[ale] Thermite party

[Jim Kinney]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>wrote:

> All,
>
> Is there any interest in doing this as a group?  Maybe in March or April.
>

Interested? Hell yeah!  And recorded with the best video gear we can find!

>
> I really do have about 50 in-operative drives I need to destroy at
> some point.  If 50 dixie cups of poor man's thermite can be had for
> $100 or less, I'd be curious to try it out.  (fyi: P'tree Shredder
> will shred them for $7/ea. so $350 is my worst case cost.)
>

Can we do it in an arranged-pattern burn for maximum art-coolness? A dual
brick stack with a hard drive suspended between them so we can see the
molten slag dropping from the top layer down to layers below.

>
> We'd need to find a large area of dirt where the fire department won't
> come shut us down I assume.
>

Probably need to get this cleared with the fire dept in advance.  Maybe get
permission if it's presented as both geek and performance art. Eyedrum music
background?

>
> Anyone else have a collection of drives they need to destroy?
>
yep!

>
> Is buying the chemicals going to put me on terrorist watch list?
>
most likely :-(  But it may be worth it :-)

>
> Greg
>
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Mike Harrison <cluon at geeklabs.com> 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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