On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:26:20 -0500 gene heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:21:07 PM kqt4a...@gmail.com did > opine: > > > On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, gene heskett wrote: > > > On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 06:35:36 AM charles green did > > > opine: > > >> get a CD that > > >> you dont want to listen to anymore, and cnc it out of that. and > > >> then paint it black. > > > > > > Now that might be (the old cd) a usable idea. I probably bin a 50 > > > pack a year of those, old data & distro's going obsolete mostly. > > > And that should be cheap enough even if I use a fresh cdr to > > > serve as a test developing tool. I don't recall ever seeing a cd > > > get hot enough to warp either. I can fine tune it 5 thou here, > > > and 5 thou there to optimize the design very easily. > > > > A hardrive disk? > > Glass? That doesn't sound like it would be easily worked. Really old > ones, alu maybe as I expect there's nothing gummy about that alloy. > I do have a drive or 6 that could be sacrificed on that altar > though. Packratitis is a serious disease, you could get killed in an > earthquake that way. :) > Ah! yes, but chrome plated glass is perfect for a photoetch job. If the disc is Al or steel with a chrome/nickel layer on top then machining should not be too difficult. Just my tuppence. Dave > > Cheers, Gene ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
