[NTLK] OT: iPod hard drive blue foam, does one need it?

[Andrew Beals]

Cool, thanks!

No, no head crashes - and the sleds they were in tend to still work
when tested with small drives.  I suspect controller board failure.
There was some definite corrosion on one of the interconnects.  All
old drives, <250GB, long out of warranty.


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Andrei Chichak <newton at chichak.ca> wrote:
> Hey Andrew,
>
> go to http://www.gadgetmenders.com/Replacement_Parts_For_iPod_3rd_Generation_gal.html
>
> Did you find that the platters were scratched, or did they look okay?
>
> Andrei
>
>
> On 2013-July-19, at 9:19 AM, Andrew Beals <andrew.beals at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As it turns out, the headphone jack connector & ribbon cable for the
>> 3rd gen iPods appears to be unobtanium.
>>
>> In good news, though, I disassembled a handful of HDDs recently and in
>> addition to recovering the magnets for my fridge and platters for a
>> mobile-to-come, I saved off some thin sticky and presumably insulating
>> foam off of the bottom of their circuit boards, which will go into my
>> iPod Photo when I tackle it next week.  (HDD cables *are* available
>> for that)
>>
>
>
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