[Ti] screws in hard drive?

[Pedro Vera]

Small Torx look almost like hex because it is too small for you to notice the star pattern.

I got mine at Home Depot (less than $7-$8). It is a designed to be used like micro screwdrivers 
(you put pressure on the tool with your thumb while you rotate it with your other fingers). The 
handle is hollow to hold the extra bits, and each bit is double-sided. I don't remember all the 
sizes mine got and I am too lazy to walk over to my bag, but I remember with just that tool and 
a couple micro screwdrivers I tore apart my old iBook (and yes, I remember the HDD screws) 
when I sold it for parts. And the tool was enough to open my Ti book when I installed the airport 
card. 

Thanks,

Pedro Vera
http://pedrovera.com
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From: Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout at cs.utk.edu>
To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:22:10 -0400
Subject: [Ti] screws in hard drive?

> Tibook 500 with the original IBM travelstar 30G drive.
> 
> The manual I found claims that a Torx T8 will fit both the screws in 
> the bottom and the ones in the side of the hard drive. Not true. The 
> ones in the bottom are Phillips. The ones in the side of the hard 
> drive look strange. They look six-sided, but none of my hex keys 
> fit. Do I need to get some new screw driver of a kind I've never 
> seen before? Torx is not hex?
> -- 
> Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout at cs.utk.edu>, 329 Claxton, Comp Sci, UT, 
> Knoxville TN 37996.
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