w00t, just won a hard drive for $.06 on e-bay. It's spinner time!

[AceTKK]

It's amazing how cheap old drives are.  This one is a 540 MB Western Digital whose bearing will soon be used in my spinner.  Are there any other good uses for old HD parts?

-Ace-

[Sasquatch!]

Make a clock using the drive platters as the face.  SUPER-BONUS if it's a 5.25" drive!

[anthony691]

There are really cool magnets inside. Make sure you have a T7 or T8 and a T6 as you will need these.

[hevnsnt]

Sweet, I actually get to add something to the site!

http://forums.anandtech.com

this is a website (forum) where thousands of computer geeks hang out.. In the FS/FT forum, you could get free hdd's any day of the week..

[Dak-ak]

i didn't have the torx drivers, so i used a drill bit! muahaha.. took the heads off of those mofos like super-duper acne cream... luckily, i had an allen wrench that sufficed for the 5 little torx screws around the actual bearing (whew)

[paigeoliver]

I pulled apart an old hard drive in an attempt to make a spinner once. But of course mine had to be TOTALLY different that all the other ones I had seen in pictures of the procedure, and I wasn't able to do it.

[AceTKK]

well it hasn't come yet but I've never met a screw I couldn't master.  I'm probably just going to drill them out rather than pick up a torx set.  

paigeoliver, did you just give up?  Didn't it burn you up knowing that the bearing was in there mocking you?  Just use a little force baby!

-Ace-

[paigeoliver]

Oh, I got the thing open just fine. I just couldn't use the bearing. The internal design of the thing was totally different than every other one I had ever seen. The hard drive casing was part of the bearing assembly. Hard to explain (plus it was like 2 years ago, so I don't exactly remember how it went).