Hard Drive Disc Destruction - Copper Aluminum - ASMR Metal Melting - BigStackD Platter Perfection
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Hey guys n gals how are you awesome people today? A little bit of aluminium and copper melting today as I add another 3 kg to the stack which is great. Today I melt down a heap of hard disk drive platters sent to me by a subscriber and I get myself a few awesome bars of which I shine up one perfectly. That one mirrored bar in this Video took me around 60 minutes from start to finish. It’s very time-consuming making these bars look perfect but quite rewarding once it’s all done. Also today I do a couple of devil forge coins out of copper cable, they didn’t come out too great but they are nice big and chunky of which I’m very happy to put on the shelf.
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HOW TO MIRROR FINISH A BAR
I start with an 80 grit flap disc on my angle grinder then I use my drill with 50 mm round sanding discs . I start with 150 grit then go through the following Grits 240-400-800 Then once I get to the following Grits I use a small squirt of WD-40 1200-1500-2000-2500-3000. The WD40 helps to lubricate the discs and stops the sanding disk binding up with the metal powder . Then after that I use my buffer wheel on my bench grinder to get a perfect mirrored finish on it??????.
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Hard Disc Drive Destruction - Copper Aluminum - ASMR Metal Melting - BigStackD Casting Platters
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How are all you awesome people doing this week? A Quick thank-you to all who participated in the poll on my community page.With over 28,000 votes Nordic gold seemed to be the clear winner of your favourite metals to see. So be sure to tune in next week for some Nordic gold goodness coming your way. Also as I have mentioned previously I am in the works with a designer and will be getting some merchandise happening very soon for any of you who would like to support my channel. Thank you all again I hope you enjoy this weeks video and have a fantastic week ahead , BSD😁
First comment in here. Hello
11 minutes late
I started a new thread
I was going to ask if you had any merchandise out there to possibly purchase. Can't wait
bro i love how you post at midnight lol love your melts
I think this is the most secure way to protect data... MELT IT...
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Most secure way to get rid of the data you don’t want
Yep then cops cant find it etiher
I can just imagine BigStackD calling Drive Savers and saying that his hard drive was in a fire and he needed the data off it. And when he ships it to them, they'll open the box and see an ingot
@@thomasvlaskampiii6850 that would be funny.
So when i die, please clear my browser history and send my hard drives to BigstackD
Lol
@sebas Stein I love my browser history!
Hahahhaha good idea 😂
@Tano HDDs are more reliable. SSDs can't handle the reading and writing load nearly as long as an HDD can. Unless you're going to RAID them which will vastly improve the longevity of SSDs. But if you're building on a budget then a single HDD is the better choice for a PC.
Now in a laptop, the loss in longevity is balanced out by the reduced power consumption, so that may be better for you. Still, preferably you want to get a laptop that allows for 2 or more hard drives so you can raid the SSDs.
It cannot be understated the performance boost given by a proper RAID in place.
@Tano I don't quite think you know what you're talking about honestly. HDDs blow SSDs out of the water in terms of reliability. For every year an SSD can last, and HDD can last 2, sometimes 3 depending on the quality of the HDD.
SSDs are faster and more energy efficient. That's about it though.
As for RAID, it's something you can do with HDDs and SSDs. So even you with your HDD hating self should do it. It's more than worth it even if you go 0.
you reflect your country well with your videos. very organized. perfect timing in your editing. good teaching. im thankful you share!
Thank for this lession .Good job bro 👍👍👍👍👍
BigstackD offering new data destruction services.
Hey, I have this box in my attic called "Taxes" and "Incriminating Evidence" I need you Big stack!
I remove hard drive data without destroying them by over writing data over and over again to them trust me recovery services couldn't even get the data back
@@letsgetto1millwithoutvids actually, while you might remove data, you don't remove the header tags from a drive (a traditional, mechanical drive.) And doing that on an ssd kills the drive faster
@@fuckyouyoutube9579 correct on an SSD it does kill it faster but we're talking about HDDs and this is how governments wipe hard drives the standard for the FBI is 3-5 passes try recovering anything from that good luck
I'm not talking about formatting the drive if you know what I'm talking about then yh if not then I can explain
@@letsgetto1millwithoutvids I do and a format does a 1 pass of zeros. It doesn't remover header tags though, which whatever the title of the data that toy had on the drive can be retrieved.
Gutterman, the hard drive man himself has stated that modern disks are so dense that one zero out is enough to remove data from a drive.
Also, you don't even need to zero out the data. A simple overwrite from a cmd prompt that fills a drive erg dead data also works.
When she asks what I am watching: “Well, there is this guy, right. And he breaks stuff down and then, like, he melts the stuff and pours it in these moulds right. Then he puts the stuff onto a block of ice and then he drops a brick on it. And then he polishes it. And in between he also plays with his dogs and when he finishes he has a beer....”
She just looks at me like I am slowly losing it!
“slowly”
Broke it down to it’s simplest description.👍🏼👍🏼
Should Have just said "devil worship channel"
And he writes the metal prices in an unicorn notebook
Thats the simplicity of man. Lol we could enjoy something interesting and completely compartmentalize it from everything else! Cheers!!
"Cookies deleted successfully"
I personally love the look of copper, but all your ingots get such a beautiful finish!
From Dallas Texas 4 years watching and still addicted to da big stacked D
I just noticed that you write your prices even in Czech Crowns (CZK). Not many people from outside of Europe even know about us so you made me happy :)
dude Czech makes good fire arms.
i had a really nice CZ varmit rifle a few years back but had to sell to make a car insurance payment.
more people than you think knows about your nice little country.
If you use commas between dollars and cents you should be imprisoned
I have some Czech Crowns. Nice place to visit. Good beer.
Say goodbye to hard drive discs.
Say hello to...
*_...MEMORY INGOTS!_*
LOL
Data crystals 1.0 !!
@ElectroBrocoli Top quality joke here
I would buy one, something unique and different.
The purity of the Aluminium used in the platters really shows when you have almost no slag to skim off before pouring.
Yeah and some dort from the crucible
The surface of the discs contains some magnetic coating. I've heard it contains chromium, cobalt, platinum and not sure what else.
The quantity of platinum is very small and not worth recovering.
@@louistournas120 You're absolutely correct.
The discs fitting in the crucible like that was way more satisfying than it should have been.
Thought the same
There is something aesthetically pleasing about holding a solid bar of metal. Knowing that you reclaimed and cast it yourself must make it that much sweeter.
Just subscribed watch grade is that just mixed
The first poor of ingutts
Sorry The first pore the discs. l can't use this key pad on phone big daft lol an dislecsic
Giving a thumbs up for the Goonies Poster.
If you like the goonies matey then check out this video I did last week where I do a Copperbone key in copper as well as a goonies Plaque I’m sure you’ll enjoy it👌🏻😁
ruclips.net/video/FtB4bKVcOOE/видео.html
Things i've learned from bigstackD:
If you're ever having trouble melting your aluminum, just give it a good stir.
The aluminum was melting fine, its the platinum he had trouble with :D
@@ForestSongUnLTD HDDs have platinum in them?
@@vbgvbg1133 A super thin coating of it, yes. That's probably why he made a coin from the slag.
@@ForestSongUnLTD You'd have to refine it
R.I.P. "homework" folder
Or porn folder. 😀
@@MaxRager80 😂😂
@@MaxRager80 whoosh
@@MaxRager80 ain't nobody gonna talk shit bout my homeworks xD
He just destroyed about 80085 assignments.
The slag skull actually came out pretty cool; it looked like a casting of a much older skull, one that had been beaten, worn and cracked by the ages~
I love your work
Well I didn't expect that watching this is so satisfying... O M G how awesome.... O_o
*subscribed*
Welcome aboard!
As an IT professional, I really enjoyed this one!
Looks great buddy! I don’t think the coins came out that bad at all. 👍🏻🍻🍻🍻
Hi can you cast a metal toy car out of aluminum and maybe paint it a little
Hi
@@Blurayfurygaming I could but I have other things in mind 🤔
@@ArtByAdrock it's alright you can do it when ever you want
@@Blurayfurygaming maybe eventually, I’ll look into something like that 👍🏻
Has all the satisfaction of feeling like youre learning without the headache from actually learning
That's the beauty of "infotainment" :-D
IT guy: that's my data
Bigstackd guy: it's food for the forge🔥🔥🔥
Instead of blood for the blood gods and skulls for the skull throne, it's scrap metal for the metal forge! 😅
Something very pleasing about watching scrap metal being melted down to make something of value, thanks
When you use your 3D prints, you should smooth over a thin layer of wood filler with your fingers. When it dries just lightly sand off the chunks. I've found that it helps remove layer lines, and might improve the quality a bit. I use this method for making D&D mini terrains, afterwards I spray it with primer and it looks pretty great.
I actually really love the slag skull it’s so imperfect with cracks and uneven surfaces it really looks like an old buried piece of treasure and fits the whole skull vibe. Really great work man!!
Now this is the quality content I've been cooking for.
Me: I wonder how much evidence he is destroying for someone...
As Reese(Malcolm in the middle) would say, "No evidence. No prosecution."
no one would send their totaly fine working drives, they were all either broken or corrupted hence making them useless
JINXY or Hillary's
@@jinxy7869 or just really old, what else you gonna do with a 1 or 2 gig drive?
@@tarrantwolf the oldest one i got is atleast 500 gb
This channel is worth it for the sped up hammering alone.
Sleepy Doggies are best doggies. Always glad to see what can be made out of stripped down things.
Perfect wipe of data, I really liked the slag skull and those coins were nice! keep it up
You know, if you go back through your entire list of videos and number them all in the title and put them in a playlist, you'd probably get a whole lot of binge watchers.
Probably people have already been binge watching since the first lockdown back in march 2020 (woah, it passed a year!)
Lmao I binge watched them all in 3 days back in July. Look forward to his vids every week
Your dogs have the most laid back personality
i enjoy watching your vids bro , i like your style
The song of ice and fire, at 6:20, still one of the most beautiful displays I've ever seen
Today's title should be, "Melting Memories Away"
Kinda like Joe Biden
@@squirlboy250 He wouldn't know how to get the furnace lit. That kind of stuff is what the Clinton foundation is for.
It’s all just a burning memory
Plot twist: one of the disk he meltdown is the disk from the lost Crypto Currency one that worth like billions now.
Lol wouldn’t that be funny...
Reduced to the spot price for impure aluminium.
@@benwinkel actually it still technically exists, it just can’t be accessed or seen...
And even if it were one of them, it would be worthless as soon as the hard drive was opened
They were the discs that had the proof reptilians secretly rule the world.
I just want to give a big thumbs up to the best organizing system labels ever! "Sanding Shit boxes 1 -4" and "Craft Crap" 🤣😂 I love your channel. You're my Zen.🧘💕
Your little sweet potatoes are just absolutely freaking ADORABLE!!! I love them😍 And you can tell they love their dad.😊
Watching copper and aluminum cool is one of the most fascinating things as you watch the structure of the metal rapidly crystalize.
NSA be like "yeah, we can still recover the data."
When you get up early for a big stack of melting satisfaction ;o
when you stay up late to watch some meltin ;0
I work nights, sleep at daytime. If I have the night off, I stay up binge watching bigstackd, AvE, art by adrock, Demolition Ranch, watch jrgo,
That what she said!
Why not look at investing in a Milling machine, to clean the surface, gives chips instead of dust, and is not contaminated with sanding and grinding compounds, and only needs a polish once machined.
With a nice sharp flycutter you can get some lovely finishes. And they'll stack nicer, too!
That’s removing too much material that will need to be reprocessed, also just needless time and labor, never mind an expensive machine. The ingots are not a finished product, just an efficient way of storing material for future use/sale.
Really Appreciate
I Watched A Video Accidently
After That I Watched All Of Your Videos In One Week
Good Work Keep It Up
LMFAO first video iv seen from you and i must say really entertaining. And Pugs are stupid fkn cute. My brother had a Pug and it would run up to people like it was having a torets fit or something then sneeze.. lol.
BigstackD really out here flexing on us with that beautiful Australia weather, as all of America is freezing over and I have 5 feet of snow outside my house rn.
All of America? We just hit 90 yesterday here in Arizona lol. Send some of the cold weather our way, I’d gladly take some of that snow for ya!
All the snow is melting here in the Great Midwest! 👍
Then you must be in Texas buddy
Texas Night Owl representation, reporting in.
Get back to work!
I love when he cuts the petrobond, it looks like a nice chocolate cake
I just love it when the whole thing ignites like that, really adds to the whole devil angle, you could make a metal box instead of wood but now I think it would be at the cost of that visual aesthetic.
Awesome video bigstackD. I love the way molten copper looks. It is amazing. Thank you for keeping the videos coming. Stay safe over there
Awesome. Finally a good video to watch before I go off to cadets
The only thing we all hate about this channel is this dude doesn’t melt more than 10 kilos every week 🙃
This man can solve the today's aluminum shortage
I had never seen a data leak like this one 😂
Been watching this guy for 2years man 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾 keep it stack
13:46 "magnet in a cup" for picking up steel. I use a magnet in a plastic bag so that when I'm done, I turn the bag inside out leaving the steel IN the bag, and the magnet outside, but clean.
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Hey everyone, have a nice day and/or night.
GRANT REQUEST FOR SCP-682 TERMINATION ATTEMPT VIA EXPOSURE TO SCP-610.
@@ballincantgetup4684 Denied, we can't risk either of those escaping.
This is DEFINITELY one of my favorite videos, I am a computer guy, and have Kgs of computer parts I want to melt down, I was particularly excited to se what was going to be done with the platters.
It may be that one of the other subscribers can answer my question ❓ of why these videos are so satisfying nearly 💯 percent of the time ☯️
Top notch relaxing audio/video stimuli bro 👌
This looks like a dangerous hobby for me lol. I would go all out into this.
this guy is so underrated. i watch videos on his channel whenever im feeling stressed, and it really mellows me out. i truly love watching this kinda stuff because you can always find beauty in garbage. Keep rockin my friend✊
Cheers buddy I appreciate that👊🏻😁
So you basically watch his videos when you have a mental MELTDOWN?
“Scooped slag skull”. I think that might be the cause of my problems.... 😊
Very nice work.👏👍
I like the Pugs too.
Dude you are the liquid metal Jedi. Fan for life right here!!
D are you sure this video was almost 18 minutes? It felt like 8 minutes to me. I guess that's because I really enjoy watching you do your thing. I loved the mirror finished bar as usual and everything else came out fine as far as I'm concerned. Even the slag skull. Great job by an awesome guy who happens to be my favorite!!! ❤✌
Looking forward to Nordic gold next week! 😍
"Always heat your skimmer" - yup, I'll remember that next time I'm doing this.
Lol
Next time
Great show .. I’ve been wondering how well those platters melted..thank you 👊🏻
Bro I got a problem, I'm addicted to these
I have been watching for a few weeks learning alot love the vids I have found a new hobby awesome, your work is phenomenal
Oh my. The flames from the ice.. I didn't think it would be hot enough to split the water into Hydrogen and Oxygen.
Those HDD platters arent just aluminum, perhaps some exotic platinum reaction?
Good observation! I noticed that too.
Yes, the platters in hard drives are usually plated in platinum. Not sure if platnium reacts in such a way in those conditions. Its usually pretty inactive and has a very high melting point. Its likely mostly in the slag which is why I think the slag was very pasty and wouldnt pour.
@@robertbeighter6336 The Cobalt in the alloy reacted with the water to form Cobalt Oxides. I hope he was wearing a respirator.
I still have almost every hard drive from every PC I have owned, a couple might be missing at most. It's a couple of shoeboxes full. I wonder if I can still get any data off them...
Using a pc app called "recuver" id say most likely.(its essentially a free basic version of what the cops use fyi)
plug em into your pc and find out if they spin up
They should all still work if you have the right hard drive ports for them
@@southaussiegarbo2054 Thanks, man.
@@rupertmiller9690 its a tip i got a few years ago when at school still from one the IT GUYS (Cheers to greg) so he saved my rear end a couple times with his support and instal for it.
0:45 Plot Twist: The CIA has been looking for these for a while and he just destroyed the information for free bitcoins.
They are freaking brand new
@@neelo420 How would you know 🤔
@@neelo420 they prob aren't. Hard drives are assembled by robots to reduce the amount of impurities in the drive, and generally opening them up can ruin the hard drive
One effective way to destroy confidential data for good
Guard dogs they’re not, too cute to be vicious . Great channel. Very relaxing.
Recyclers make $16 for all this metal and hard work finding and scraping, but he makes like $20,000 PER video lmao. I love the economic system. Lmao 😂
You may love the economic system, however, you clearly don't understand the RUclips ad revenue system or how YuoTube monetizes videos. CLEARLY, bigStackd is not making $20,000 per week posting 1 video each Friday.
@@sjagain can you please break it down to me then? And can you also include Patrons? Thank you
I think the slag skull is Made mainly of platinum and aluminium 👍
Platinum melts at almost 2000 degrees higher than aluminum
@@donniebrown2896 The magnetic coating on a hard drive platter is a Cobalt, Chromium, Platinum alloy with a melting point of around 1300 centigrade. it is however 'dough like' at temperatures over 650 centigrade.
So interesting point of info on those platters, i'm fairly certain you could recover precious metal's from that slag due to the sputtering process used to coat them. Unsure of how much you could recover but with a decent amount of them might be worth while.
I had been thinking the same thing 🤦♂️
They have platinum on them but it's soo thin you would need 10x what he had to get enough just to pay for the chemicals required to extract the platinum.
@@mewmewdesigns895 Yes its a very tiny amount. But I think it was the platinum contamination that made the ending slag so thick he had to spoon it into the mold.
6:50 you need to do a melt of all those bottle caps 🍺
Endlich weiß ich jetzt, was das für Scheiben sind! Ich fand mal 4 im Gelben Sack und habe sie dann an Nylonschnur als Mobile aufgehängt. (Die haben sich stets gedreht.)
Wenn dann die Sonne draufschien, gab das so schöne Reflexe.
Als ich dann umzog, habe ich sie in der alten Wohnung gelassen, weil sie den Nachfolgern so gut gefielen.👍🏻
Die wussten damals auch nicht, was das ist.
"sit back and relax"
I'm literally doing my math homework and watching this
huh weird, i would have guessed hard drive platters were made of some kind of steel since they have to be ferromagnetic.. but it seems they are made from aluminium with just a thin magnetic coating.. nice ^^ (the coating is probably that stuff you can see at 2:30 i guess)
I thought it was palladium
The "melting Muppet" thing gave me a giggle
Loved the 2 sided coins 🪙👍🏼⭐️
Awesome videos, ive always wanted to do something like that. Plus your pugs (im sorry if im wrong) are soo cute!
Keep making awesome vids!😁
Hey there. Great videos! I see you put the copper on ice. I'm not sure if you are aware but copper actually turn softer when you cool it off fast. Letting it cool off slow toughens copper. Keep on melting and love the videos.
Since Im here actually early can you please answer my question. When are we gonna see a video of you re-stacking your shelves because I’d love to watch that.
His name is BigStackD not BigRestackD 😉
Seriously underrated comment
He said it’s coming soon 🙏
I need a relationship as strong as that dudes shelf
Darn, those platters are so beautiful, perfect mirror circles, I wish there was a good re-use for them, like maybe in some art, or maybe one could make a solar collector oven etc. with them. But of course, you do you :)
Hard drive discs, as far as my secondhand knowledge from like 2014 goes, are pretty common. You could probably find some on the internet easily and use them for art if you want.
If this was an rpg game you'd be rich with your whole collection, love your videos man cool stuff
классное хобби! знать что в душе ты обладатель сокровщь и это тайна !
My mom: make soup in a hot day
Me: burnt my mouth try to drunk it*
My mom: come on, the soup are don’t to hot...
The soup: 9:49
A short while later, blowing on ice cream-
Brain-“Food is very temperature!”
Also brain-“I know what to do, I learn from soup!”
BIGGY that's nuts look at all those disks and a lot of aluminum came out of those sweet. So BIGGY beer Caps are they made of steel or aluminum i don't drink beer so I don't really know I would think steel but if not YOU SHOULD DO A MELT ON THEM i think that be awesome 👍😎🇨🇦👍😎🇨🇦👍😎🇨🇦
You are really great in smelting metals my friend, one of the best so far.
Wonderful videos. very interesting.keep going. Greetings from portsaid Egypt
You asking "how old" we are in the video description was probably just an autocorrect lol but we ARE getting old! Have you noticed how quickly Friday comes around again?!? I guess I'm just getting older (pushing 40 lol) but damn the week has started to feel like it's only 3-4 days long 😅
What If you cast the top half of a Terminator, like a T-100, in aluminum and then set in in one of the bar molds and poured copper around it like it was melting? It would be cool to see some unmelted stuff mixed in with melted stuff.
0:52...Forehead reveal on the CDs😅⚡
It's been a while since I saw your films Big D. Tempted back by the subject matter, I'd also forgotten how calming it is watching metal being melted and poured/pawed (the last one's for Ingot).
All my collected computer bits, the eye candy stuff, motherboards and the stainless CD stuff all got made into art, mounted on 4 big sheets of hardboard.
I'd love to melt stuff but don't have the gear so I carve in stone outside the man-cave with my dog, Priscilla the turkey and her 2 small bantam garden crew audience.
Our 3 lock-downs haven't been so bad for our bubble but we'd all be lost without our feather and fur companions, who have so much faith and trust in us,
and ever such a pity when people break that trust.
All the best from England.
Cheers Pete I appreciate that mate👊🏻😁. Hopefully you’re back for the long haul but I don’t mind if you just drop in sporadically when you get a chance that works as well👌🏻
I do love the look of the copper after it is poured.