with me?"
Me: "Oh sure, that'd be lovely! What part are you up to? What do you think about how the author ... "
Guy: "Show me your boobs."

Heaven please save me.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Hands up who believes that happened.

 

[MaryKB]

Excuse me?

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Well if it's intended to be a verbatim retelling of something then I can't believe it happened*. If it's a condensed and paraphrased version of something then that's potentially more believable.

*unless it was blatant trolling on his part I suppose.

 

[MaryKB]

Well of course it's paraphrased, but the line "Show me your boobs" is absolutely verbatim ... but if I was being truly literal I guess I'd have to repeat that line like four times?

 

[JohannaK]

raises hand

But also: what. what.