If we have any crashed/irreparable hard drives around, would you be interested in them for parts? The electronic bits might be useful for people repairing other drives, but if the platters are not fixable, I don't have any issues personally donating them for art. (I actually sort of want to make a set of wind chimes myself out of some wrecked late 80s/early 90s 3.5 hard drives, but I need to make sure they're well and truly dead first. I have one quantum fireball where the big control chip lived up to its name, but the platters might still be good so I don't know...) On 4/17/2019 7:05 PM, Brian Brubaker via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
The 4 27" platters I got , I'm 99" sure someone previously removed the top layer from them as they now look silver not like the one in the link included below. My plan is to make 4 tables out of them, similar to the one in the link below, but with my own art added on top, in a clear resin epoxy.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://stupidevilbasta...
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 12:47 PM Brian Brubaker <brianbrubaker@gmail.com> wrote:
I definitely buy drives from ebay, and sometimes the drives are working. The two rarest drives/platters I've bought were a .85" drive, aka the smallest drive with moving parts, and 4 27" platters from an IBM 350. The majority of the drives I've bought are sold as scrap, the small percentage of larger industrial drives most all came from California. Most of these larger drives were listed for sale on e-mail for 6+ months, occasionally lowering their prices to a point where I could justify buying them. The other times I made offers and they accepted. Most of the time I ended up spending more on shipping then the drives themselves.
I started making my art out of a love of hard drives, I shared it here with the thought of all people this group might be able to appreciate what I'm trying to do. If I was wrong, I won't bother the group again.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:15 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I understood from one of his posts that he was purchasing drives on the market, for sometimes serious money. If I misinterpreted his statement, please let me know, in which case I will apologize and move
on.
-Dave
On 4/17/19 10:54 AM, Drew Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
No need to be mean to the guy. If he's using scrap parts then I don't
see
what the big issue is.
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 4:24 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On April 16, 2019 4:10:56 PM Brian Brubaker <brianbrubaker@gmail.com> wrote:
It seems you've missed my intentions, all I'll say is I thought of all people you all could appreciate my art, if I was wrong, I'm very sorry to have bothered you. I'm sure you are a talented artist. I for one would likely appreciate your art a lot more if you didn't destroy what I've worked for years trying to preserve when you create it.
At the very least you could learn something from the reactions you've gotten, but you don't seem to have that capacity either.
Before you start calling someone unintelligent you might want to avoid threats in a digital medium. Predictable. New to the net, too, I see.
...and, I take that as a threat!
-Dave
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