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Criggie
Criggie
00:47
4mm hex tool bits are tiny.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@Criggie I don't see a problem :D
@Criggie one would assume. I think phone repair kits have them in the smaller hex bit driver size?
Criggie
Criggie
01:06
yeah - less diameter means lower torque maximums, less chance of stripping out.
But the numbers are so damn small
I mean you can tell a philips #2 from a #3 by looking at it.
But a T4 from a T5 ? Have to read the stampings to be sure.
 
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Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
06:32
tbh, I generally just grab a vaguely correct set, then switch between bits till it works
 
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BMitch
BMitch
20:17
This is the way.
 
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Criggie
Criggie
21:40
yeah - but at those sizes the difference is significant.
Storytime: I work in a large corporate, we have old laptops to donate, but we don't have an approved wiping method.
So I had a stack of mac laptops to pull the SSD out of for indefinite storage. Crappy solution I know
My screwdriver set had T4 and T6 drivers. 6 is too big, so I was using the T4 to remove the disk screw
And it was super-hjard to turn, I presumed it was thread locked.
The T4 ended up snapping its tip off under hand pressure
So I borrowed a T4 from someone else's much larger set, and broke that one too.
I tried a T5 from that larger set and it worked perfectly, with about a quarter of the torque needed.
So yeah T4 to T5 is a significant difference
 
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Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
23:20
@Criggie its actually a surprisingly common thing.
At job -3 or 4 I was basically doing a refresh and a good chunk of my job was shucking hard drives from machines
Criggie
Criggie
23:48
yeah - but we had a process approved for wiping disks.
Then the software became "unavailable" and noone could agree on a repalcemnt
I have 2014 mac minis stacked up here with no SSD
Not completely useless machines, but no disk means netbooting or USB booting, which is slow.
Macs don't use m.2 SSD they ahve a weird proprietary connector

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