[ale] Off Topic, hard drive shredder

Mon Aug 8 13:40:14 EDT 2011

Heh, heh! I probably have more firepower than most of my opposite political
pusuasion alers :-)
On Aug 8, 2011 9:05 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> wrote:
> Given the way some of the threads have gone here I'd prefer some ALErs not
have firearms. :-)
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> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Rich
Faulkner
> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 8:47 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Off Topic, hard drive shredder
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> Yeah, thermite...that was it!
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> 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?
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> 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
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> 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!
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>> 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.
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>> 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?"
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>> What happened ALE? <sniffle/>
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>> On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 11:42 -0400, planas wrote:
>> > Hi
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>> > 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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