Advice requested on proper disposal of Seagate ST3000DM001 disk drives

[Wayne S]

Be aware that a cheap way of making fairly pure oxygen is just by heating up manganese dioxide, which will cause anything that is a like a flame to burn much hotter. I remember doing an experiment in grade school where you heat up a tablespoonfull of MD in a test tube with an  alcohol burner or (even a match under the tube), then slowly insert a popsicle stick with a glowing ember (you light the stick with a match then blow it out to get the glowing ember). The result is that the stick bursts into flame rather violently.

Just saying "BE CAREFUL".





Wayne


> On Sep 20, 2018, at 9:39 PM, Alexandre Souza via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> Have you heard about a pointy hammer? :)
> 
> 
> 2018-09-21 0:37 GMT-03:00 drlegendre via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>:
> 
>> If you're that intent on firey destruction, it would be much simpler &
>> safer to use an oxyacetylene cutting torch, or a plasma cutter.
>> 
>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 10:20 PM Eric Smith via cctalk <
>> cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Anyone have advice on making thermite? Ingredients, sources, proportions?
>>> 
>>> The internet seems to think that just using aluminum powder with ferric
>>> oxide is relatively hard to ignite, and that some manganese dioxide would
>>> help with that.
>>> 
>>> Without spending too much time shopping, it looks like I can get:
>>> * aluminum powder, 5 micron, 2 lb for $34
>>> * ferric oxide, 10 lb for $27
>>> * manganese dioxide, 1 lb for $39
>>