DIY Magnetic Parts Tray

[nicklmg]

Amazon: http://geni.us/35rf
NCIX: http://bit.ly/25bQRbK

 

Magnetic parts trays are AWESOME, and everyone who builds PCs should have one... But rather than buying one, you may be able to build one yourself!

 

 

[Octavialicious]

But they're like $2 

 

still curious to see, though! looks interesting  

[FourCorners]

Thanks Nick!

[mikat]

Wow, really handy

[TheWoollyMammoth]

I didn't find this useful at all. Not in the slightest bit.

 

But I did find this entertaining, which is pretty much why I'm here anyway. Soo... thumbs up!

[comicsansms]

Erh, I don't think I want to do that.

Having a pile of dying/dead 80GB IDE WD Caviar SE's is worth more to me than no dying/dead 80GB IDE WD Caviar SE's.

Then again, I am a hoarder.

[Snorlax]

 

Sorry, Slick. I had to create this and you know it.

[Nardella]

I recently took apart a bunch of hard drives, for some reason I thought it was a good idea to peel off the labels entirely, turns out you can dizzy/high from the fumes that are released when you peel away those labels. I stopped doing that pretty quick.

 

Apparently using a heat gun makes this easier and less fumey.

 

I have kept the platters, gonna try and integrate them into a case mod or art piece of some kind.

[AWinchester]

would you look at that i was wondering what to do with my hard drive that died a few weeks ago

tanks luke

[Vivilacqua1]

why does this come out right as my hdd dies?

[DXMember]

I made the sorting cardboard thingy...

but now my D:\ drive with all my family photos are gone,

help pls

[Okjoek]

On 5/19/2016 at 2:42 AM, nicklmg said:

Amazon: http://geni.us/35rf
NCIX: http://bit.ly/25bQRbK

 

Magnetic parts trays are AWESOME, and everyone who builds PCs should have one... But rather than buying one, you may be able to build one yourself!

 

 

Do you know at what temperature these magnets could be melted? an idea expanding upon your theme would be to melt the magnet into a mold that covers more surface area.

[HeyKitty]

How do you split the magnet off of the metal piece so the it'll lay flat?

[Nardella]

15 hours ago, Okjoek said:

Do you know at what temperature these magnets could be melted? an idea expanding upon your theme would be to melt the magnet into a mold that covers more surface area.

I'm pretty sure that any temp that could melt these magnets would demagnetize them.