22 Jun
2005
22 Jun
'05
4:44 a.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Hang on though, a motherboard is a cheap(-ish) off-the-shelf component.
What do you do if a bearing goes bad? Do you buy a new bearing, or do
you build up the track with weld, grind it back, and have it hard chromed?
Me, I keep an SKF catalogue handy...
That actually sounds like an useful and easy thing to make. Something
like a big glovebox, possibly. You might not get your 14" drives in.
You may be able to adapt a sandblasting cabinet - it's designed to keep
dust *in*, so it should be OK at keeping dust *out*.
It's still not a lot of space.
Gordon.
harddrives go
up on me (Admittingly, IBM DEATHSTARTS), one
motherboard that ate ram for Breakfast!
Now, you see, I'd have wanted to figure out what was wrong with said
motherboard _before_ it damaged more than one set of RAMs. I understand
the urges to be able to repair your equipment,
but dosn't it stop somewhere? :)
I guess it does. I don't -- yet -- haev a clean room to repair
winchester-type hard drives. Although I have considered some kind of
'clean box' to work on the physically larger winchseters, like the 8" and
14" drives in some of my classics. Of course,
can't refute the argument about the internet
connection :)
Or the space. The dexktop area needed by a laptop and printer is not that
much smaller than that needed by a desktop PC + not-too-large monitor +
printer.