{"id":4120,"date":"2012-02-24T22:59:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T03:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=4120"},"modified":"2012-02-24T22:59:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T03:59:36","slug":"shattered-hard-drive-platter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/shattered-hard-drive-platter\/","title":{"rendered":"Shattered Hard Drive Platter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6768-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6768-scaled.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 title=\"Hard drive platter that inadvertently shattered when disassembling drives to collect neodymium magnets.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To collect <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neodymium_magnet\">neodymium magnets<\/a> for rebuilding the <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6714-scaled.jpg\">not-currently-great drip tray<\/a> to kegerator \/ kegged beer cooler <em>(photo gallery retired)<\/em> I started disassembling more old hard drives, attempting to salvage the magnets. When disassembling one drive I decided it&#8217;d be fun to bend the platter, but I (stupidly) didn&#8217;t pay attention to the platter material before doing so. The result? Tiny bits of broken glass and amazingly thin foil spraying all over the basement floor. Whoops.<\/p>\n<p>At least it was easy to clean up.<\/p>\n<p>I had little luck collecting useful magnets from the drives because some were too small, some drives only had one, and many of them shattered as I removed them. Instead I&#8217;ll just buy a bunch of tiny ones on eBay or Amazon and epoxy them on instead. It&#8217;ll be a lot easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To collect neodymium magnets for rebuilding the not-currently-great drip tray to kegerator \/ kegged beer cooler (photo gallery retired) I started disassembling more old hard drives, attempting to salvage the magnets. When disassembling one drive I decided it&#8217;d be fun to bend the platter, but I (stupidly) didn&#8217;t pay attention to the platter material before\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4122,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions\/4122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}