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Michael Cecil
*TimDaniels*
Ah, so you are Ron Reaugh. I should have guessed.
*TimDaniels*
Not cynical at all. Just paying attention. When people deliberately
pull at my heart strings is when I'm on the highest alert.
You know, if I were cynical, I'd say you were fishing for
personal information from off those hard disks. In any event,
the magnets in a hard disk drive aren't very strong, and your
son can get a lot more effective magnets elsewhere.
*TimDaniels*
Timothy Daniels said:<grin> "We"?
"Troll"? Roddy, is that you again?
crypto said:The magnets have nothing to do with the write head. They are used to
move the heads along with the voice coil winding. Take a drive apart
and you will see how it works. Also, try looking up rare-earth
magnets. These magnets are so strong that they can cause a lesser
magnet (ferrite type) to reverse it's field. I have done this myself
with a magnet from a hard drive. It totally wrecked a small ferrite
magnet that was brought in close contact in only 30 seconds. The
ferrite magnet was from a small electric motor.
Oh miserable is the lot of the hapless Newbie, led astray to think that
he can't gererate power with an old hard drive.
Scott Alfter said:I smell a * PLONK * coming...