do I destroy the disks by hand?
Glad you asked! It goes something like this:
A twist to the left...
A twist to the right...
And that would be enough to crack a cheap disk to pieces. 3M, Sony, and Verbatim disks sometimes needed a little Swiss love to convince them to open up.
It is then fairly simple to remove the magnetic disk and hub.
The hub is easy to remove from most disks. When the glue is good it's trickier.
I put 3 or 4 of these disks together and start slits in them with a scissors, then rip them into pieces by hand (no straight seams!)
This is the final product. The magnetic part gets tossed into a trash bag along with pieces of a hundred other disks. I have uses for the rest of it...
The plastic bodies (metal door optional) are very useful as shims to get my furniture up to the correct height. Maybe now I won't slouch so much at the computer.
The safety tabs, once they have the ends removed with a fingernail clipper, can be painted to make fantastic little pieces for one of my board games.
The metal pieces are extreme- ly useful. I just don't know yet for what. In the mean time they sit in a box by my desk, looking pretty.
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