On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 13:27, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:55:01 +0100
Erik P. Olsen wrote:

> not
> easy to take apart - and not worth the bother :-(

I always take apart old dead disks to retrieve the magnets, allowing
me to kill time by building things like this:

https://tomhorsley.com/hardware/solidoodle/solidoodle-kitchen-mag.html

(an iFixit tool kit comes in handy for the weird screws on disk drives).

They are very useful magnets.   I keep a couple on the column of the my drill
press to hold drill bits (the same drill press I use to make holes in drives
being discarded) and others to hold tuna cans for parts while working on
bikes.

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George N. White III