On Wednesday 01 June 2005 08:06 am, Johan P. Lindstrvm wrote: > The military (at least in Sweden) bakes a Trotyl / Pentyl cake with > the drives as stuffing, don't know if that would change the magnetic > properties but most likely make the process of collecting/organizing > the pieces of the same drive quite labourious. > > I read an article on encasing your drives with Magnesium and > Aluminium-Oxide and hook it up to the power supply through some > programmable circut to remotely melt your drives, this would create a > plasma at some 3000+ Celcius. Cant seem to find it again though... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exothermic_reaction >
You are might be thinking about using something like thermite. (Please note that thermite is dangerous stuff to play with because it does reach around 3000 C.) An oxy-acetyleme torch would be just as effective and a whole lot safer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite Tim Donahue
