We actually had that discussion maybe 6,9,12 (?) months ago and it even went so far as some moderately serious discussion about having a thermite party, with one contributor saying they might be able to swing a location. I'm all for it!<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Tim Watts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@cliftonfarm.org">tim@cliftonfarm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Gotta say I'm a little disappointed at all the reasonable responses to<br>
this.<br>
<br>
There was a time when any mention of disk destruction would inevitably<br>
spark a multi-day round table of C4 and other pyrotechnic fantasies. And<br>
would eventually devolve into some kind of weird topic involving<br>
lubricants before someone would finally step in and say "Wow, what just<br>
happened here?"<br>
<br>
What happened ALE? <sniffle/><br>
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On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 11:42 -0400, planas wrote:<br>
> Hi<br>
><br>
> On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 09:35 -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:<br>
> > On 8/5/11 12:47 AM, Sparr wrote:<br>
> > > I've recently come into possession of a large security disintegrator,<br>
> > > designed for shredding things like hard drives and tapes and such. I'm<br>
> > > trying to figure out what to do with it. Selling it is, of course, an<br>
> > > option, but I was thinking of possibly starting up a small security<br>
> > > business to destroy hard drives for people. Is there a market for that<br>
> > > in Atlanta?<br>
> > It would make a big difference if your apparatus of mindless destruction<br>
> > were mobile. But you are going to have a waste stream like nobody's<br>
> > business; some of that will be leaded solder, which is toxic. One thing<br>
> > you could certainly do without too much difficulty would be to separate<br>
> > out the ground-up magnets; run the refuse past a piece of iron that gets<br>
> > scraped off periodically. I don't know what all the composition of disk<br>
> > drive magnets would be in the field - I'd suspect samarium cobalt and<br>
> > neodymium. What you recover could potentially be press-formed into<br>
> > fairly decent magnets, suitable for electricity generation, but as far<br>
> > as actually separating out the metals into bulk material with a net<br>
> > positive value, I dunno.<br>
> ><br>
> > Possessing this device only makes sense if it's actively being used, so,<br>
> > congratulations on having entered the waste processing business! :)<br>
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> Once you grind up the hard drive you could attempt to recover the<br>
> metals present using a combination of physical and chemical methods.<br>
> The metals should be a reasonable purity to sell .<br>
><br>
> If limited metal recovery is done you probably will have D- series<br>
> (unless the EPA has a specific classification) hazardous waste. I do<br>
> not know the current prices for hazardous waste disposal. But when I<br>
> was handling waste disposal I found there was roughly a 10x difference<br>
> between the charges of non-hazardous waste and a hazardous waste.<br>
><br>
> Off topic stupidity, most people do not realize that fluorescent<br>
> lights should be disposed as a hazardous waste - mercury is the<br>
> culprit.<br>
><br>
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