Compaq 9000 Series Rack Screws

Ali cctalk at ibm51xx.net
Tue Mar 27 12:13:46 CDT 2018


> In my case it was a simple job to chuck a few of the screws in the
> lathe and skim the heads down by 1 or 2 mm overall diameter, but it
> would not have been much more effort to put them in a an electric drill
> chuck and hold a file against them. If you can't find the correct ones
> perhaps you could try that approach.

Steve,

That is my backup plan. I am hoping that with all of us hoarders...err I mean conservationists somebody has screws laying around ;). Failing that and if I can't find something new that is suitably sized I would go with the file down route.

-Ali



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