Scrapper Girl - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: sonicj
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2012, 12:56:50 pm
content: OMG! Hawt!-sj

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2012, 01:34:12 pm
content: Looks like staged to attract a certain young mail audience. Watch her hands. No scratches, no marks, no scars. She usually doesn't do such work with her hands.

author: kripton2035
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2012, 01:38:14 pm
content: ... young MALE audience ... <8 !

author: chrome
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2012, 01:41:46 pm
content: Am I the only one that thinks this is weird? Fawning over a girl online. "omg so hotttt"

author: TbayBoy
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2012, 02:05:55 pm
content: Who has a garage door that clean of grease, probably a studio set.

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2012, 02:37:19 pm
content: Yeah, she didn't sound like she really understood what she was saying.I call 100% scripted.Compare it to a Jeri Ellsworth video and it's miles different.

author: westfw
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2012, 03:28:47 pm
content: I dunno. Someone who thinks the big haul from dissecting a TV is the "copper" is going to have a different perspective and mindset than someone who saves the HV mosfets and SMT resistors...

author: krivx
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2012, 04:41:39 pm
content: Quote from: chrome on June 01, 2012, 01:41:46 pmYes. It's strange how normalized this kind of thing is.

author: T4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2012, 04:50:25 pm
content: Quote from: westfw on June 01, 2012, 03:28:47 pmOne does it for the fame and the other does it McGyver, of course.

author: bfritz
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2012, 06:22:32 pm
content: So, how much do you think the scrap from that TV and computer are worth?I don't even know of anywhere locally that would buy the processor from me for the gold content, and I'm in Dallas.The copper and aluminum are much easier. Probably a couple pounds of copper wire. I think current rates for insulated copper wire are about $0.35/pound (because of the low recovery amount, as the weight is a lot of insulation). I believe cast aluminum to be about $0.40/pound. I'd guess about 2 pounds of copper wire, and about a pound of aluminum (I think I'm being generous...), so a total of $1.10. I'd say total time to collect items, take apart, and take materials to recycler of 20 minutes, assuming you do this regularly (much worse if you do it like she did!). So, if you are interested in $3.30/hr, have at it.

author: TheWelly888
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2012, 06:34:30 pm
content: ^^^Probably why so much electronic stuff gets scrapped in developing countries where $3.30 per hour is fantastic pay in that locality.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2012, 06:48:16 pm
content: Lots of people here work for a little more that a day.........I would say that the tools look new, and the props are unused mostly.

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 01, 2012, 07:22:14 pm
content: get fooled by a fool. they should learn better at hypnotism. i'm not buying not even watching. unless...

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2012, 12:14:30 am
content: "All around here is a copper wire that kinda holds it all together" - it's a degaussing coil you stupid airhead!"We need to safely discharge the TV" - obviously they cut here to get someone who knew what they were doing to do this - pity - I'd have LOVED to hear the squeal as she got a nice 25KV discharge!

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2012, 12:37:05 am
content: Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on June 02, 2012, 12:14:30 amBut they forgot to teach her how to properly hold the wire cutter. Sticking her index finger between the leavers, tss, tsss, tss ...QuoteI was hoping for that, too.BTW, this is the production company behind ithttp://www.chinimblelore.com/

author: AntiProtonBoy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2012, 01:19:49 am
content: I thought this was somewhat relevant:There is a special hell for nerds going overboard when a girl is online (or in this case featured online).

author: A-n-d-y
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: June 27, 2012, 08:49:36 am
content: I hate the way computer manufacturers solder the fan and case components directly to the motherboard so you have to cut them off... if only someone could invent some kind of removable connector?

author: RJSC
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 30, 2012, 12:39:15 am
content: Quote from: Bored@Work on June 02, 2012, 12:37:05 amIts not always wrong to do it.When using a wire cutter that has no spring (or its broken) I put my finger between the levers to open the jaws after cutting, to keep cutting wires in succession such as in an ATX PSU.I also do it a lot with my crappy needle nose pliers which have a lousy spring that loves to bury into the rubber handles, becoming useless.The springs look like this:

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 30, 2012, 01:14:01 pm
content: what a load of garbadge. I could have taken that TV apart in the same time the video lasted (without the outake time) and with one tool: The hammer, the holy grail of dismantling for scrap. If you can't get it open and apart with a hammer it won't be worth your time.I tend to go for easy stuff and the mixed stuff like copper wire epoxied onto cores that I'll never get apart or tiny motors I give to the scrap dealer for free and he does me a good price on what I sell him in return.If she is showing how to take a TV apart the discharge bit should have been shown for safety reasons, I'd love to see photoinduction do the same video, I'd probably prefer his method for once.Yea she wowed over every little thing that we all know are there because we all know what is in a TV. I like the way she showed how to take it apart like every TV is identical.........so much ignorrance. This sort of trash should be removed from the internet in the name of preserving resources for serious stuff like the eevblog

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 30, 2012, 01:15:34 pm
content: Oh and she had to use a magnet to identify aluminium heat sink ? good god !, funny she has to go to the auction to get this stuff.she is cutting wires off that are plugged in?