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one of the most helpful but least possessed and least used things for people building computers is a magnetic parts tray one of the most abundant things in the computers world are dead hard drives this is actually an equation that we can solve kula masters new master keys Pro L and Pro s keyboards feature sixteen point seven million color RGB backlighting genuine Cherry MX switches and an industry-leading ARM Cortex processor learn more at the link in the video description we build computers all the time that's kind of like literally our job one of the downsides to this is having a huge amount of hardware boxes for hardware that are missing screws because someone was careless and didn't keep track with them properly okay to be fair in most cases that was probably me because of that the three sides of my personality are all in unanimous favor of Linus who grabbed a load of magnetic parts trays in the past he even featured them in a handy tech under 100 episode three which you can check out up here these were great but he bought them when we worked in a house and had a company of about six people now we work in a big office and employ like 13 people I actually have no idea does that make me a bad manager probably that's fair what it doesn't do is ruin my passion for honestly just screwing around with hardware and today's victim was well you guessed it the hard drive and what will my dead harddrive sacrificial body be used for in the absence of its ability to hold memories well we're going to tear the thing apart carefully actually and then we're going to extract some neodymium magnets to make our own parts trays with well to be honest some tape and any random object we can actually get our hands on you're going to need a small Torx screwdriver the size of which will be determined by the hard drive that you have I recommend getting some form of kit because just scrapping for different hard drives I ran into two different sizes of screws I would also recommend that you get a flathead screwdriver or a pry bar to pry the top off and now that that's out of the way here we go unscrew all the visible screws on the top and then try to find the sneekybeeky screws they decided to hide under stickers or the drive information sheet once you're done removing all of these pry the top of the freaking hard drive off now that you're on the inside you can start by removing the first magnetic plate you're gonna have to pry it off it's very unlikely that there will be any screws attached to this next up you can move on to the actuator or the platters depending on whichever is easiest for you this can be a little frustrating as there's tons of little screws and different things overlapping each other but it won't take all that long and once you're done removing all of that it's time to work out the bottom magnet which should just be a couple screws and some prying away from freedom now for today's video we're going to be using the magnets so we're definitely going to keep those but if you have a lot of hard drives especially you should consider selling their individual components for scrap especially the metals inside of the hard drive and the PCB that's on the bottom of the drive they can all be sold not for a ton of money mind you but if you have a lot of drives with a little bit of time you can turn a profit check out board sort comm if you're interested in that alas our magnets have been retrieved and we're ready to start making our magnetic parts trays the more magnets you get the larger the surface area you can effectively use as a magnetics parts tray also naturally the creation of these parts trays will come down to your creativity but some of my favorite ones that I made in the office where the stealth which is a hard drive that is actually a magnetic part straight you just take all the guts out put the magnets on the bottom of the lid tape them on and then screw everything back together so it looks like a hard drive I know I'm kind of weird don't worry about it another one was the more practical repurposed box which originally had a Space Pen in it I just taped the magnets to the bottom of the outside of the box this one has the added practicality of being able to be magnetically stuck to other metals like a normal magnetic parts trick and last but not least is taking a piece of cardboard drawing out a grid with like a sharpie or something and then taping the magnets in a grid formation in order to create a magnetic sorting pad sick is this remotely useful at all I think so but what do I know you tell me hit me up on Twitter Luke underscore la fr and let me know if you've made one of your own tunnel there is the easy to use VPN app for mobile and desktop that lets you tunnel to up to 20 different countries allowing you to browse the internet and use online services as if you're in one of those selected countries they have apps for iOS Android PC and Mac and they also have a Chrome extension the apps are super easy 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