Mikey Sklar has put together an interesting wallet, it is made out of hard drive platters. As you know we have a soft spot for anything made from Hard Drives here at Hacked Gadgets.
“I took apart a dead hard drive that I had dumpster dived last year initially for the magnets, but I could not take my eyes off of the platters. The magnet would just be trouble with my ATM card magnetic strips as well as sticking to everything else around. Using a rivet gun I was able to quickly adhere two car keys and my AAA card to the platters.”
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Be careful! Some hard drive platters are made out of ceramic and just explode like glass when bent or cut. I found this out the hard way. Thousands of sharp mirror like shards all over me and my workshop! It was horrible. I still cannot tell the difference between platters, so be careful!
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Hey Paul,
That reminds me of an episode of the Screen Savers where Patrick Norton is talking about ways of destroying data on a drive. He opens the drive and smashes it with a hammer. The platters were not metal, they were ceramic and shattered into thousands of pieces on the TV set…
That was the first time I had heard about ceramic platters (and I think that was the first time Patrick also found out about them).
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Is that key to an old mercedes-benz? Sure looks like one I had. I would bet a nickel it is.
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I might notice when you drill the holes, but it’s the first I’ve heard of them
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Ha! I have a ton of these from old hard drives but didn’t find a reason for them yet. You could sell these wallets on Ebay! ha! Big Money!!!!!!