[ale] Thermite party

[Greg Freemyer]

All,

Is there any interest in doing this as a group?  Maybe in March or April.

I really do have about 50 in-operative drives I need to destroy at
some point.  If 50 dixie cups of poor man's thermite can be had for
$100 or less, I'd be curious to try it out.  (fyi: P'tree Shredder
will shred them for $7/ea. so $350 is my worst case cost.)

We'd need to find a large area of dirt where the fire department won't
come shut us down I assume.

Anyone else have a collection of drives they need to destroy?

Is buying the chemicals going to put me on terrorist watch list?

Greg

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Mike Harrison <cluon at geeklabs.com> wrote:
>> with the eventual goal of physically killing them at some point.  (Is
>> it time for a ALE thermite party?  What's that cost anyway?)
>
> Poors Mans Thermite; Aluminum and Iron filings with a little Magnesium Fuse..
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> http://chattarati.com/neighborhoods/southside/2010/12/8/demise-vega-chrysalis/
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> Note the small thermite "sparklers" at the top of the effigy, but the
> video doesn't have the dixie cups of thermite that were along the
> central column.
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> A dixie cup of thermite on top of a hard drive should render it
> completely slagged and unreadable.  We'll have to experiment :)
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