Rare-earth magnet recycling– An awesome HDD disassembly tool, sure, however we likewise have a bigger international requirement for magnets.
Kevin Purdy – Apr 12, 2024 6:14 pm UTC
Expand/ From magnets we came, to magnets we return.
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There is the psychological image that many people have of electronic devices recycling, and after that there is the truth, which is shredding.
Less than 20 percent of e-waste even makes it to recycling. That which does is, if not gotten through IT property personality (ITAD) or identified by an employee who sees some worth, heads into the shredder for raw metals extraction. If you’ve ever explored an electronic devices recycling center, you can see on your own just how much of your things ultimately gets chewed into bits, whether due to style, to unprofitable reuse markets, or large volume issues.
Conventional disk drives have some important things inside them– case, cover, circuit boards, drive assemblies, actuators, and rare-earth magnets– however just if they prevent the gnashing teeth. That’s where the DiskMantler can be found in. Garner Products, an information removal company, has a device that it declares can process 500 hard disks (the HDD kind) daily in a manner that leaves a drive separated into those helpful parts. And the DiskMantler does this by shaking the important things to death (video).
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Place the drive into the DiskMantler like you’re sentimental for the VCR days.
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The DiskMantler shakes the drive up until the screws fly out of the important things.
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The taken apart drive pops out or arrive at a conveyor belt.
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The part that the DiskMantler breaks down to.
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The DiskMantler itself, which requires an air supply and power.
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The DiskMantler, utilizing “shock, harmonics, and vibration,” vibrates most drives into pieces in between 8– 90 seconds, depending upon just how much separation you desire. Bonded helium drives take about 2 minutes. The fundamental science for how this works originated from Gerhard Junker, the completely called German researcher who totally checked out the power of vibrations, or “shear filling perpendicular to the fastener axis,” to loosen up screws and other fasteners.
As Garner’s primary worldwide advancement officer, Michael Harstrick, informed E-Scrap News, the gadget happened when a customer required a method to extract circuit boards from drives attached with exclusive screw heads. Prying or other damage would have been too disruptive and possibly destructive. After checking various power levels and periods, Garner came to a harmonic vibration gadget that can take apart basically any drive, even those with more welding than screws. “They still split up,” Harstrick informed E-Scrap News. “It simply takes a bit.”
Improving the healing and arranging ease of disk drives is itself a helpful thing, however the capacity for rare-earth magnet recycling is especially appealing.