[Beowulf] Drive screw fixed with LocTite

[Peter St. John]

Perhaps the hole for that screw was defective (e.g., somebody tried to screw
in a screw one size too big) and rather than replace the case, he covered
his mistake with the loctite.

I'm still mistified by the hard drive soldered into the case of a brand-name
computer, the trend to preventing user maintenance makes me nuts, and
sometimes gets excessive, but in a hot-swappable array it would be patently
oxymoronic. I think just some coincidence of mistakes.

Peter

On 7/23/08, David Mathog <mathog at caltech.edu> wrote:
>
> A vendor who shall remain nameless graced us with a hot swappable drive
> caddy in which one of the three mounting screws used to fasten the drive
> to the caddy had been treated with blue LocTite.  This wasn't obvious
> from external inspection, but the telltale blue glop was on the threads
> when the screw finally let go and came out.  It was beginning to look
> like power tools were going to be needed to get it out, and the screw
> head was pretty badly torn up after removal.
>
> This is the first time I have encountered a drive screw on a removable
> drive which was, well, unremovable.  Is this a trend or are we just
> dealing with a sadistic assembler?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> David Mathog
> mathog at caltech.edu
> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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