In this first edition of what may be a one-article series, I introduce to you my hard drive clock. I got bored, I tore an old 20 gigabyte IDE hard drive apart, and I added a clock mechanism.
I’ve seen this done before (somewhere on the internets) so I won’t take credit for the idea, but I did not follow any plans, so I will take credit for finding a harder way to do something I could have easily found plans for.
Looks pretty good. Was the hard part the disassembly, or the mounting of the clock mechanism?
Disassembly was the hardest. The hard drive I used takes a couple different small Torx sizes. Deciding how to mount the platter without the spindle in the middle was a little tricky, because it is responsible for holding the clock mechanism in place and not the other way around. In the end the only part I added (besides the clock mechanism) was one washer in the center to shrink the hole down to the size of the post of the clock mechanism.