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tradertim

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#181061 30-Sep-2015 22:00
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Hi all.

 

Western Digital decreased their screw socket depth on their latest internal SATA drives - in my case the 6TB purple surveillance.

The screws sent to me by the NVR manufacturer are too long.

Has anyone found a place to source the new shorter 6-32 screws for hard drives.

I already been to specialist screw fastener, Bunnings, mitre 10 etc, and looked on amazon, and everywhere else that showed up on a google search.

regards

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  #1397663 30-Sep-2015 22:37
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Grind the screws shorter?




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  #1397670 30-Sep-2015 23:29
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I always get my PC screws from ebay.. takes a few weeks out of China but always get exactly what I'm after




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