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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: how to lubricate noisy hard drive?
Message-ID: <1991May20.145859.11814@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 20 May 91 19:58:53 GMT
References: <1991May19.063143.2846@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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| >mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) writes:
| >>Well, you need to take off the outer casing, and lube the internal
| >>components. Especially the platters themselves, since you don't want
| >>the read/write head scraping against the platter.
| >>>is motor oil fine?
| >>I find that Quaker State 10W-30 works best.

| gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu) writes:
| >i tried removing the casing and squirting motor oil on the platters and
| >other parts...
| >the problem i have now is that the drive does not seem to work right
| >anymore...


Silly people -- the March Hare and the Mad Hatter tried this approach
with a timepiece and it didn't work, even though they used *the very
best* butter!

All those moving parts are the technology of a past generation anyway.
What you want is a Solid-State drive!  Fortunately, you can convert
your drive to solid-state quite cheaply.

Just mix up about 100 cc's of epoxy (the two-part kind) and apply it
liberally to the ends of the shaft (runs through that shiny frisbee-
shaped thing) and the read-write head armature (the hand-like thing that
grabs at the frisbee disc).  Apply all excess epoxy to anything that
looks like it might move.  Give it 24 hours to set up, and you'll have
a solid-state (very) hard disk drive!  Just as solid state as those
RAM drives, and you don't need any software!