[ale] Thermite party

[Tom Freeman]

Well, since I've purchased the straight up thermite myself, I'd guess I'm 
already on the list.

As a thought, it might be worth the effort to strip the circuit boards off 
for separate disposal, and retrieval of the permanent magnets should be 
well worth the effort.

On Tue, 28 Dec 2010, Greg Freemyer wrote:

> All,
>
> Is there any interest in doing this as a group?  Maybe in March or April.
>
> 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.)
>
> We'd need to find a large area of dirt where the fire department won't
> come shut us down I assume.
>
> Anyone else have a collection of drives they need to destroy?
>
> Is buying the chemicals going to put me on terrorist watch list?
>
> 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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