All-
Howdy and apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, but... I recently came across a pile of hard drives that I'm just about done taking apart. I really kind of enjoy it as there are all sorts of variations on the theme, and just when you thought you've seen it all along comes some new configuration (or stripped torq screw) to challenge you.
Anyway, there are two specific questions I have, the first is: for those spindle motors that are not screwed to the chassis, is there a way to remove them that reduces the chance of the copper coils remaining stuck to the chassis?
This bugs the heck out of me! The way I've been removing this type of motor is by punching it through from the back of the chassis. Some types come out cleanly, some pop in half like this one, and some come off but take a little of the cast aluminum chassis with them. Is there any way to prevent this? What do you classify this as? Still cast aluminum, or aluminum breakage? Can you still sell the top half as spindle motors, or is that downgraded to aluminum breakage as well? Grrr....
The second question is: how the *&#! do you get this kind of retaining ring off the spindle motor?? It looks like you can just pry it off if you get under it, but I can't seem to. Is there a technique or some special tool?
Just wondering what those who've gone before me have done with these things... Any advice would be appreciated!
cheers,
tbg
PS: sorry about not being better with the attachments- its too late in the evening to spend a lot of time on it...
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