From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A00F21382C5 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2020 14:22:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0BF5E09B5; Sat, 6 Jun 2020 14:22:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9B129E0900 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2020 14:22:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [86.177.64.94] (helo=[192.168.1.65]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1jhZii-0007WC-CD for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2020 15:22:49 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive screws To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20672991.EfDdHjke4D@lenovo.localdomain> From: antlists Message-ID: Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 15:22:49 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20672991.EfDdHjke4D@lenovo.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 99b23a96-fd55-490a-9327-4922d01a6a48 X-Archives-Hash: a13f95541ed1904a4e236dd4d810af82 On 06/06/2020 09:23, Michael wrote: > Yes, getting the thread wrong and damaging the female thread in the enclosure, > while thinking this/almost/ fits, is not good for your nerves. There are > thread gauges which you can match the pitch of a screw/bolt and help determine > the thread specification, but they are typically used for larger screws/holes: I've never had any trouble BUT ... there are two different incompatible threads. Drive screws don't fit the case, and case screws don't fit the drive, despite them looking pretty similar ... Cheers, Wol