[SGVHAK] Reminder: SGVHAK meeting this Saturday 8/24

[Mic Chow]

I agree with Scoops.  WD-40 is NOT a lubricant.  The WD stands for Water
Displacement.  It is supposed to be an aid for dealing with rusty bolts and
screws.  3-in-1 or some other thin oil or silicon base lubricant would be
much better.

As for more books for people interested in getting into Electronics.  I
have been mention an author/engineer named Forest M. Mims III.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Mims

Here is a location for a bunch of PDFs of his books:
http://bookos.org/g/Forrest%20M%20Mims

I suggest starting with Getting Started in Electronics.

Mic



On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Scoops Adamczyk <scoops at caltech.edu>wrote:

>
> On Aug 22, 2013, at 8:58 AM, Lan Dang <l.dang at ymail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Scoops,
> >
> > That would be great.
> >
> > There is no agenda, just different groups of people working on stuff.
> >
> > I will bring a trunkload of salvaged hard drives that people can
> practice disassembling. They are 3.5" drives that hold less than 10GB.
> >
> > What tools do you recommend people bring? Is a small phillips
> screwdriver good enough?
> >
> > Lan
>
> Most "modern" (after ~1990) drives use Torx ("hexalobular internal")
> screws, mostly T9. Some internal screws can be smaller. So Torx numbers T9
> and T7, sometimes T6, and for the 2.5" drives sometimes as small as T4.
>
> .  Scoops
>
>
>
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