/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>485863
I use a plastic 1 pint container for the same thing, OP. I also use soda/juice bottle necks and caps for small storage items.

[spoiler]What's you latest salvage operation? What do you plan on doing with you haul?

Here's mine, from about a dozen or more CD/DVD-ROMs, 8 HDDs, PSUs, and various other old electronics like VCRs and the like.

14 Neodymium (N50) magnets
27 motors
lots of LEDs
lots of plastic gears and pulleys
more screws than I will ever use
tons and tons and tons of PCB components

Well, here's a pic of nearly everything. I still have several old PCs to scrap. I have a stack of aluminum and a stack of steel. The N50 magnets are going to be made into electric generators for modified Savonius VAWTs intended to charge batteries; like in this application of them,

http://www.reuk.co.uk/Hard-Disk-Drive-Magnets-For-Wind-Turbines.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savonius_wind_turbine

Instead of using vice grips to bend the N50's mounting bracket, like in the above link to get the N50 off, use heat. I held mine, with vice grips over a gas burner cap on my cook stove, for about 20-30 seconds or longer then used a pair of needle nose pliers to SLIDE the magnets off the mounting bracket. The glue heats up and its easy to get the N50s off the bracket that way. On only one N50 did the nickel coating bubble up, but it is still fine. Be careful with N50s then slap together HARD and can break.

Here's a fairly good chart of PCB Circuit Symbols,
http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/symbol.htm</spoiler>