Bin Chickens in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Recycling centre

Bin Chickens

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 428 211 121

Address: NA Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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23.01.2022 Street Scrapping Tips for PCs/Laptops: 1. If you're just doing a quick eyeball over some hard rubbish, look for Blue USB ports. Those are USB3, and having them built into a motherboard indicates a later-model board that can easily be refurbished. 2. Stockpile parts if you don't need them immediately. PSUs, RAM, hard drives, CPUs - even heatsinks. Cases too, if you have the room. ... 3. Have a screwdriver set in the car. Sometimes it helps to pick something up, drive away somewhere private, take out the parts you need and then drop the parts you don't back in hard rubbish. Better yet, take the parts you don't need to a waste transfer station for recycling - almost all of them allow you to drop off e-waste for free. 4. Foxtel IQ boxes and some other set top units have a perfectly good hard drive inside - usually 1TB or more. 5. Be careful- some of these things have spiders in them

18.01.2022 This guy gets it http://nautil.us//sys/is-this-man-the-elon-musk-of-e_waste

14.01.2022 HAHA it's been almost one year exactly since I last updated this. Hopefully soon we will have a streaming weekly (maybe twice weekly) chat about the philosophy of binchickening, the noble practice of salvaging goods from the scrapheap. Just in case anyone was unclear, this isn't about environmentalism exactly. Nor is it about flipping saleable goods for profit. This is about socialism in a strict sense. The current economic system creates enormous, ruinous amounts of waste ...Continue reading

13.01.2022 HAHA it's been almost one year exactly since I last updated this. Hopefully soon we will have a streaming weekly (maybe twice weekly) chat about the philosophy of binchickening, the noble practice of salvaging goods from the scrapheap. Just in case anyone was unclear, this isn't about environmentalism exactly. Nor is it about flipping saleable goods for profit. This is about socialism in a strict sense. The current economic system creates enormous, ruinous amounts of waste ...Continue reading

04.01.2022 LET'S DISCUSS $1000 MONITOR STANDS I like refurbishing old computers. Not super old, vintage collectors items - I’m talking computers from 5-10 years ago that get tossed out, even though they’re still extremely capable with just cheap upgrades of memory or storage. Some of that tendency comes from my experience as a facilities manager and seeing literally tons of e-waste sent straight into landfill. For people with my hobby, the old Mac Pro was the holy grail of abandoned co...Continue reading

03.01.2022 Here's some tips on refurbishing computers and parts from discarded scrap or items being sold cheap on FBM or Gumtree. Note: this all makes more sense if you already know the basics of taking a laptop or PC apart and replacing certain components: 1. If you're building a PC for resale and you have the choice between a Power Supply Unit (PSU) with fixed cables or modular cables, use the fixed cables. Modular cables can't be replaced with generic replacements, and finding origin...al manufacturer replacements can be tricky. Better to sell any modular PSUs on their own if you have the right cables. 2. If you're putting together a PC for resale, don't feel the need to supply more than 8GB RAM. Power users who need more than that aren't interested in cheap refurbs. Better to hang onto the RAM for future builds or to sell separately to other builders. 3. Almost always, you should be buying as many cheap 128GB SSDs to use as boot drives and stockpiling cheap HDDs as separate storage drives. The performance gains on an old PC or laptop from an SSD boot drive is way more than you'd get from upgrading the CPU or RAM. But a boot drive larger than 128GB is too expensive for cheap builds, and it makes far more sense to have a cheap HDD for storage only. 4. You should have USB boot sticks for Windows 10 and a macOS. I prefer Mavericks, since it's early enough to be lightweight and reliable to install, and then upgrading for free to the latest OS through the mac app store. Windows 10 is free and easy to create a boot drive out of - just install without activation. The only thing they can't easily change is the wallpaper. Also keep a USB boot stick fo Windows 7 and linux around if you're refurbing really old machines. 5. Have several precision screwdriver sets, with hex bits. Get the longest ones you can find. Also keep a strong telescopic magnet to retrieve lost screws. 6. Try to refurb macs as much as possible. They resell much better, regardless of specs. 7. Have some anti-static brushes at hand. Compressed air too, but if you're doing a lot invest some money in an air compressor. They're loud as hell but you only need them for a minute or two at a time to really blast out dust. 8. Focus on cheap but capable builds selling for <$200 (or <$400 for macs). Anything more won't appeal to enthusiasts or pro users anyway. You want to refurb discarded computers to make reliable systems for people who want to use PCs for school and office work, watching videos and streaming youtube. Focus on a little bit of headroom (ie. 8GB ram, avoid old AMD and Intel Core2 chips) but otherwise only go after gamers and pros if you're willing to invest in pricey graphics cards.