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This is a fun and easy way to make use of any old hard drives you have laying around.
Tools you'll need:
- A Medium sized flat head screwdriver
- A Small Phillips head screwdriver
- An Interchangeable bit screwdriver with Torx bits from sizes T10 to T5 (which sizes you'll use depends on the drive)
- Scissors
- Strong glue (something like Goop or super glue is fine, but nothing weak like white glue)
- A table vice and a pair of pliers, or two vice grips.
Tools you'll need:
- A Medium sized flat head screwdriver
- A Small Phillips head screwdriver
- An Interchangeable bit screwdriver with Torx bits from sizes T10 to T5 (which sizes you'll use depends on the drive)
- Scissors
- Strong glue (something like Goop or super glue is fine, but nothing weak like white glue)
- A table vice and a pair of pliers, or two vice grips.
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Signing UpStep 1Taking Apart the Hard Drive
In this step you'll be taking off the hard drive lid, exposing the important parts inside.
This step will require the use of your small Phillips head screw driver, and a few sizes of your Torx bit heads.
This step is pretty self explanatory. Simply remove all the Torx screws and regular screws you come across until you're able to open the lid of the drive. The lid is sometimes a little hard to remove due to the foam insulating the seal. Take the flat head screwdriver and pry it open from the side. If taking off the lid does not require that you dismantle the circuit board on the bottom, do so anyway, because sometimes the parts inside wont come out without taking off some screws from underneath.
The end result should leave you with an exposed hard drive.
(if you've begun on this step and donno what tools you'll need, see the intro for a list)
This step will require the use of your small Phillips head screw driver, and a few sizes of your Torx bit heads.
This step is pretty self explanatory. Simply remove all the Torx screws and regular screws you come across until you're able to open the lid of the drive. The lid is sometimes a little hard to remove due to the foam insulating the seal. Take the flat head screwdriver and pry it open from the side. If taking off the lid does not require that you dismantle the circuit board on the bottom, do so anyway, because sometimes the parts inside wont come out without taking off some screws from underneath.
The end result should leave you with an exposed hard drive.
(if you've begun on this step and donno what tools you'll need, see the intro for a list)
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A couple of warnings...
-Don't let young kids play with them. If they swallow them they can get hung up in their intestines.
-There is suppose to be something harmful about the raw magnetic material also. I don't remember what. And I'm too lazy to look it up again. :o)
I super-glue a slice of inner tube to one side of the magnet and trim it. Then I use your household goop glue to glue it to the dash of my truck. That glue is almost permanent. It can be removed if you want with out damage to the dash. With a small metal strip blued and glued to the back of my mobile phone I can almost throw my phone at it and it will catch and stay. No problems with road bumps either. (maybe I should make my first instructible with this topic)
Just peeled away 6 of' em, and I'll use 4 on this:
Bedini motor
http://www.instructables.com/id/EOYQ3UXFVXEV0FB0SB/