TL;DR

Linus Tech Tips just snagged a $40,000-plus environmental test chamber for only $1,000 at auction—mainly because they lowballed the bid and unexpectedly won. It’s been unplugged for over a decade, stored outdoors in a surplus yard, and the original manufacturer is long gone.

Now the LTT Labs team has a mystery machine to wrestle through the door, figure out if it’s water-cooled, coax it back to life, and come up with a real plan for using (and maintaining) this unexpected box of problems.

Watch on YouTube