31 Oct
2007
31 Oct
'07
2:14 p.m.
On Wednesday 31 October 2007 06:40, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 22:04, Fred Cisin wrote:
Pretty much all screws in IBM equipment are metric sized. Just remember
5.5, 8, 10, and 13mm, and you'll be able to remove most screws in IBM
equipment that aren't flat-blade-only.
And then there was the time I was trying to pull apart an external floppy
enclosure so I could snag the drive to put it into something else...
There were four philips-head screws accessible from underneath, but the two
along the middle of each side were "tamper-proof torx"! I enlisted the help
of a friend, and had him throw those two away when he got 'em out.
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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M Dakin
> >
> This is why I have a small hoard of IBM Model M keyboards.
> > > All my
>
> I've been meaning to get a nutdriver that will get at the screws
> holding a Model M together so I can shoehorn a ps/2-usb converter
> inside. So far
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
If you're talking about those hex-head
screws, my answer is
simple: Snap-On Tools! :-) I just pulled a 5.5mm nutdriver out
of my toolbox, and it fits the screw head quite nicely, and
that's one of the recessed ones.
Is it 5.5mm, or 7/32"?