Correction: I have a 1.42 gig, I am replacing it w/ a 1.25. Got confused. (walks away shaking his head)
Charles Lenington wrote: > I had 2 reply's of list, for the archives I am forwarding the results. > See bottom. > > > emelvy wrote: > >> Nov. 23, 2008 >> >> [Charles: I sent a similar message yesterday, but it has not been >> posted on this iMac list despite the confirmation message I got >> when I posted it. I've re-posted just now; here's a private reply >> in case it again fails to get onto the list.] >> >> I bought a clear acrylic base for my eMac. It came with an Allen >> wrench which I measured mine yesterday. Across the flats, it is >> 0.096 or 0.097 inch. (It looked like 0.0965" on my dial micrometer, >> but I can't be sure of that last digit.) >> >> I don't know whether this size is normally included in sets of Allen >> wrenches, nor does it seem to be a metric size. I don't know where >> you should go to get one, but perhaps Apple will supply one. Since >> the same screws are used elsewhere on the eMac to hold it in its >> case, I would suppose that any Apple repair shop has to have this >> size of wrench on hand. >> >> On Nov 22, 1:33 am, Charles Lenington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> Anybody know off the top of their head what size allen/hex wrench the >>> screws for the clear/acrylic base takes? I can't find my big set and >>> hate to buy a new set. >>> >>> Charles >>> >>> >> >> > Bruce J. looked it up in a service manual. It said 2.5mm, but luckily > (yeah right) I had to buy a set (cheapest), the one in this 1.25 gig is > 2.0mm. At least I didn't have to go back to town (12 miles one way). > > Charles > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
