Advice requested on proper disposal of Seagate ST3000DM001 disk drives

[Bill Degnan]

I can only assume someone is paying you to do this for insurance or legal
purposes.  There is a good poem, "John Barleycorn Must Die" which has a lot
of useful suggestions.
bill

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 8:04 AM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> Or just throw it in the garbage.  Do you really think people are going
> thru your
>
> stuff looking for data?
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> bill
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> 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
> >>
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