TVs & monitors (note at least 3 of the Mac CRTs were still intact when they popped loose, amazing) :

http://www.ssiworld.com/watch/monitors-tvs.htm

Hard drives (watch the sparks!):

http://www.ssiworld.com/watch/hard_drives.htm

Watch it shread:

http://www.ssiworld.com/watch/watch-en.htm

I watched a bunch of these awhile back-that is some truly heavy duty equipment! I can see the benefit, provided you follow it up with machinery to seperate glass/plastic/metal. I guess that is how it is usually done? Watch the ones that "eat" a whole car, or an engine block.

Interesting to me that it seems to take longer to digest those Mac monitors than it does those TV sets. I wonder what model televisions they are? I'm guessing last-gasp Zenith 25" table models from the mid-80s. Doesn't seem to be much of a chassis to them. Scary, since they resemble a much older set. Those particle board cabinets just dissappear!

This is my favorite one:

http://www.ssiworld.com/watch/hippie_bug.htm

I watched a bunch of these awhile back-that is some truly heavy duty equipment! I can see the benefit, provided you follow it up with machinery to seperate glass/plastic/metal. I guess that is how it is usually done? Watch the ones that "eat" a whole car, or an engine block.

Interesting to me that it seems to take longer to digest those Mac monitors than it does those TV sets. I wonder what model televisions they are? I'm guessing last-gasp Zenith 25" table models from the mid-80s. Doesn't seem to be much of a chassis to them. Scary, since they resemble a much older set. Those particle board cabinets just dissappear!


Looked like a Hitachi console with removable base, and as you said, a 90s Zenith. At first glance from the back, the Hitachi looked like a CTC-7! Luckily not.

Maybe it makes me a wuss, but I don't like seeing stuff smashed, even if it's worthless junk.

Charles

Looked like a Hitachi console with removable base, and as you said, a 90s Zenith. At first glance from the back, the Hitachi looked like a CTC-7! Luckily not.

Maybe it makes me a wuss, but I don't like seeing stuff smashed, even if it's worthless junk.

Charles

Did you ever shoot that large CRT? I may have missed the video.

Shredding doesn't seem like the best way to recycle CRT's and hard drives. I would think it would make it more difficult to reclaim the rare earths from the phosphors and magnets.

It doesn't appear that any of the CRT's did anything exciting when they broke.

I also wonder what alloy the shredder is made of. I would think it would be ferromagnetic and that the broken magnets from the hard drives would stick to it.

John

This is my favorite one:

http://www.ssiworld.com/watch/hippie_bug.htm

This here one's mah fayvert:banana:--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oZd_P_jk7M&feature=related

oc(Bill)

This here one's mah fayvert:banana:--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oZd_P_jk7M&feature=related

oc(Bill)

Don't forget your safety glasses and flak jacket. What a mess!

John

Don't forget your safety glasses and flak jacket. What a mess!

John
Gotta dig this one too. Engine and gearbox extraction in just 2 minutes. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yn3YpIOew4&NR=1

Did you ever shoot that large CRT? I may have missed the video.



Not yet... I will keep the commitment and do a video of it, but had so much going on that I haven't had a chance.

Charles