[ale] Off Topic, hard drive shredder

[Rich Faulkner]

Yeah, thermite...that was it!

A day out on the shooting range comes to mind too.  I wonder what
7.62x39 or 6.5x55 would do to a drive.  Is that digressing enough?

Too bad I don't have a .50 cal like a Barrett.  One round and I'd bet
they'd be in several small pieces.   RinL



On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 16:52 -0400, Greg Clifton wrote:
> 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!
> 
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Tim Watts <tim at cliftonfarm.org> wrote:
>         Gotta say I'm a little disappointed at all the reasonable
>         responses to
>         this.
>         
>         There was a time when any mention of disk destruction would
>         inevitably
>         spark a multi-day round table of C4 and other pyrotechnic
>         fantasies. And
>         would eventually devolve into some kind of weird topic
>         involving
>         lubricants before someone would finally step in and say "Wow,
>         what just
>         happened here?"
>         
>         What happened ALE? <sniffle/>
>         
>         
>         
>         On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 11:42 -0400, planas wrote:
>         > Hi
>         >
>         > On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 09:35 -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>         > > On 8/5/11 12:47 AM, Sparr wrote:
>         > > > I've recently come into possession of a large security
>         disintegrator,
>         > > > designed for shredding things like hard drives and tapes
>         and such. I'm
>         > > > trying to figure out what to do with it. Selling it is,
>         of course, an
>         > > > option, but I was thinking of possibly starting up a
>         small security
>         > > > business to destroy hard drives for people. Is there a
>         market for that
>         > > > in Atlanta?
>         > > It would make a big difference if your apparatus of
>         mindless destruction
>         > > were mobile.  But you are going to have a waste stream
>         like nobody's
>         > > business; some of that will be leaded solder, which is
>         toxic.  One thing
>         > > you could certainly do without too much difficulty would
>         be to separate
>         > > out the ground-up magnets; run the refuse past a piece of
>         iron that gets
>         > > scraped off periodically.  I don't know what all the
>         composition of disk
>         > > drive magnets would be in the field - I'd suspect samarium
>         cobalt and
>         > > neodymium.  What you recover could potentially be
>         press-formed into
>         > > fairly decent magnets, suitable for electricity
>         generation, but as far
>         > > as actually separating out the metals into bulk material
>         with a net
>         > > positive value, I dunno.
>         > >
>         > > Possessing this device only makes sense if it's actively
>         being used, so,
>         > > congratulations on having entered the waste processing
>         business! :)
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>         > Once you grind up the hard drive you could attempt to
>         recover the
>         > metals present using a combination of physical and chemical
>         methods.
>         > The metals should be a reasonable purity to sell .
>         >
>         > If limited metal recovery is done you probably will have D-
>         series
>         > (unless the EPA has a specific classification) hazardous
>         waste. I do
>         > not know the current prices for hazardous waste disposal.
>         But when I
>         > was handling waste disposal I found there was roughly a 10x
>         difference
>         > between the charges of non-hazardous waste and a hazardous
>         waste.
>         >
>         > Off topic stupidity, most people do not realize that
>         fluorescent
>         > lights should be disposed as a hazardous waste - mercury is
>         the
>         > culprit.
>         >
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>         > Jay Lozier
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