Salvaging stuff

Since today was Saturday and there were no service calls (apart from a customer appointment in Sungei Wang), I had my techs salvage the PCs given by our customer to dispose of. Knowing my customer, there is a good reason why he had to throw them away and just to spend a bit on missing RAMs, HDD and a Windows XP license is not worth the trouble.

So, I taught them how to salvage the power supplies, processors, fans and other stuff which I think could be useful later on. But mainly, its the power supplies I am interested as I am going to turn them into tools for the techs later on. As for the rest, I had some pockets desoldered from the motherboards and then have them all sold, with the PC casing for a meagre RM12 from the iron mongers where a pair of 7AH batteries fetched a better price. Oh well.

These are some of the parts we salvaged (No, not the monitor!)

But for me, I got the processors and their cooling fans!

After thinking long and hard, this is my favourite of all

A visit to Sungei Wang got me another waist pouch (RM70). It is
very much rugged and the design is almost the same as my first
pouch. The one on the left costs me about the same but I got it
in Rantau Panjang last year. It was not that good as the cloth
was too "soft". Still it did serve me well and maybe I should
get it repaired if I see some tailor shop nearby one day.