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Plastic insulator for laptop hard drive (preventing short circuits onhard drive caddy)
Hi,
I need to replace a hard drive in a laptop. The hard drive is mounted in a metal caddy. There's a brown plastic insulator glued to the metal caddy to prevent the circuit board of the original hard drive touching the metal and cause a short circuit. The plastic is custom-cut for the original hard drive (the circuit board doesn't cover the entire hard drive top surface). The new hard drive has a circuit board covering the whole hard drive top surface. So there's an area where the circuit board touches the metal of the caddy. The question is : Where can we buy some plastic insulator sheets? It doesn't seem available anywhere... What I've used, while finding a better answer here, is a 3M Colour Copier Transparency Film. They're supposed to be more resistant to heat since they're made for Colour Copiers. I've cut a rectangle out of one sheet and fitted it between the hard drive and the top of the caddy. What do you guys think? Any ideas of where to buy the real stuff? 3M CG5000 Dual-Purpose Transparency Film http://tiny.cc/yqqwF MSDS (PDF) http://tiny.cc/4Ocs4 I've made my own tests and here are the results : -The transparency and the original brown plastic both burn at approximately the same pace when lighted with fire. -I've put the transparency on a space heater. At 75 deg Celsius, the transparency did not change in shape. At 95 deg Celcius, the transparency curved a little bit. Typically hard drives are not getting that hot, right? Normally they run at about 35-55 deg Celcius, right? |
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