[Leica] Cleaning a Hard Drive

[r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)]

I'm glad to see I'm not alone.  I had two to "clean."  I clamped them 
into a large vise one at a time and flailed away with hammer and 
chisel until they succumbed.  Since the two I had to "clean" were 
only about a week old, there was considerable personal cleansing 
involved in the process, too.  ;-)

>Several days ago there was a thread about cleaning a hard drive 
>before releasing it to salvage.  I decided to "clean" a failed 
>Western Digital Caviar drive because Dell is conducting a one-time 
>pick-up of all brands of computer hardware in Nashville on Saturday. 
>I tried the 8-pound hammer approach and was amazed at the toughness 
>of the metal top.  Because I did not have a Torx driver small enough 
>to open the case, I hammered it until it split, then put in a vise 
>and used some other tools to distort the disk itself.  See the 
>results below.
>
>Jim Nichols
>Tullahoma, TN USA
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Hard+Drive.jpg.html
>
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Regards,

Dick