[ale] old newbie -- now fun with harddrives

[rhia]

Sigh.  
See, this is the type of fun regional experimentation being the NW keeps
us from joining. 

Please, pretty please, take lots of video. =)

rhia

On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 19:03 -0500, Mike Harrison wrote:
> > with the eventual goal of physically killing them at some point.  (Is
> > it time for a ALE thermite party?  What's that cost anyway?)
> 
> Poors Mans Thermite; Aluminum and Iron filings with a little Magnesium Fuse..
> 
> http://chattarati.com/neighborhoods/southside/2010/12/8/demise-vega-chrysalis/
> 
> Note the small thermite "sparklers" at the top of the effigy, but the 
> video doesn't have the dixie cups of thermite that were along the
> central column.
> 
> A dixie cup of thermite on top of a hard drive should render it
> completely slagged and unreadable.  We'll have to experiment :)
> 
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