On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 07:44:23PM -0400, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > Take a staple gun and "park" the disk? > > For really high RPM disks one of course would need a nail gun. Nail guns are fun. [Anything that needs to be powered by gases seems to be more fun than anything electric. I've yet to play with tools powered by internal combustion engines ...] But I'm sure what would happen if you fired a nail through a spinning disk. Rather than the nail punching cleanly, would the platters shatter? Nicholas Clark