How about this for a CD destroyer - an old CDROM drive. Remove the control board and cut all the tracks to the spindle motor controller's input pins and the tray/lasersled motor controller's inputs. Remove the big controller chips for good measure. Now remove the laser module and gut it. Cut off a piece of coat-hanger wire (or similar) and sharpen it. Fit the wire into the laser module, check the height (put an AOL CD in the tray) and stick it in with 5-minute epoxy. Add a microcontroller to the mix - work out how the mechanism works, what each switch does, etc. Write a bit of code to eject the tray when the eject button is pushed and run a destruction cycle when the play button is pushed and the tray is closed. Destruction head scans over the disc a few times, data layer gets reduced to slivers of plastic. What you should be left with is a plastic disc. Frisbee! Yes, I am going to do this. There's a dead Samsung drive on my desk just begging to be converted into something mildly useful. Later. -- Phil. | Acorn Risc PC600 Mk3, SA202, 64MB, 6GB, philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com | ViewFinder, 10BaseT Ethernet, 2-slice, http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/ | 48xCD, ARCINv6c IDE, SCSI ... WindowError:009 Horrible bug encountered. God knows what happened.