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Hello.
I am setting up one of my old NAS systems and I in the process is attaching the hard drives to its brackets. I am in need of those small screws that are used to connect the hard drive to the bracket.
These are screws I normally have laying around however I can't find anymore and I was wondering if anyone here knew if maybe a home depot,Ace or maybe some place online might have them.
I did find one place but they wanted like $15 for 15 screws which is $1 a piece and kind of ridiculous. Anyway, if someone knows a easy way to get this screws, I would love to hear it.
Thanks.
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Just check out your local Geek. Any computer shop would have them and probably sell them cheap, if not just give them to you.
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home improvement stores no way
Ace or a real hardware store with isles of screws very likely ...I would try them
or like Dave says try some computer shops or even repair depts at office superstores or best buy ..or cruise the street on trash day looking for pcs by the curb
every flea mkt around here has one or two guys selling "refrubed " Pcs , since its a Saturday you could check with them
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Take a hard drive with you to any home improvement store, (Lowes, Home Depot, etc) and go to the aisle with 6-10 screws in a bag. Figure out which one it is and make sure you get SHORT ones. Thread is,.... 4-40, maybe 6-32? If they aren't short enough, wire connector crimp tools usually have built in bolt-cutters of the correct size. Remember to run the screw in from the thread side of the tool. Otherwise, you only get to cut one bolt unless it's way long and hangs out the other side.
When I was young, I was Liberal. As I aged and wised up, I became Conservative. Now that I'm old, I have settled on Curmudgeon.
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when you go to a real hardware store you don't need to guess you can take a screw from the bin and actually try it
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What Skip says!
I've been working at the hardware store all week!
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I'll buy the REAL hardware store. They're just so hard to find anymore!
OR do what I did. E-bay'd a plastic multi bin box full of all sorts of computer hardware bits and pieces for all of $14 including shipping. Of course, I wasn't on any deadline.
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The screw is SAE 6-32 x either 1/4" or 1/2" depending on clearence in the hard drive housing. I must have a thousand of these rolling around the shop.
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John-off topic but two other stores within 15 minutes of the one I work at have gone out of business or will be soon, within the last 6 months.
I have so many of those screws...when I gut computers I take all the screws and put them in my plano box with slot covers, jumpers, et cetera.
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