Advice requested on proper disposal of Seagate ST3000DM001 disk drives

[Bill Gunshannon]

Or just throw it in the garbage.  Do you really think people are going 
thru your

stuff looking for data?


bill



On 09/20/2018 11:37 PM, drlegendre via cctalk wrote:
> 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
>>