Hello again! Dear friends, friends. Today, with great pleasure, I want to talk with you about old, dead and seemingly unnecessary components of a home computer. Delving into the garage in search of new ideas, accidentally stumbled upon an old computer hard drive, in other words, a hard drive, 200 ... a shaggy year. This mechanism died a long time ago and was not buried in the garbage dump, but was stored in the garage for the simple reason of laziness, hands could not be thrown away, there were also views of the internal filling of this unit, a motor, neodymium magnets and so on ...
Immediately make a reservation, the idea is not mine, but spied on the Internet. But, I think, to whom the idea of something new comes first, he has been skiing in Courchevel for a long time. And we basically repeat someone’s ideas, making our own improvements. I liked the idea and until a certain time hid deep in the brain. But day X came, when in the garage I came across this old winchester.
The preface is finished, we proceed to the manufacture of original and funny watches that will decorate the table of any system administrator or a simple layman. By the way, such a watch will be quite original homemade a gift or a present among youth.
Making a watch from a hard drive is easy and simple. Making watches from a hard drive can be put in a high school program and any student in grades 5-6 will successfully cope with the task in one classic lesson, i.e. 45 minutes. The hard drive itself has the aesthetic function of designing a watch. A clock drive mechanism, standard, was purchased at a trivial Chinese online store. A small nuance, when purchasing a watch mechanism in an online store, pay attention to the length of the thread of the selected mechanism, choose so that it is enough to fix it in the hard disk case. The thickness of the hard drives is different and therefore the length of the thread must be selected based on the available hard drive.
As always about safety, work with tools carefully, observing all safety rules.And you will collect very many such watches, and they will tick on the table of your friends and relatives, reminding them of you ...
Video instruction for making original watches from an old computer hard drive:
What we need to make a watch from a hard drive, but we need the following:
Instruments:
1. A set of screwdrivers with different heads, in particular the hard drive cover is fixed with screws with a head under the asterisk bit.
2. Drill or drilling machine, based on the availability of them in your arsenal of tools.
3. Drill for metal.
4. Scissors, for cutting arrows to your size.
5. Formative grinding skin.
6. Wrench or pliers.
7. A cotton swab with some kind of degreasing solution, in order to remove traces of your fingers from the mirror of the disk.
7. Good mood and a bit of enthusiasm.
Materials:
1. An old, dead and seemingly unnecessary computer hard drive that caught my eye at the time.
2. Clockwork with hands.
3. Finger battery.
4. A pair of bolts for fixing the legs of the watch.
5. Legs for watches, the choice is yours from what and which ...
The order of manufacture of watches from a computer hard drive:
1. Remove the hard drive cover, unscrew the bolts six pieces around the perimeter, and do not forget about the seventh bolt located under the factory sticker.
2. Remove the drive and motor.
3. We deploy the washer on the drilling machine to fix the clockwork on the winchester case.
4. Install the clock mechanism on the hard drive.
5. If there is a desire, we mark the time on the dial of the watch, there are many options, from simple marking with a marker to ordering a transparent photo sticker in a specialized organization.
6. Using a swab, wipe the mirror of the dial.
7. Carefully cut the arrows to the desired size.
8. Set the hands on the clock.
9. We insert a finger battery into the watch.
10. Listen to the tick-tock.
11. Set the time.
12. Smiling broadly, we go with a gift to a close friend or girlfriend ...
That's all for today, dear friends. Not saying goodbye.