ANSWERS : Technology

I have several old computers. I can recycle most of the disks, power supplies, floppies, motherboards, etc. But eventually, things die. This leaves me with a box. In some of the older ones this is solid steel. Others are a mix of steel and plastic. The boxes are not air tight or water tight. They have holes in odd places. It's criminal to dump them in a land fill. What do do? It would be nice to make something beautiful or useful out of them.

Comments

[pfred2]

Sometimes I just use the outside cover for sheet metal stock. The power supplies gutted make great electronics project cases too. The inside chassis I dump. I saw a site on the Internet where a guy melted down a bunch of old hard disk drive chassis and cast himself some machine tools out of it.

[gutty]

see THIS:

http://www.instructables.com/id/computer-shell-soda-dispenser/?ALLSTEPS#step0

[majeral]

I am going to make it a bed for my cat.

[Plasmana]

Maybe this will give you some ideas...

[santy22]

I have an OLD computer case, and as it has some good spaces inside i nailed it to the wall and put things in it! the side all the connectors are in is the side that's naield to the wall.

[brandegor]

I don't know where you live, but a lot of people pick up scrap metal for free. Also, you can make cool furniture - check out Readymade magazine.

[cheesemaker101]

the bin ?

[cosgrove]

Make them into Armour and have Battles to the Death in your Front Yard

[purduecer]

worst comes to worst you could always play a fun small scale version of domino pc's

[Plasmana]

You could paint the cases with some wacky and cool designs and maybe try sell it on ebay?