Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

[George N. White III]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 13:27, Tom Horsley  wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:55:01 +0100
> Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> > not
> > easy to take apart - and not worth the bother :-(
>
> I always take apart old dead disks to retrieve the magnets, allowing
> me to kill time by building things like this:
>
> https://tomhorsley.com/hardware/solidoodle/solidoodle-kitchen-mag.html
>
> (an iFixit tool kit comes in handy for the weird screws on disk drives).

They are very useful magnets.   I keep a couple on the column of the my
drill
press to hold drill bits (the same drill press I use to make holes in
drives
being discarded) and others to hold tuna cans for parts while working on
bikes.