Guide Polishing A Harddrive (Images Fixed)

Thanks for that, often wondered

The polished look realy does look the bit.

 

not all windowed hd's crash, i have one thats ben runing or a half year soloid and its fine, its not my primary drive by anymeans as its just a 1.2 gb wd calvere byt there more reliable than a mack truck and even though i have my wall shinily coverd with platers, planing to make a lamp out of them soon ,if i do i will post pics, mainly from ibm deathstars alond with a graveyard mixture of hitchis seagates and quantums and a nice few maxtors there are a few western digitals in there and i have enough magnests from them to keep both the locker and refrigerator well organised this drive isint going to join them quight yet, its my aluxfiles disk and holds about 700 megs notice the close to cd backup size? amount of tereasured halflife mods and such that get semi frequent useage it still runs fine. the reick to a sucusful window is simple, less time= open less exposire to contamanents. i had a duplacate od the drive from a friend that had crashed and was in the stack of things to use as tmplates and stand in drives when modding, and i took it and stole its top and windowed it, no i did not add led' as sadly it did not occur to me at the time, this was a spurr of the near midnight summer insomnia. i nibblerd out the majority of the cover and sealed it with a piece of the thin plastic casing to a small sized nic i had lying around, and finished up with a thin silicone layer, now heres the trick take the dive into a small rather clean room, i used the bathroom because it was rather clean, and had low airflow, and sience it wasn't in the path of the ac it wasn't going to have much dust stured up, now heres wat i did i throughly sleaned both the window and all the tools i was going to use and loaded it into a turcky bag , you know the ones that are thin clear and rather large then i removed the harddrives sticker as it hides the top screw to some disks like the western digital, then i put it inside and opened it through the the platic and and poped the top off with a little pice of string i had glued in advance to the thing and then set that aside and exchanged it for the windowed cover and replaced the screws, the driver was slightly magnetic but showeed me no adverse effects, i have done another drive standard' open toped like alot of the people and it to my nolage is still running, i gave it away. the bag was my first and i was rather paranoid.

 

Wow. *goes crazy and makes plans to polish the aluminum chassis of his server*

 

sw33t man vere sw33t

 

Looks at article... fetches drool bucket... looks at new PSU

The PSU has a fairly matt gray coating though, would this technique work?

 

Anyone successfully done this? Planning to apply this method into my newly bought Chieftec silver aluminum case. But I'm scared.

 

yeah i want to know too does this technique works on psu

 

Good little mod, might do the same to mine

 

i'm ilnow this thread is a bit old, but i have one question:

That drive looks wery much like a seagate baracuda disc... and those ARE already mirror finished.. atleast all 5 of the seagates we have in the house... looks exactly like it...

 

Nice mod , let's try this on my maxtor!!!

 

... which wouldnt work unless you put some kind of protective coat on it very quickly. Aluminium is very reactive and gets an oxide layer very quickly, which is dull.

 

could someone tell me what buff is in the sentences
"buff it off by hand by making little circles "
English is not my mother tongue

i guess it's something like clean, wipe it off????

 

Take a clean cloth and clean off the remaining polish and/or polish to a shine (it's harder to describe a word without using the word itself than you might think...)

So yes, you were pretty close with your interpretation. Closer than I'd be interpreting a word in any language other than my native one...

 

hm.. it's looking greate... but nothing for me.. you don't see the top of my hds..

but that should work with every metall, or?

 

every solid material, as long as you take your time and use the right products
some polishing products tend not to like metal (dont use stuff for marble on metal) but it also works without any chemicals added,

just sandpaper and water can do miracles on roughly grinded metal: at college we had to do a hardness measurement(vickers) and it took us 3 or 4 hours working from sanding belt down to 5000 grit polishing/sanding paper but we needed a microscope to find scratches ( needed that anyway to measure the prints we made on it)

 

0013, I am quoting your sig:

I believe it is because the floppy drive accepts disks which are 3.5" wide and since the floppy drive was one of the more widely used drives of that size, the name transferred over and stuck. It is much easier and more convenient to call them "3.5 inch bays" instead of "those smaller bays." Same with 5.25" bays which are just under 6" but they were mainly used to house drives which accepted floppy disks that were 5.25" wide.

As for the topic at hand:

some of you may find these products helpful:

http://www.englishcustompolishing.com/usca/products.html

 

This is true. It depends how clean you make it, and the work environment. One sure fire way to get a windowed drive to work 100% reliably, is to obtain a used, or better still, broken version of the drive you wish to window, then window the cover from the broken drive. Take the modded cover, and your main drive to a data recovery specialist, and ask them to fit ot for you, as they have full clean room facilities.

 

just shined mine up today , and man they look good , nice info to have , i wouldnt have bothered until i saw this thread . - theyre not particularly visible in my case , but i know theyre there dammit ! lol

 

Umm okai,, nice but..

What about the important info. is the warrenty info on the other side, if you scratched all the info off, you'r warrenty is gone.

 

Welcome to the world of modding, Blackie!