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| Thread ID: 79959 | 2007-06-07 04:43:00 | Broken hard disks needed - Christchurch | edf825 (9850) | PC World Chat |
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| 556879 | 2007-06-07 09:57:00 | The thread caused me to Google.... neodymium. Wikepedia has some very interesting points - loss of strength at 80 degrees, costs, toys, danger from ingestion (kids), effect on floppies etc. Interesting. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 556880 | 2007-06-08 05:32:00 | I have about 10 non working hard disks I can send you if you pay for postage (I live in auckland) I can take the magnets out of the drives to reduce the weight if you want. | Chrisn (9819) | ||
| 556881 | 2007-06-08 06:09:00 | Sometimes $2 shops have small magnets . Not super strong, but reasonable . Jaycars have some very strong, ones, but they aren't too cheap . . . . Maybe if the Homeland Security Act wasn't so strict, I could render the magnets out of them and post them . . that'd be cheaper . Are those magnets on the "Security Hotsheet"?It's interesting that it's illegal to send magnets by post, or transport them by air . Couriers have them on the banned list too . It's not a new thing . . . probably afraid of affecting magnetic compasses in navigation . I heard of a guy who had imported some magnetic mount antennas from China . Couriers wouldn't bring them from the airport unless he had them demagnetized . His reaction was not a happy one, and he finished up by taking a trailer to collect them himself . I wondered how the Chinese had managed to airfreight them . |
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