How to easily separate magnets from the metal backing of a hard drive

Anyone who has ever disassembled a computer hard drive knows that it contains a pair of excellent and strong neodymium magnets. They are very good to use for your various crafts. But the fact is that these magnets are tightly glued to a piece of metal. And you can’t just tear them off. They usually split when separated. But there is one secret that will help you when extracting them.

Will need

You need to get two large universal adjustable wrenches. The bigger, the better. Since with their help it will be necessary to create a large breaking force. Accordingly, the lever has direct significance.

Separating neodymium magnets from the metal substrate

We clamp the ends of the metal substrate with keys without touching the magnet itself. It is not glued to the entire surface, but there is metal protruding at the edges, so we take hold of it.

Next, we forcefully bring the keys together, thereby bending the metal of the substrate.

Now you can peel off the neodymium magnet without much difficulty.

Very powerful specimens, perfect for my crafts.I have a lot of old and broken hard drives, so I decided to disassemble them and use the necessary parts.