Hard Drive Question

Originally Posted by TheDude80

George those are hard drive spacers. They sell on ebay from time to time, and yes it's made out of aluminum...

Thanks thedude80! I know the platters sell for platinum recovery, but never thought about anything else.

Will start saving them up too then.

Originally Posted by GeorgeB

Thanks thedude80! I know the platters sell for platinum recovery, but never thought about anything else. l start saving them up too then.

Theres a lot of 'words' here about the platters & Platinum, but no one has the real numbers about how much Platinum there is in a disc.

Someone worked out the amount in theory (miniscule, 2 cents or something), but their numbers didn't match mine. I just dissolved the inner Ali part of the disc in HCL acid & it left the slightly grey/blue/silver outer layer as a sheet.
My actual metal weight was way over what the weight in theory was.

But. People do buy them, most probably as bird scarers or such.

On the other hand, Mexican drug traffickers are buying the hard drive magnets............

Somebody will also buy the backing plates that the magnets are stuck to, its a special metal that has value if you have enough of them. (weight)

I dunno whats in the read/write arms. I expect I'd find something special because of what it does. (The equivalent of a Boeing 747 flying full speed, 2 inches above the ground, while counting the blades of grass it passes over)

The spacer? Sell it as a sock ring.