Well it's time to add my Clear Hard Drive mod to the site, this mod has been featured on many sites all over the internet. I went through a lot of work for this mod. I didn't just slap a piece of plexi onto a hard drive, I examined the hard drive and went about it logically and found that layers of plexi would work best.  Some of you may have seen this before, but to others it is new. To those that have seen it before, I have added a bunch of new pictures that I took recently, they are much better quality than the first set. The movies are still there of course...

(What follows is the original worklog, after that is the original pictures on the following pages)

Well I have decided to attempt to replace the cover of a hard drive with plexi glas, to show the spinning and movements etc.

Oh and you can click the pics to see a BIG picture!!

The victim is an old Western Digital Caviar hdd 1281.9 MB (or 1.2gig)

Ok course it has Torx screws in it, No big deal!

We don't want the drive platters to get dusty do we?

So I went and bought two pieces of 8x10 plexi, 1/8 inch thick

Well it turns out I did not really need two pieces, I got three pieces out of one

The idea I came up with was layers of plexi, because if you look at the inside cover it is cut out, for the various parts of the drive...

I am re-using the original screws, so I am using layer 1 as the bottom layer, which will hold the cover on,when all layers are glued together....

Here are pics of layer one after an hour of so of fiddling around with it..

Ok, that fits fine on the drive (tested it of course)..

On to layer 2...cut for platter and arm

Next comes actually gluing them together, used a cheapy paint brush to apply, the glue has the consistency of Elmer's School Glue... here are pics with clamps in place, I put the screws in, to make sure the holes lined up, takes approx 1 hour to dry...

Now layer 3, top layer... I did a little Creative etching also.