Mine is a derivative of Romeo's design further up this thread. Just some bungee cord, plastic cable clips and two machine bolts. Must have cost all of $1.50...
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Yeah that's what worried me. Electric cable clips look like this hereZoot Allures wrote:Hi Quickblood,
Someone gave the name earlier in this topic.
These are electric cable clips you'll probably find in the electric furnitures from your local hardware store.
mcmaster.com calls them "nylon loop straps" on page 1473 (Find "page 1473"). mouser.com calls them "nylon cable clamps" (page 977, figure I). Also made from other materials, but nylon is most common.Quickblood wrote:Silly question but what are those white plastic thingy's many of you guys have screwed to your hard drives called?
I bought a pack from Maplin.Quickblood wrote:Thankfully after a lot of searching I finally found that they're called P-Clips here.
Really needed to find that name as there is a huge variety of cable clips out there so 'cable clips' alone really wouldn't help, plus modding the ones I've found wasn't really a realistic option.
Anyway now my only problem is figuring the right size to buy.
Thanks guys.
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Not whacky, reasonable thoughts.chapmani wrote:After all the high praise for Stretch Magic around here, I went out and bought some. But now I'm not so sure.
Stretch Magic seems to me to be a little "twangy" (think elastic band twang). Perhaps it's the size I got. I ended up with the 1.5mm variety. Since a portion of hard drive noise is high frequency, I can't help but wonder if it would transmit along the more taught piece of SM (the part carrying most of the drive weight), and get picked up by the drive cage. Also, in my setup, there are fans mounted in front of the cage, and I can imagine SM singing in the breeze. There is probably not enough air moving to do that, but it did cross my mind.
I've also been thinking about fabric store elastic. Conceptually, elastic made for clothing isn't made to be under constant stress. For example, you might wear a piece of clothing 16 hrs a day maybe two days a week. The elastic would remain in its relaxed state 80% of the time.
I'm leaning towards medium duty shock cord (ie not the thinnest - next gauge up). Thats the stuff you'll see in most newer tent poles. It's made to be under stress all the time, is a smaller diameter than Bungee thus more easily strung and knotted. In the tent pole example, they stay disassembled 99.9% of the time, thus leaving them under tension. Even when the pole is assembled, the shock cord is still under stess, just less than when the pole sections are separated. And the stuff in my tent poles has stayed stretchy for years. While it too can twang, it's a much lower tone than SM, and I think it would require hurricane force winds to make it sing in the breeze.
Maybe it is a matter of semantics. Perhaps the fabric store elastic Mike suggests, in reality has exact same material specifications as shock cord, and merely dual marketed.
Are my thought processes out of whack, or do they make logical sense?
I'm a Rebel9 user as well. I'm pretty annoyed by the HDD noise escaping through the mesh-front, how about you?Raptus wrote:I set up HD suspension with cheap flat sewing rubber (10m for 2 euros). The Sharkoon Rebel9 only has 5.25 bays so its perfect for this.
I sewed my elastic (the underwear type) into a circle with floss tape (works wonderful to re-attach buttons as well, they'll never come off again) and attached the ring to the cage with zip-ties. As long as the fabric part of the underwear elastic lasts, there is no way that the drive is going to fall out.wim wrote:in danger of falling out if you bumped the case too much