At 8:45 AM 7/18/00 +0000, Jose Dalisay wrote:
>i also wanted to move my 6.0 gig travelstar into my 2300c and got around the
>bracket problem by finally deciding to glue the old brackets in place along
>the sides of the travelstar, using good old-fashioned fast-setting, two-part
>epoxy. Not the most elegant solution and maybe even a dangerous one (you can
>imagine what a glue drop out of place, or what a 1 mm misalignment will
>do)--but it works beautifully. you do have to be very careful with the
>stuff, and to make sure that the bottom of the brackets lie flush with the
>bottom of the travelstar itself (i just let the whole thing rest and dry on
>a flat table top, pressing gently). then screw the drive onto the duo's
>magnesium frame as usual. of course this also probably means that your drive
>will be unusable for anything else but a duo, and i'm not sure yet what the
>long-term effects will be (will the epoxy crack from the heat generated by
>the drive)? so far so good, though--it's great to have that huge drive on
>the old machine!
I had a problem with installing a big drive in an SE/30, and ended
up using some 2" doublesided cloth tape I found at Boeing surplus in
Seattle. First time I saw anything remotely like this, so it may not be
generally available.
Paul
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