ANY great ideas on how to quickly destroy hardware chips? Memory in particular?

[mjunkaged]

Okay, so we all fix stuff for a living, but our customers don't want their internal network or address data left on hardware chips (memory, network cards, copier main boards). Anyone have or used a great fast way to 'clear' or render untretrievable (without pushing buttions/ factory reset, we're talking lots of broken hardware) data left on chips? I'm thinking very high heat, but the smell would be a bit toxic!! CATTLE PROD??? Okay that's my pick!

[Copier Addict]

Re: ANY great ideas on how to quickly destroy hardware chips? Memory in particular?

A hammer fixes everything

[D_L_P]

Re: ANY great ideas on how to quickly destroy hardware chips? Memory in particular?

Soaking them in a bin of salt water should corrode them pretty well. They would be useless but not as much fun as a hammer or heat!

[blackcat4866]

Re: ANY great ideas on how to quickly destroy hardware chips? Memory in particular?

I hope that you're not planning to resell these devices.

They do make very effective door stops. =^..^=

[mjunkaged]

Re: ANY great ideas on how to quickly destroy hardware chips? Memory in particular?

I hope that you're not planning to resell these devices.

They do make very effective door stops. =^..^=

No, only obsolete stuff that's getting disposed of! Unless someone makes me angry!! Just kidding.....

[blackcat4866]

Re: ANY great ideas on how to quickly destroy hardware chips? Memory in particular?

How about a plastic dish pan filled with 4 liters of Coca Cola? Have you seen what it will do to a steel nail? Phosphoric acid attacks most everything. =^..^=

[mjunkaged]

Re: ANY great ideas on how to quickly destroy hardware chips? Memory in particular?

How about a plastic dish pan filled with 4 liters of Coca Cola? Have you seen what it will do to a steel nail? Phosphoric acid attacks most everything. =^..^=

I wonder if it could eat the solder enough for the smd chips to fall right off the board? Try it , get back to us.....I gave up diet coke 2 decades ago, sugar coke 3 or 4!

[slimslob]

Re: ANY great ideas on how to quickly destroy hardware chips? Memory in particular?

For Ricoh, remove the NVRam and HDD and hand them to the customer. Of course you need to charge for replacement parts you are going to h ave to install in order to make the machine operational.

[NeoMatrix]

Re: ANY great ideas on how to quickly destroy hardware chips? Memory in particular?

Try a good, built tough, paper shredder for crushing the memory chips. A good shredder will crunch CD/DVD's without to much fuss.

[Vincent128]

Re: ANY great ideas on how to quickly destroy hardware chips? Memory in particular?

I wonder if it could eat the solder enough for the smd chips to fall right off the board? Try it , get back to us.....I gave up diet coke 2 decades ago, sugar coke 3 or 4!

Yes, a forced air heat gun will strip a PCB clean.

https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/H-915/Heat-Guns/Industrial-Heat-Gun?pricode=WY634&gadtype=pla&id=H-915&gclid=CMC8-q---dMCFQ-QaQod3ooCEw&gclsrc=aw.ds

also.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQBMdhVX8w_Q6J8UrEglvkg

[Phil B.]

Re: ANY great ideas on how to quickly destroy hardware chips? Memory in particular?

like it has been said... hammer time!

for HDD's I use a Philips head screw driver punching about 4-6 holes thru the casing and platters..

[spanky]

Re: ANY great ideas on how to quickly destroy hardware chips? Memory in particular?

Attach a ground to the ground pin on the chip and 24VDC on the other pins.

[Ctl-Alt-Del]

Re: ANY great ideas on how to quickly destroy hardware chips? Memory in particular?

Try a Hammer, if it's hard to access you can put an old Phillip's head screwdriver on the top of the chip and then use the hammer. All you really need to do is wedge something under the chip and pry it or a few legs off of it or break the board they are attached, no one is going to go though he trouble of rebuilding a chip to get someones fax address book.

Have fun smashing shit.

Or buy one of these: