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From: Dan Espen on 16 Jan 2006 10:10 gypsy3001(a)yahoo.com writes: > I'm looking for a 5-point star shaped screwdriver. I bought a Seagate > 80GB external hard drive. Its case uses these special screws. I shot a > picture of a screw here: > http://www.gearhack.com/Forums/Tool/Screwdriver_for_5-Point_Star_Screw.files.hidden/5-point%20star.jpg > > Does anyone know where I can find a screwdriver for these screws? > Thanks. In my opinion, someone should be arrested for using these things. Do a google search for 'star screwdriver computer'. You'll get lots of hits.
From: Jim Yanik on 16 Jan 2006 10:01 RP <no_mail_no_spam(a)yahoo.com> wrote in news:QoudnRknaMTLxVbeRVn- iQ(a)centurytel.net: > > > buffalobill wrote: >> "TORX PLUS" [NOT TORX] If the screw only has FIVE sides instead of SIX like a Torx,then maybe it should be Torx-MINUS. 8-) (warning;humor attempt) -- Jim Yanik jyanik at kua.net
From: John McGaw on 16 Jan 2006 10:39 gypsy3001(a)yahoo.com wrote: > I'm looking for a 5-point star shaped screwdriver. I bought a Seagate > 80GB external hard drive. Its case uses these special screws. I shot a > picture of a screw here: > http://www.gearhack.com/Forums/Tool/Screwdriver_for_5-Point_Star_Screw.files.hidden/5-point%20star.jpg > > Does anyone know where I can find a screwdriver for these screws? > Thanks. > > Chieh > -- > Hacking Digital Cameras - > http://www.camerahacker.com/books/Hacking_Digital_Cameras/ > Well, the other posters who called it a Torx were almost on the mark. What you have there is a Torx Plus which is marketed as a tamper resistant screw and this time Textron has put some actual controls upon the distribution of the tools needed to work properly with them. Guess they learned that everyone and their brother was selling the regular six-pointed Torx tools thus depriving them of any security benefits. Same thing with the Tamper Torx which was identical but which had a pin in the center of the star but which, once the pin was snapped off or the tool had a hole drilled in the tip, was easily removed. If you want to buy Torx Plus tools you must, in theory anyway, be a legitimate user as defined by Textron although if you know anyone who works with them they should be pretty easily obtained at the cost of a case of beer. ;-) http://www.textronfasteningsystems.com/products/torxplus/index.html -- John McGaw [Knoxville, TN, USA] http://johnmcgaw.com
From: Tony Hwang on 16 Jan 2006 11:02 Handi wrote: > I'd dare to guess that if this fellow doesn't recognize a Torx screw > that he isn't aware that he should never open a hard drive. > > Torx screws are seldom used for no other purpose then to keep the prying > eyes of consumers from sensitive stuff. Thats why they're used in > elevators. > > My son has actually opened a defective laptop hard drive before and > amazingly it still functioned, for only a short time. Now its a > paperweight. > > Handi > > Hi, Many will make one good drive from two bad ones. Some fails in electronics part some fails in mechanical part. Tony
From: stickyfox@gmail.com on 16 Jan 2006 11:17
David C. Partridge wrote: > Hmmmm why do you want to open the case of the drive? If you open it > outside a class 1 clean room, the drive WILL die. No matter what you do with it, the drive WILL die. It's the unfortunate, but inevitable destiny that we all share. I've opened hard drives again and again in very filthy rooms and they've never shown any ill effects over the days, or in some cases weeks, that I operated them. I do this all the time with old drives because I can see what's happening inside the drive while I test my control circuitry. If I was manufacturing hundreds of thousands of drives and had to worry about warranties and customer satisfaction, I'd be doing it in a clean room. And I would buy a new drive before attempting to repair a damaged one. But you definitely can operate a hard drive without the cover for a while; probably long enough to do whatever you want if you don't dawdle. |