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What is the screw size for 3.5" floppy drives?
Im adding a floppy drive to a computer that is about 10 years old and
never came with one. The tower case has a bay for that size drive, but I dont have the screws. Hopefully my local hardware store will have them. What size do I need? length, thread pitch, diameter, etc. Are they rated as SAE or Metric? If the hardware store dont have them, I will probably have to go to ebay or something like that. We dont have anything around here for computer parts stores. |
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What is the screw size for 3.5" floppy drives?
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Im adding a floppy drive to a computer that is about 10 years old and never came with one. The tower case has a bay for that size drive, but I dont have the screws. Hopefully my local hardware store will have them. What size do I need? length, thread pitch, diameter, etc. Are they rated as SAE or Metric? If the hardware store dont have them, I will probably have to go to ebay or something like that. We dont have anything around here for computer parts stores. Wikipedia has a few words to say. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_case_screws I'm not very good at describing screws, so I'll have to leave that to the Wikipedia people. New computer cases come with a bag of screws - but I haven't seen people selling those bags as a separate item. One reason for not doing that, is the standoffs in the bag (that go underneath the motherboard) are custom to each computer case design. There can be dozens of different styles and cutoff lengths. But the screws for PCI slot covers, HDD, and your floppy, those are likely to be common from one computer case bag to another. And modern "screwless" computer cases, would not be a good source of random hardware like that. They might still have standoffs in a bag, but some computer cases use sheet metal "bumps" as their standoffs, and the standoffs are not a separate item on those. If I saw that in the design, I would not buy that computer case. I only buy cases with proper separate standoffs, so they won't short out to something on the bottom of the motherboard. The PCB has grounded "rings" for the standoff to touch, but you don't want the standoff contacting a capacitor located too close to the standoff location. Separate standoffs can be shaped more precisely than a "bump" standoff. Paul |
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What is the screw size for 3.5" floppy drives?
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