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Destroying an old cd-rom drive

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UnholyKnight

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The drive still recieves power, but it old, and im tired of it... anybody got any good ideas on how to kill it? I want to burn it up or make it catch fire.... something 1337. Any ideas?
 
Well, melting stuff is cool :D

Or strapping a quarter stick to it...

Homemade napalm may do the trick... easy to make too
 
homemade napalm sounds fun, but i did it before and it smelt horrible, wont hurt to do it again though
 
yeah...

add some lemon zest to it or something. lol. either way, smashing old busted stuff is fun. like my old packard bell 486. napalmed that guy
 
Originally posted by UnholyKnight
... I want to burn it up or make it catch fire.... something 1337. Any ideas?
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Why not splice a wall plug (110v or 220v) into the power connector?
:grin:
:D
 
"I love the smell of Napalm in the morning"

Be sure to videotape it

my vote's for throwing itoff the edge of a cliff...
 
Make some thermite and have at it. ;)

Or do what that one guy suggested, take a lamp cord/extention cord, cut it off, splice it onto the power connectors and plug it in (and stand 20 feet away in the process, if possible :D )

Toss it in an old microwave...

Tie it to the bumper of your car and go for a joy ride...

If all else fails, just throw it across the room as hard as you can...

Whatever you do, video tape it :D
 
I wonder if you increased the usual DC voltage to the drive (usually 12V to say 18 to 24V if you could get it to spin a CD fast enough to disintegrate it internally ---before the circuitry fry's itself of course. Might be interesting to have it spitting out flying chards of CD parts or something or perhaps if you could somehow remove the top cover to the CDRom and let it spin a few CD's up to speed and then somehow make them launch in the air (assuming they don't automatically do that by spinning up)
 
Originally posted by CVNet1
I wonder if you increased the usual DC voltage to the drive (usually 12V to say 18 to 24V if you could get it to spin a CD fast enough to disintegrate it internally ---before the circuitry fry's itself of course. Might be interesting to have it spitting out flying chards of CD parts or something or perhaps if you could somehow remove the top cover to the CDRom and let it spin a few CD's up to speed and then somehow make them launch in the air (assuming they don't automatically do that by spinning up)
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That sounds like a good idea. It would be cool to take the top off of the CD drive, then somehow cut up an old CD and use some epoxy or something to create "wings" on top of a normal CD (a few peices of plastic attached to the top of a CD at an angle so it catches the air). It would be cool to see if you could make it launch into the air :D

Or take apart a tornado case fan and replace the CD rom's internal motor with that :eek:
 
I left the back of my drive in-tact, ripped out all of the internals, and kept the face intact. Glued the phone and volume jacks to the face so it looks legit, and took off all of the plastic face-to-base connectors aside from the side ones and now it's used as a stealth stash :p

I'll try to get a picture.
 
Torch!! We were modding my friends case one night(DK logo in this damn piece of shit plastic piece of shit case - nasty ass shit). Anyway, we were taking a break and I had just gotten a little butane torch and we were looking for shit to burn so we burned an old cdrom drive. The metal got red hot and when we were done there were some cool burn patters on it. Don't stand down-wind from it though!
 
Before you do anything...Do this!!!

Crack a CD, insert it into the drive and get it to spin up...

It's destroy the drive and the disk...
 
Originally posted by Flipside
Before you do anything...Do this!!!

Crack a CD, insert it into the drive and get it to spin up...

It's destroy the drive and the disk...
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Hey that sounds like quite a lot of fun. I pulled a 56x drive out of a dumpster last week so I might try it. It works, but I don't have much use for it.
 
Originally posted by CVNet1
I wonder if you increased the usual DC voltage to the drive (usually 12V to say 18 to 24V if you could get it to spin a CD fast enough to disintegrate it internally ---before the circuitry fry's itself of course. Might be interesting to have it spitting out flying chards of CD parts or something or perhaps if you could somehow remove the top cover to the CDRom and let it spin a few CD's up to speed and then somehow make them launch in the air (assuming they don't automatically do that by spinning up)
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anyone catch the mythbusters where they broke cdr's by spinning them real fast (though i believed they used some sort of high speed motor, not an actual cd rom drive motor, they were testing the cd's afterall, not the drives)
 
Originally posted by tim
anyone catch the mythbusters where they broke cdr's by spinning them real fast (though i believed they used some sort of high speed motor, not an actual cd rom drive motor, they were testing the cd's afterall, not the drives)
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They used a dremmel...:)

The same happens if you put a damaged CD into a high speed drive. The drive places so much stress on the CD, it shatters under the force.
 
How would you like to be that cd-rom?

bury it in ur backyard and stick a hose in it so it can breate you jerk
 
Hey there...OK...goto thebroken (google it with no space) and get their latest vid...it shows a laptop being burned to hell with thermite and a detonator...D00d...fill that cd-rom up with thermite and put a trigger in it and stand back and detonate it...it'll burn at 3,000+ degrees!!! So very awesome...have a fire extinguisher handy...and for goodness sake make a vid of it and post it here for us all to see...AT LEAST take some pix...this is an AWESOME way to kill PC parts...THANX
C'YA :cool:
 
You now have enough ideas, now proceed with the execution and remember to video tape it!!!
 
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