Exploring The Hidden Treasures Of An E-Waste Facility!

[@horusfalcon]

Man... I live in an e-waste desert, and that's probably a good thing. I'd be running out of money on a regular basis.

[@igorperuchi2114]

Thank you, Aaron, for bringing us on a tour to one of your e-waste facilities, it was very cool to see so much good stuff around. Kinda sad, also! I wish I'd have an e-waste facility like that on my country too!

[@RetroHackShackAfterHours]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@CheshireNoir]

18:21 - "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

[@KomradeMikhail]

9:56 More likely that gold scrappers cut the ISA fingers off... The bane of retro collectors.

[@RetroHackShackAfterHours]

Yeah. That's true. I don't see how that would be worth it though.

[@KomradeMikhail]

I used to see it more often about 10 years ago, less lately... They cut the fingers off because there's more gold there than the rest of the PCB. They soak it in a dish of acid to separate. Scrappers also used to take all the Pentium Pro CPU's because those have a high gold content... Makes them a little more rare today than they should be.

[@Ramdileo_sys]

@@RetroHackShackAfterHours OOOhhhhh "a magic place" 🤗....... I still prefers the Dubai one do.... I mean potato bag full of microprocessors, Man look!!😳.. »» kzbin.info/www/bejne/q32UoYqonMh6otk ....... I wanna go on vacation to Dubai.. just for visit that scrap yard 🙁...

[@johnglielmi6428]

E-Waste Wednesday, Edit Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Upload Sunday LOL! Thanks for all the great videos Aaron, please continue making them. The Sony Trinitron would be great with my CoCo Computer.

[@qcumberleekboy3355]

Man, seeing this poor Sound Blaster AWE32 Model CT3990 (9:50) in this condition, is truly heartbreaking. It deserved way better than to end up like this. Despite this, I'd like to express my gratitude for this amazing content! I really appreciate it. You're awesome!

[@RetroHackShackAfterHours]

Thank you!

[@aaron71]

The chips could still live on used on a clone card!

[@MIJ-Tech]

With LGR not doing as many of his thrifting videos lately, this was satisfying.

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

9:57 I probably would've taken the Sound Blaster anyways and taken parts like the crystals, silicon, etc... for repair on another Sound Blaster. It can't be restored easily but it definitely can be used to revive another Sound Blaster.

[@inhotwater457]

This was great. Can you interview the guy who gave the safety briefing? He has seen a lot of stuff go down and pass through that facility. Thanks again.

[@RetroHackShackAfterHours]

Richard is great. He is a former IT tech and knows a lot about vintage computers.

[@inhotwater457]

@@RetroHackShackAfterHours"Ever seen two people fighting over a tube amp?" 😂😂😂

[@DavidMadeira29]

"Not very great gaming" so you gave it to a friend?! One of a kind, I guess. Namastè.

[@j.lietka9406]

There's an e-waste collection company near me, with dumpsters, but most of what I have found is nearly destroyed. I have found some complete things: cameras, cell phones, some other things, but what the company does is tear the PCs, laptops, boxes, stereos, monitors, large screen TV's up so for the most part, they can't be used. Or not worth taking as it would cost more $$ than its worth to rebuild. It's mostly scrap. Lots to look at, dig through but not much worth taking. This place you are at is at least set up where you can come in, look, and buy. 5:20 nice 27" curved monitor!! Not sure if the place near me has an open day to sell items. Ad a kind of hobby I look for electronics in dumpsters and curbside stuff. That Sony Trinitron still use some tubes?

[@jasmijndekkers]

Hi Aaron, nice finds on e-waste. Great content. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands

[@RetroHackShackAfterHours]

Thanks and greetings!

[@launadro1646]

How do I ask for replacement parts that I need?

[@baroncalamityplus]

Ewaste around me don't sell to the public. Once it goes to Ewaste, it doesn't come back out.

[@ebbamb]

Same, near me it all just goes to recycling.

[@DimasFajar-ns4vb]

your treasure is so different sir for some people sometimes for me and zamzam water

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

How do you find these places

[@proteque]

such a cool place. absolutely everything is locked away here. so impossible to save anything. quite sad.

[@angrydove4067]

I have one of those tube testers!

[@bondjovi4595]

This is really great. Re-Furbish, Preserve history.

[@techwolflupindo]

How does one find an e-waste place that will take all your e-waste?

[@yntenseinfo]

If I could, I would take a lot of stuff with me

[@RetroHackShackAfterHours]

One of the toughest things is that I can't take everything. I have to draw a line somewhere. I take as much as I can and try to pass it on.

[@markderoller7645]

Trinitron was a nice pickup. Was happy to see you plug in a Sega Genesis as period correct.

[@ohioterran7374]

Awesome tour of your ewaste facility! It's great to see those items get a second life! Great video!

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

Flatron IS a better version of it,you do realise it?😊

[@KrissBartlett]

Thank you for that great work

[@micflynn1]

At 9:24 You picked up and chucked back an AMIGA 500 INTERNAL Floppy Drive!!!

[@RetroHackShackAfterHours]

Good eye! I'll see if it is still there this Wed.

[@Ramdileo_sys]

OOOhhhhh "the magic place" 🤗....... I still prefers the Dubai one do.... I mean potato bag full of microprocessors, Man look!!😳.. »» kzbin.info/www/bejne/q32UoYqonMh6otk ... I wanna go on vacation to Dubai.. just for visit that scrap yard 🙁..