A shot of the gap between the nozzle and drive cover.

I wanted to check out the collateral damage, so I had this old PC take one for science.

Alright, showtime!

Here's a shot of the aftermath. Pretty crazy compared to the clean and shiny pic from 10 minutes prior.

I didn't notice while I was filming, but apparently the thermite blast was hot enough to instantly desolder components from the motherboard and blow them out of the case.

A shot of the thermite container.

I was originally worried that it might exploded or take off like a rocket, but amazingly it didn't suffer any damage at all aside from the charring. Hell, if I had more thermite, I could probably reuse it.

Here you can see where the thermite blew out around the top, resulting in the huge fan of molten iron in the video. In hind sight, I should've added more screws.