On Jun 22, 2:12*am, mm wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:48:56 +0000 (UTC), Elmo

wrote:
What are the shiny CDROM-sized platters in an old desktop disk drive made
out of?

I glued two of them together so that the offset covered the center hole to
use as an indestructable traveling shaving mirror.

A friend said they won't pass TSA security but they're not sharp. They are
just really shiny and really flat.

What are they made out of anyway?

I've taken them apart but I didnt' try bending them. *If you really
think the tsa will complain, bring another one you can bend for them.
Maybe that will help, if they really do complain. *Or bend the double
one you're bringing and use the bent part as a stand.

On Leno tonight, Headlines. someone was photographing a pedestrian,
but he turned his head away and put a file folder between his head and
the camera. *Unfortunately the glass window behind him gave a perfect
reflection. * Something he might not have known from his vantage
point!

Any HDD I've taken apart I'd be concerned about from a safety
standpoint... the platters don't "bend" at all, and if you try too
forcefully they will explode into a whole mess of tiny, sharp shards.
Good if you're trying to destroy one that you're decommissioning; not
so good if you've packed it with your underwear.

nate