Hard Disk Drive Scrap - Shark Scrapper Style 

First Thanks for shouting Me out! We love them hard drive boards! Thanks again for your help. Providing low cost fast computers is a challenge, but I'm not losing anything! We are family! Thank all the veiwers your support grows the channel! Y'all have a great and safe time!

These little units appears to have good value when broken down. As Ben says, it all adds up! Thanks, enjoyed!👍👍

Informative breakdown. Thanks for taking the time to explain and share. Take care, Poo

ah neodymium magnets pinch i know that pain,the way you said stuff at the start had a irish tone to it think i might be robbing off on you anyways enjoyed the video thanks for sharing

Thank you for your service! 🇺🇸

Another Fantastic Stripping Down Session - very Informative indeed - we make our self's a Cup of Coffee and sit back and enjoy Your Videos - we Love it - so my Friend please stay Safe and many Cheers from Australia !!!!

Nicely explained.

A very good tutorial vid on hard drives, yes those magnets 🧲 can be a health hazard 😬...big thumbs up mate 👍

Hi mr shark.thanks for the heads up on these.i picked up something new there.i like the bin full of wire,the bin looks like an apple product with the blue lids.

Great video

Thanks for putting out this video Shark 🦈. Ive got a little stack of hard drives I need to do.

I used to break them down but not worth it anymore. Great video.

Yes no matter what I'm trying to take apart always always if I don't have enough tools I may have to go back to my tool bag or bucket or whatever I keep my tools to find you know something shark Scrapper you're absolutely right

Very informative Shark ! I currently have a stock pile of (1) HDD ! 😁😁😊

love it

I use a small metal pole to knock the motors out of the cases,I just rest the one I’m hitting between to other empty cases to raise it a little.

These tiny hard drives,back when I started out on scrapping the drives were 12 inch 8 and the 5"s,problem the damn screws kept getting smaller,the 12"s some had magnesium in them,one magnet was 25 kilos.

Yeeeew for Gold Recovery 👍

I have 41 old hard drives from the 90s and 2000s. Not very interested in breaking them down, do you know a good place or site that buys them to scrap or salvage?

That’s was a great video shark .. those platters I melt down and make bars out of them .. and thanks for the knowledge about the magnets.. I’ve been wondering what to do with them 😂😂😂..and I like that Dewalt screwdriver you got I’ll be looking for one of those tomorrow.. thanks again for your videos.. p.s the hot sauce is great I had it on my eggs first 😂😂😂

I have one of the magnets on my key chain, that way its always accessible for use. .my Keychain just clips to my belt loop

Can you comment on how much you pay per pound for the pallets of computers? Vs. Your yield from scrapping, vs your time inputs?

You’re like me with a ton of magnets stuck under my workbench on a cabinet, wondering if and when I’ll sell them on eBay.🤷🏼‍♂️ And there’s always one on each corner in my pickup bed😄

most interesting insight into what you can do with hdds hardrives guess loads of them if your scrapping lots of pcs *full viewed👍Au👍left our like for you*

Thank you for the very informative video!! Did the agreement with scrapping out all the PCs end up being worth it, or are you still testing? I assume you'll have less time for street scraping, but the quality of the computers might compensate for that.

Good day Interesting video. I learn new words Boy those things are pretty detailed to me. That nice of your friend to do that. Now those computers from yard, do you buy them, I thought you work for them Nice video. Thanks

Isn't that a silica bag to pickup moisture?

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Good morning brother I was wondering if you don’t mind and I understand if you do, but what do you pay for a pallet of computers?

It actually hurts to think and see the amazing things people dispose of every single day.

Apologies for being off topic, but I'm curious if you've ever scrapped baseboard heaters. More specific: Radiant heaters that contain copper pipes, with aluminum fins. This copper pipe has two copper pipes inside, which act as the element(I believe). It has a tough wire running through it, either nick/chrome, or tungsten I'd wager(Probably nick/chrome as it's slightly magnetic). But the main question is, there's a white hard substance inside this inner copper pipe. I've already separated the heat transfer oil that filled the space inside the main copper pipe. But this white crap looks crystalline under a microscope. I'm just hoping it isn't Asbestos😑

How profitable is scrapping HDD-s at your location? do you get more money by scrapping them or selling them as they are to the scrapyard? :)

On last thing, I put hard drive magnets on almost every dumpster I dive just so one is there? Trust me they don't fall off!

Great I wish here in NZ I could get HDD's or old computers

Very interesting. Is there any true way to erase a hard drive to completely be able to use all the space again? Stay safe and God Bless.

😂😂thought were at the 🏖

20+ years ago I read a Field manual for opening a bottle of ketchup! Really. It even showed the angle of grip! WTH!

Dam hawk, lol. ive done many of these in the past with out a care in the world not knowing their ture value

95% of YT-videos made by amateur scrappers/refiners are misleading; some may even be on the border of being false. Most of these people claim that HD Platters are worthless (or almost worthless) and throw them in the aluminium bin. They are oblivious to the fact that some companies actually buy them as valuable e-waste. Some RU-vidrs have even made clumsy attempts to recover PMs from the coating on HD platters; without succes. Therefore, they bravely claim that there are no valuables. There is, but the valuables in each platter are miniscule. Here comes the old rule of thumb regarding e-waste recycling into effect: Quantity = profit! Process a batch of 1000 platters the correct way, sell the aluminium, and then extract the values from the removed coating. All those YT-amateurs have made the same mistake of dissolving platters in acid. Aluminium and tin are the metal refiner's "enemies"! Both are difficult to remove from an acid solution afterwards; with aluminium being near impossible for an amateur. Besides that, at the same time they have also lost the aluminium that counts for most of the value in a HD platter. Acid is 19th century technique. Today there're so many other ways to process e-waste without using expensive acid, gaining a much higher profit. I use very little acid, despite I can use as much as I want due to all my HNO3, HCl, and H2SO4 being homemade at no cost. From a commercial kitchen I obtained a stainless four burner gas cooker intended for scrapping. Instead of dismantling, I rebuilt it to three burners so it would fit my 130 liter stainless steel cooking pot. This pot looks like a normal household cooking pot, except it's about a hundred times bigger. The frame of the gas cooker certainly needed additional reinforcement. This pot is (among other purposes) used for recovery of silver from CDs. Again, many YT-amateurs have made videos with failed attempts to recover silver from common CDs, leading them to wrongfully claim there are absolute not any values in CDs. The consumed gas for heating the large cooking pot is free, coming from my anaerobic digesters. These also provides me with a nice biproduct: Pure sulfur; perfect for turning into SO2 when needed, for precipitation of metals from acid solutions.

Lol....this isn’t rocket science, your just unscrewing stuff