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Weekend Project: Hard Drive Wind Chimes

Reuse a crashed hard drive or two for a set of wind chimes. Easy to make and sound great. Thanks go to Thomas Arey for the original article in Make Magazine.

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Check out the Hard Drive Wind Chimes article MAKE 12 "Hard Drive Wind Chimes" & You can see that in our digital edition.

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Posted by: Rob on July 26, 2008 at 11:13 AM

It should help keep birds off your patio too.

Pigeon poop is not fun.

Posted by: Scott_T on July 27, 2008 at 7:25 PM

Made one of these long ago...

and they got dirty and I cleaned them with some window cleaner and it ruined the shiny goldness on the platters. FYI.

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