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What an awesome idea. Something I'll can totally do, complete with blood.

as per the comments on instructables, and hackaday -
those platters are really designed for high speed, non-stress

as you say with blood, if one exploded, you'd be in for some hurtin

sweeet!

Yeah having used angle grinders for quite some time, I can attest to how dangerous it is to put lateral load on thin high speed discs. They've hit me in the body before too, but usually the coveralls I wear absorb the impact fairly well. The worst one I saw was coworker A's disc shattered and a chunk flew 40 feet hitting co-worker B's gloved hand and he needed a bandaid, had a serious bruise and gimped finger for a week.

I just took apart my first hard drive. I always ditched them when they previous ones went bad.

Didn't realize the discs were so thick. n/m about lateral flexing. I'm sure you could park a truck on the plates before they bent or cracked.

They always shatter in my experience. Like using liquid nitrogen to smash tennis ball.

yeah i think they're very brittle or not maleable... whatever is the right word....

not strong. (malleable fits, but not what you're thinking)

LMAO- did you notice almost all of the dead hard drive pictures appear to be Seagate/Maxtor

That looks fun. Risky, maybe, but fun. Looks like a great way to get a grinder for precision work (as in fine grinding), but I wouldn't want to put too much pressure on it, due to shatter risk.