spare jumpers

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Is there a walk-in place that sells spare jumpers for HDs?

Thanks.
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I'd suggest walking into any repair shop and a reasonable person will be
either glad to give you one or sell it to you for a pittance.
 
.... and be sure to get the right size. Jumpers come in a variety of
pin-to-pin spacings.
 
In my experience in Los Angeles, you have to call hardcore
electrical shops that sell to hobbyists and prototypers and
retired aerospace engineers. These are usually a bit grungey-
looking places (to match their clients) with parts and books
dating from the last century (i.e. 10 years ago). The shiny
retail places in malls and suburban shopping centers - even
Fry's Electronics - don't have 'em.
 
Is there a walk-in place that sells spare jumpers for HDs?

Thanks.
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I am sure you could manufacture one yourself if you are desperate,
A bit of aluminium foil between a piece of bend card?


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Is there a walk-in place that sells spare jumpers for HDs?

Thanks.
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How many did you need? For a typical 3.5" drive, you'd
using 0.1" pin spaced jumpers which are easily enough pulled
off some old hard drive or motherboard. Find a local
computer shop and they'd be crooks to charge you for a
couple, though I'm sure you can buy 'em by the bag somewhere
online too.
 
Bazzer said:
I am sure you could manufacture one yourself if you are desperate,
A bit of aluminium foil between a piece of bend card?


nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffn
nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn


f=foil
n=card
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a non gas-tight joint with aluminium is about as unreliable as it gets.
If youre going to clip something on or wedge something in at least use
steel copper or preferably gold.


NT
 
a non gas-tight joint with aluminium is about as unreliable as it gets.
If youre going to clip something on or wedge something in at least use
steel copper or preferably gold.
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I never thought I'd see the day when we had DIY HDD jumper
suggestions. Geeze, borrow one from a neighbor or
something, buy a drive which has one or a spare, or there's
about 20 in every old Pentium 1 box being thrown away.

Any kind of makeshift jumper is going to be fairly
unreliable or a tight enough non-planar fit on the (square)
pins that it deforms them. Real jumpers are highly
underrated.
 
a non gas-tight joint with aluminium is about as unreliable as it gets.
If youre going to clip something on or wedge something in at least use
steel copper or preferably gold.
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Well maybe, I don't have a lot of spare gold hanging around the house! A bit
of Aluminimum
foil from a cigarette packet has been suggested as a quick fix for a blown
fuse. the main thing
is to be sure you don't make contact with any other pins. If the foil fails
open circuit I doubt it
will do any harm? Maybe you could do something with a bit of copper wire, as
long as you
do it powered off and ensure it it 'safe' you shouldn't have any probs.
Would do for a 'quick fix'.
 
Well maybe, I don't have a lot of spare gold hanging around the house! A bit
of Aluminimum
foil from a cigarette packet has been suggested as a quick fix for a blown
fuse. the main thing
is to be sure you don't make contact with any other pins. If the foil fails
open circuit I doubt it
will do any harm? Maybe you could do something with a bit of copper wire, as
long as you
do it powered off and ensure it it 'safe' you shouldn't have any probs.
Would do for a 'quick fix'.
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Do you understand what happens when you have a loose oxidised noisy
connection on the drive's controller? Sorry but its not a sensible idea
at all.

I quite agree with kony about jumpers, but fact is some people with
shove something in there anyway, so at least they can use a steel nut
not ali foil.


NT
 
Timothy Daniels said:
In my experience in Los Angeles, you have to call hardcore
electrical shops that sell to hobbyists and prototypers and
retired aerospace engineers.
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The shiny retail places in malls and suburban shopping centers - even
Fry's Electronics - don't have 'em.
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Uh, yeah they do... and they have the cool ones with "handles" to make them
easy to use.
Hell, they have them in colors. It's like $1 for 100 or something. Try the
aisle with the soldering irons, maybe.

If you really can't find them, look for a "computer swap-meet" ad in your
area. They're usually once a month, and they have geeky items. Plus you can
grab an extra $2 mouse or $5 keyboard, so you don't have to clean the ones
you have.
 
Mabden said:
Uh, yeah they do... and they have the cool ones with "handles" to make them
easy to use.
Hell, they have them in colors. It's like $1 for 100 or something. Try the
aisle with the soldering irons, maybe.

If you really can't find them, look for a "computer swap-meet" ad in your
area. They're usually once a month, and they have geeky items. Plus you can
grab an extra $2 mouse or $5 keyboard, so you don't have to clean the ones
you have.
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Try picking up a 'throw-away' on trash day. If you're lucky, and the unit
is old enough, you may find many jumpers on board.

HankG
 
HankG said:
"Mabden"wrote:
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If you're referring to Fry's Electronics, yes they do have them now.
They're in the "Computer Components" section. Last summer
they told me to just find an old hard drive. <sigh>

*TimDaniels*
 
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