Lots of raw material !!!!

[ksor]

Look what I got today !

http://kelds.weebly.com/3/category/stbning5e9a65961c/1.html

Let Google do the translation for you !

[Chazz]

Good score, my day job is repairing printers and computers and I have a 5 years worth of various Hard Drive, computer and printer parts, just need to find the time and money to make a 'backyard' foundry. 

 
Chazz

[Deko]

I have disassembled many hundreds of these disc drives for the local scrapyard,they want the ally,
 (Iam not into home foundry work) i wanted the screws,magnets,and bearings.  However, try finding a tap the right size for the screws. Not the metric ones (quite rare), but the coarse ones. If you find one the right size please let me know where you found one.

Cheers  Deko

[David Jupp]

The vast majority of computer parts were originally specified in the USA, so screws will probably be UNC.  The only metric items I've found in PCs are the mounting screws for CD/DVD drives (which originated in Europe).

[Deko]

Hi David
             You are right about the screws being UNC, but as near as i can make out, they are mainly 3-48 UNC.  A size that has anyone on this side of the pond saying "yer wot, never erd of it"   I have managed to get all other sizes of tap, I.E. 2-56  4.40  6-32  Etc.
But no 3-48 !!!

Cheers  Derek

[Bluechip]

3-48 ??/

http://www.engineeringsupplies.co.uk/taps-hand-carbon-c-183.html?14=68&4=89&15=

not in HSS it seems...

http://www.engineeringsupplies.co.uk/taps-hand-c-185.html?10=&14=68&4=89




BC

[David Jupp]

Tracy tools offer them in carbon and in HSS

http://www.tracytools.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=1_8&product_id=249

[Deko]

Thanks for the links chaps. i will ring tracytools just before the Harrogate show and ask them to take some to the show for me.

Cheers  Derek           

[David Jupp]

Tracy aren't listing Harrogate on their web site as a show they'll attend this year.  Also they are not listed on the Harrogate show site.   I hope this will change, but you might want to check with them.