I had this old hard drive and I needed a mirror

[miketx]

I have several old 20 GB hard drives that were given to me by a friend who takes old PC's apart for the gold, where ever that is in them. He's given me several Dell pc's in various stages of disrepair and I have gotten three to work well. One day I decided to take one of the hard drives apart and look it over. I immediately found a road block. While I have all kinds of tools from the transmission days, I did not have a small enough torx bit to remove the screws from the case. So I thought about it and this punch almost fit in the torx heads:

Next I took a hammer and beat the punch into the torx head and it went in easy and I got them all out. But the little pecker heads thought they were clever hiding one screw under the "do not remove this tag" sticker! ha! I got it apart and it had only two platters so like I said it's an older one. After I looked at it for long enough I sat it down on my desk alongside the other crap that I have piled up like empty tubes of Cortisone, ammo boxes and empty water glasses, and candles and knives and flashlights. You know, must have clutter. So it sat there.

A few days later I needed a mirror and was gonna buy one when I saw the strangest thing! My reflection was looking back at me when I looked at the hard drive! A perfect mirror! I was amazed at why that amazed me because I knew the platters have a mirror polish on them. So now I don't have to spend 6.00 on a mirror, I can use a ruined obsolete HD that once cast 500.00 to see my head. Sight that it is.

Perhaps this will help someone one day needing a mirror, if they aren't a vampire. Can't see their clothes in them either.

 

[JGalt]

I have several old 20 GB hard drives that were given to me by a friend who takes old PC's apart for the gold, where ever that is in them. He's given me several Dell pc's in various stages of disrepair and I have gotten three to work well. One day I decided to take one of the hard drives apart and look it over. I immediately found a road block. While I have all kinds of tools from the transmission days, I did not have a small enough torx bit to remove the screws from the case. So I thought about it and this punch almost fit in the torx heads:

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Next I took a hammer and beat the punch into the torx head and it went in easy and I got them all out. But the little pecker heads thought they were clever hiding one screw under the "do not remove this tag" sticker! ha! I got it apart and it had only two platters so like I said it's an older one. After I looked at it for long enough I sat it down on my desk alongside the other crap that I have piled up like empty tubes of Cortisone, ammo boxes and empty water glasses, and candles and knives and flashlights. You know, must have clutter. So it sat there.

A few days later I needed a mirror and was gonna buy one when I saw the strangest thing! My reflection was looking back at me when I looked at the hard drive! A perfect mirror! I was amazed at why that amazed me because I knew the platters have a mirror polish on them. So now I don't have to spend 6.00 on a mirror, I can use a ruined obsolete HD that once cast 500.00 to see my head. Sight that it is.

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Perhaps this will help someone one day needing a mirror, if they aren't a vampire. Can't see their clothes in them either.

I used to take those things apart when I was in the industry, back in the day. You can get a pretty decent Chinese-made precision screwdriver set at Walmart for something like $10. It has a shitload of driver bits, including those tiny torx bits.

 

[miketx]

I have several old 20 GB hard drives that were given to me by a friend who takes old PC's apart for the gold, where ever that is in them. He's given me several Dell pc's in various stages of disrepair and I have gotten three to work well. One day I decided to take one of the hard drives apart and look it over. I immediately found a road block. While I have all kinds of tools from the transmission days, I did not have a small enough torx bit to remove the screws from the case. So I thought about it and this punch almost fit in the torx heads:

View attachment 297425

Next I took a hammer and beat the punch into the torx head and it went in easy and I got them all out. But the little pecker heads thought they were clever hiding one screw under the "do not remove this tag" sticker! ha! I got it apart and it had only two platters so like I said it's an older one. After I looked at it for long enough I sat it down on my desk alongside the other crap that I have piled up like empty tubes of Cortisone, ammo boxes and empty water glasses, and candles and knives and flashlights. You know, must have clutter. So it sat there.

A few days later I needed a mirror and was gonna buy one when I saw the strangest thing! My reflection was looking back at me when I looked at the hard drive! A perfect mirror! I was amazed at why that amazed me because I knew the platters have a mirror polish on them. So now I don't have to spend 6.00 on a mirror, I can use a ruined obsolete HD that once cast 500.00 to see my head. Sight that it is.

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Perhaps this will help someone one day needing a mirror, if they aren't a vampire. Can't see their clothes in them either.

I used to take those things apart when I was in the industry, back in the day. You can get a pretty decent Chinese-made precision screwdriver set at Walmart for something like $10. It has a shitload of driver bits, including those tiny torx bits.

But beating them off with a hammer makes me feel manly.

 

[JGalt]

I have several old 20 GB hard drives that were given to me by a friend who takes old PC's apart for the gold, where ever that is in them. He's given me several Dell pc's in various stages of disrepair and I have gotten three to work well. One day I decided to take one of the hard drives apart and look it over. I immediately found a road block. While I have all kinds of tools from the transmission days, I did not have a small enough torx bit to remove the screws from the case. So I thought about it and this punch almost fit in the torx heads:

View attachment 297425

Next I took a hammer and beat the punch into the torx head and it went in easy and I got them all out. But the little pecker heads thought they were clever hiding one screw under the "do not remove this tag" sticker! ha! I got it apart and it had only two platters so like I said it's an older one. After I looked at it for long enough I sat it down on my desk alongside the other crap that I have piled up like empty tubes of Cortisone, ammo boxes and empty water glasses, and candles and knives and flashlights. You know, must have clutter. So it sat there.

A few days later I needed a mirror and was gonna buy one when I saw the strangest thing! My reflection was looking back at me when I looked at the hard drive! A perfect mirror! I was amazed at why that amazed me because I knew the platters have a mirror polish on them. So now I don't have to spend 6.00 on a mirror, I can use a ruined obsolete HD that once cast 500.00 to see my head. Sight that it is.

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Perhaps this will help someone one day needing a mirror, if they aren't a vampire. Can't see their clothes in them either.

I used to take those things apart when I was in the industry, back in the day. You can get a pretty decent Chinese-made precision screwdriver set at Walmart for something like $10. It has a shitload of driver bits, including those tiny torx bits.

But beating them off with a hammer makes me feel manly.

I've done that before too, or. even shot them full of holes. They're fun to connect to a power supply, let them spin up, then whack them hard on the bench until they start screeching and coming apart inside...

 

[miketx]

I have several old 20 GB hard drives that were given to me by a friend who takes old PC's apart for the gold, where ever that is in them. He's given me several Dell pc's in various stages of disrepair and I have gotten three to work well. One day I decided to take one of the hard drives apart and look it over. I immediately found a road block. While I have all kinds of tools from the transmission days, I did not have a small enough torx bit to remove the screws from the case. So I thought about it and this punch almost fit in the torx heads:

View attachment 297425

Next I took a hammer and beat the punch into the torx head and it went in easy and I got them all out. But the little pecker heads thought they were clever hiding one screw under the "do not remove this tag" sticker! ha! I got it apart and it had only two platters so like I said it's an older one. After I looked at it for long enough I sat it down on my desk alongside the other crap that I have piled up like empty tubes of Cortisone, ammo boxes and empty water glasses, and candles and knives and flashlights. You know, must have clutter. So it sat there.

A few days later I needed a mirror and was gonna buy one when I saw the strangest thing! My reflection was looking back at me when I looked at the hard drive! A perfect mirror! I was amazed at why that amazed me because I knew the platters have a mirror polish on them. So now I don't have to spend 6.00 on a mirror, I can use a ruined obsolete HD that once cast 500.00 to see my head. Sight that it is.

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Perhaps this will help someone one day needing a mirror, if they aren't a vampire. Can't see their clothes in them either.

I used to take those things apart when I was in the industry, back in the day. You can get a pretty decent Chinese-made precision screwdriver set at Walmart for something like $10. It has a shitload of driver bits, including those tiny torx bits.

But beating them off with a hammer makes me feel manly.

I've done that before too, or. even shot them full of holes. They're fun to connect to a power supply, let them spin up, then whack them hard on the bench until they start screeching and coming apart inside...

I shot a printer once. Damn thing needed killing.

 

[Shawnee_b]

I have also taken HD's apart. A bit of necessity is the mother of invention and wtf can I do with this goes a long ways. Last one I did I saw a mess of parts would be cool in "steampunk" regalia

 

[Natural Citizen]

If you keep the 56k modems, you'll be abe to communicate after the shtf. And without a phone company. Just keep em in a faraday cage in case the shtf because solar flare or something. You can also tinker with your old jeep and make it emp proof. Only need a few modifications.