Brass Hard drive case?

[CBentre]

OK so I've did a search here to see if this has been discussed,to no avail. I was separating hard drives cases today. It's pretty simple. Aluminum,non magnetic stainless, Magnetic stainless. Then I ran into this one. Non magnetic and no spark from the grinder. At first I almost threw it into the aluminum pile but I noticed it was significantly heavier and then there was a yellow underneath the layer I took the grinder to. Has anyone ran into this and would it be brass? I wouldn't think they would use brass but this one has me stumped. Thanks in advance.

 

[qst42know]

I haven't ever seen one in brass but brass has the necessary qualities and the advantage of being easy to stamp with a far longer die life than stainless and much less down time for sharpening.

Until copper prices sky rocketed it was likely an excellent choice for the job.

 

[CBentre]

I haven't ever seen one in brass but brass has the necessary qualities and the advantage of being easy to stamp with a far longer die life than stainless and much less down time for sharpening.

Until copper prices sky rocketed it was likely an excellent choice for the job.

Yeah, that would make sense it was a compaq 18.2gb so a slightly older model. thanks for the reply

 

[trashmaster]

I have to keep the eyes open for this one.

 

[CBentre]

I have to keep the eyes open for this one.

Since then I have found three more it's not a glitch.

 

[tlcarrig]

What brand and model number on the HDs??

 

[CBentre]

What brand and model number on the HDs??

The tags are gone I have a lot more to go through. will update.

 

[CBentre]

What brand and model number on the HDs??

Ok finally had a few minutes to sort out some more the picture is bad so here is the info IBM Deskstar ModelPTA-371020 10.2 gb on this one.

 

[sebass]

Gold in hard drive ?yes it is , i have here one wire from old hard drive , the accuator have gold wires to connect the read head with base .

 

[Smack]

That's true Sebas but not all hard drives do, most are just copper.

edited for grammar

 

[johnboyrox]

Those deskstars have a heavy plate glued on top of the actual lid don't they? (real pain if you are punching holes in the disk.

 

[CBentre]

Those deskstars have a heavy plate glued on top of the actual lid don't they? (real pain if you are punching holes in the disk.

Put them in a vice and bend them takes 2 seconds and rip them off. Should make it a little easier.