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Title: Hard Drive Based Spinners
Post by: aricade on July 13, 2003, 11:06:00 pm

I'm building a hard drive based spinner.  I found a perfect knob off of an old exercise bike.   It has a 1/4" shaft hole with a bolt to hold shaft in place.

I took apart and old 1.2 gb Westerdigital IDE Hard drive.  I am using the bearing from it.. The hole on the top of the bearing, seems to take a 2mm screw.

So my question is where can I find something that has a 2mm screws .  Maybe if I found a long 2mm screw I could put 1/4" spacer on it.  I check home depot and radioshack but no luck.  I will be hitting the smaller electrical shops in town.

Any Ideas,

Title: Re:Hard Drive Based Spinners
Post by: nighthawk2099 on July 14, 2003, 08:52:41 am

Go to Lowes and there is a section where they have all of the screws (hehe-- I said screw...) anyway, they have small threaded studs about 4 inch long and about 2mm (large range of sizes).  Just take the drive parts and the knob and size stuff out.....

Title: Re:Hard Drive Based Spinners
Post by: aricade on July 14, 2003, 12:21:05 pm

Quote from: nighthawk2099 on July 14, 2003, 08:52:41 am

Go to Lowes and there is a section where they have all of the screws (hehe-- I said screw...) anyway, they have small threaded studs about 4 inch long and about 2mm (large range of sizes).  Just take the drive parts and the knob and size stuff out.....

 :'(Unfortunatley I'm in Canada.  Ottawa to be specific.  We dont have a Lowes here(at least in Ottawa at any rate).

Anybody know of a store with similar stuff  in canada, particularily ottawa, ontario.

TY
 

Title: Re:Hard Drive Based Spinners
Post by: CanStick on July 14, 2003, 12:31:57 pm

Quote from: aricade on July 14, 2003, 12:21:05 pm

Quote from: nighthawk2099 on July 14, 2003, 08:52:41 am

Go to Lowes and there is a section where they have all of the screws (hehe-- I said screw...) anyway, they have small threaded studs about 4 inch long and about 2mm (large range of sizes).  Just take the drive parts and the knob and size stuff out.....

:'(Unfortunatley I'm in Canada.  Ottawa to be specific.  We dont have a Lowes here(at least in Ottawa at any rate).

Anybody know of a store with similar stuff  in canada, particularily ottawa, ontario.

TY
 

Hi there,
The thread in the top of the WD hard drive is a #4-40 thread (at least it was in the WD hard drive I took apart one time).  They are pretty common...you can get them at Canadian Tire in a small pack pretty cheap.

Hope this helps!
Terry.

Title: Re:Hard Drive Based Spinners
Post by: aricade on July 14, 2003, 01:28:19 pm

Thanx canstick.

I'll check out crappy tire!

Cheers,
Aricade