Punch a hole in them and recycle.
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Punch a hole in them and recycle.
+1Originally Posted by newracer
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We'll leave it up to you what is best used to punch the hole
a while back my employer mandated that HDD be erased using a specific method or destroyed if non-functional... they were specific that at least 3 holes of 3/8" or larger had to be drilled thru the platters...
they had not setup anything in-house to do this, they were leaving it to each Dept. to handle on their own.... Dept. didn't own a drill, so I got permission to take them home to destroy them- but they wanted them back as proof.
so I put three holes thru them at my mini-ranch (they were of the .30 caliber variety, but the hole wound up lager than 3/8" after expansion), and brought them back to the office to turn in... the IT guy was a bit amused but agreed it met the requirements.
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I see! I might be testing this soon.We'll leave it up to you what is best used to punch the hole
a while back my employer mandated that HDD be erased using a specific method or destroyed if non-functional... they were specific that at least 3 holes of 3/8" or larger had to be drilled thru the platters...
they had not setup anything in-house to do this, they were leaving it to each Dept. to handle on their own.... Dept. didn't own a drill, so I got permission to take them home to destroy them- but they wanted them back as proof.
so I put three holes thru them at my mini-ranch (they were of the .30 caliber variety, but the hole wound up lager than 3/8" after expansion), and brought them back to the office to turn in... the IT guy was a bit amused but agreed it met the requirements.
I'm a little paranoid though, I know there is no fuel left in these canisters, but I guess I'm a worrier.
We have shot full ones. No fireball yet, but they will fly at you sometimes due to the rapid decompression.
Partial or full, they don't "chemically" explode, but they do decompress. That is one of the things Homeland hired me to work on...shooting tanks. Someone "thought" a sniper could shoot a tank in a rack (like in front of a big box store, gas station, etc.) and they would create a bomb. Proven that wrong, on film at Clear Creek Range many years ago. The FD (just up from the range) was on site and hid behind the pumper next to the outhouses while we shot Propane Tanks. There are methods, which I can not write on an open forum, but they are not "simple" and that satisfied Homelands fears. So, in essence, you can thank me that propane exchange racks are still legal, because they were going to ban them.
The "plan" to prevent a massive explosion at a large bulk facility due to a nefarious attack was more interesting, and more complicated. Our plan (which is really just common sense) was rejected by Homeland for two installations, and then after they noodled on it for 6 months, approved and implemented.
Last edited by MarkCO; 12-19-2017 at 11:26.
Leave it at the Propane cage at Home Depot and run away?
Some campgrounds have bins where they will take old propane canisters to recycle. Don't know if there's anyplace in the metro area that can do that though. You would think with all the outdoors-people here someone would figure out a way to collect them.
I've always hated the waste of the disposable canisters - you almost never run them completely empty so you always end up throwing away some propane. Eventually I just got an adapter that lets me use a refillable 20lb canister with the camp stove and that's what we use.
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As already stated, the rapid decompression caused them to fly, aka shrapnel. Also, a few your back there was a fire near Eleven Mile Resv. that was attributed to someone shooting propane tanks.
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I am not going to do this but I am curious on distance and time....
Say a canister is full, what distance should be given for it to decompress safely?
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