Thanks Don, that's very useful info. Now to find a source for those
sizes.
Tom
On Jan 18, 2006, at 6:55 PM, Donald Parsons wrote:
Tom,
This is a message about Mac G3 screws a couple of years ago, also on
this
G-List. I am not sure that the G4 screws are the same but I have heard
that they are. I hope this helps.
Don
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Beige G3 DT auxilliary cooling fan question
Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:46:01 -0400 (EDT)
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In a message dated 10/10/03 9:35:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<<It's an 60mm fan, and you would bolt it through the holes (1/8th inch
bolts I think).>>
That would be 6-32 UNC or M3.5-0.6, but M3.5 has been obsolete for
about 20
years, not withstanding Apple's use of this size as a metric stand-in
for
the quite similar 6-32 UNC.
(Incredible that Apple would standardize on M3.5-0.6 in 1984 ... with
the
introduction of the Mac 128K ... yet only a year later that size was
consdered archaic by the ISO).
Word to the wise ... Apples are metric machines, and the only place
you'll
see UNC fasteners is where a disk drive vendor supplied its product
with
UNC threaded mounting.
All "#6 size" fasteners are actually M3.5-0.6. All "#4 size" fasteners
are
really M3.0-0.5.
And, although the PCI standard calls for 6-32 UNC fasteners to retain
PCI
cards, Apple uses M3.5-0.6 there, too.
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Tom Baker wrote:
As I install drives to sleds, sleds to cases, modems, fans, etc. in my
G4 I have to keep scrounging around for those itty bitty screws that
hold everything together, and I'm amazed at how many different lengths
and thread sizes are required. I guess I need to have a collection of
them handy.
I spotted this set of screws at Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006B8CX/ref=ord_cart_shr/104
-7678271-4071923?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance&n=172282
for
$22. This kit has 50 each of seven different screw categories, 350
total.
This might be a good buy IF these are the same sort of screws you
commonly find in a G4 and associated hardware.
Opinions on this kit? Anyone know of any other (and possibly cheaper)
sources of common computer screws?
Tom
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