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Kompu Kid wrote:
> "Mike Easter"
>> Kompu Kid wrote:

>>> Any suggestions as to how to hold the original rubber strips in
place?
>>
>> recessed rubber rails.

>> I would imagine that the shocks to the hdd would be increased to an
>> unknown degree -- either significantly or insignificantly.

> There are also holes on the side of
> the housing that a number protrusions on the back side of the rubber
> rails would engage in. We made sure that the rubber railing is seated
> properly, and the protrusions are in the holes. However, these were to
> no avail.
>
> If I had a machine shop, I would make a tool from very thin steel to
> hold these rubber rail in place...

I think I would prefer slippery plastic strips barely thicker than
plastic electrical tape but without the adhesive somehow temporarily
applied thru' out the length of the rubber rail.  I guess those little
rubber protrusions are supposed to keep the rubber rail from being
pulled out of its recess slot by the friction of the drive sliding in
tightly.

With the plastic strip in place, the hdd would hopefully not be exerting
any traction/friction/stiction force to dislodge the rubber rail strips.
Then the plastic strips would be withdrawn after the back end of the hdd
is seated.

This is the kind of question I'll bet a mac repair tech has encountered
before.  I haven't looked around yet for a mac webforum.

> Alternately, I wonder if we can take the plastic casing out and expose
> the hard drive housing.

Never having disassembled a macbook, I don't know, but I suspect that
even disassembled, the hdd's recess/cranny is a 'closed' compartment.



-- 
Mike Easter