Comments on: Upgraded my Mac Pro to include Wifi & Bluetooth!

By: ender

ender — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 21:19:03 +0000

In reply to Adam. Every time I disassemble anything, and then reassemble it again, I'm left with extra screws. Every. Single. Time.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:12:54 +0000

In reply to Adam. Yep, it booted up, and my keyboard & mouse are working like they should (its funny how addicted to scroll wheels I've become over the years! When the apple magic mouse just acts like a regular mouse it just sucks...!

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:38:02 +0000

“And I only lost ONE of the screws”

A greater misfortune is when you have your project assembled and you notice you have 4 extra screws.. eh, what the ? where? oh well… it seems to be working.. 🙂

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:24:19 +0000

In reply to Tor.

Heh I don’t know how many times 18″ rack screws pop out of the rack and onto the raised floor, roll over to a vented tile and fall down into the abyss…

The best screwdriver I used had these little ‘grabbers’ to physically hold the screws onto the driver, although I couldn’t imagine something so small for these screws… Sadly the TSA liked my screwdrivers more than I did 🙁

By: Tor

Tor — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:31:29 +0000

The tech guy here at work always magnetizes all screwdrivers. He swears by it. And for the most part it seems to work well, I use his tools and I just “attach” the small screws to the screwdriver and put the screwdriver to where the screw is supposed to go, even sideways or up. Works for really big screws too.. such as in 19″ racks when you need to reconficure the rack and you have to feed the screw through a sideways small opening before it reaches where it’s supposed to go.
Sometimes it may be a bit inconveniant with a “sticky” screwdriver, but for those occasions it’s just to keep a few non-magnetized screwdrivers around.

But that trick with the plastic sleave is neat.

As for a clean work area (including the floor! Or anywhere where something could fall down), yes I couldn’t agree more, and I keep forgetting that a little bit too often. 🙂

-Tor