Universal Hard Disk Drive problem discovered

[Guy Macon]

I don't right now either. Always mucking about with the guts.

My PC will catch fire if I run it without the cover.
(Compaq 5500R with quad processors).

 

[Guy Macon]

I've always assumed that US 'duct tape' is what we call
'Gaffer tape' here in the UK.

In the US, the term "Gaffer's Tape" refers only to real Gaffer's
Tape, never to Duct Tape, and the term is is used primarily in
the TV and film industry.

Duct Tape has a smooth, usually gray, plastic surface. Gaffer's
Tape has a cloth, usually black cloth surface. The adhesive used
on Gaffer's tape will not pull paint off of a wall or leave behind
any adhesive residue. Duct Tape will. There is a variation on
Gaffers tape with low temperature adhesive designed to seal film
cans which are stored under refrigeration.

My favorite uses for gaffer's tape:

Cover the red light on the camera so an actor who plays to the camera
doesn't know which one is live.

Taping down actress's assets so they don't bounce so much (Used on
Carrie Fisher for Star Wars).

Custom colored version designed in such a way that it matches the
carpet perfectly (is invisible) to the camera but is easily seen
by the actor who needs to hit his mark.

Fixing light leaks of various kinds.

Covering that huge annoying brand name painted on the back of a
synthesiser.

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

In the US, the term "Gaffer's Tape" refers only to real Gaffer's
Tape, never to Duct Tape, and the term is is used primarily in
the TV and film industry.

My favorite film/TV supply item is called "snot tape". It's
essentially adhesive tape without the tape- just adhesive and backing.

That and "Reel Blood", which comes in several variations (old,
oxygenated, etc.)

http://www.makeupmania.com/details/IA-0021-10-000.cfm

Seems a touch pricey at $130 US/gallon, but probably few movies
outside of the slasher genre need that much fake blood. ;-)

You can also buy aerosol armpit stains and grass stains.

It's fun having a movie industry in town.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Robert Latest]

I've always assumed that US 'duct tape' is what we call 'Gaffer tape' here in
the UK.

Hard wearing stuff with an awesome adhesive and a PVC coating ?

Duct tape is a combination of a wide mesh of threads and a touggh
plastic foil. It comes in either silver or black with a shiny
surface, it's hard to get off stuff without glue residue, and it
stinks. Gaffer tape is more cloth-like, can easily be torn off if
you do it right, leaves no residue, comes in a variety of colors,
doesn't stink, and costs about four times as much as duct tape.

The UK name originates from the use of an 'old gaffer' on most film sets to
'fix things up' - usually involving tape.

If a gaffer were using duct instead of gaffer tape it'd be his
last job with that particular DP.

robert

 

[Pooh Bear]

In the US, the term "Gaffer's Tape" refers only to real Gaffer's
Tape, never to Duct Tape, and the term is is used primarily in
the TV and film industry.

Duct Tape has a smooth, usually gray, plastic surface. Gaffer's
Tape has a cloth, usually black cloth surface. The adhesive used
on Gaffer's tape will not pull paint off of a wall or leave behind
any adhesive residue. Duct Tape will. There is a variation on
Gaffers tape with low temperature adhesive designed to seal film
cans which are stored under refrigeration.

I'd say that UK gaffer tape is indeed the same as your duct tape. We
don't have anything called 'duct tape' here. Maybe that's 'cos we don't
fix any 'ducts' that way ? ;-)

I'd also guess that US gaffer's tape is what we'd call camera tape here.


Graham

 

[Charlie Edmondson]

I was So Glad when I got old enough not to hear the scream from
unsynced TV monitors in studios. But I was on the beach campsite a
couple of months ago and could hear a piezo igniter clicking 25m away,
cos the fridge had run out of butane. Thats the problem being an ex
sound maintainence engineer, you listen for the noise, and not the
music. Think its called "professional deformation"


martin

I still remember my old days as a step by step telephony equipment
maintainer. You stand talking to a visitor, and suddenly, you stop,
walk clear across an entire room of noisy switches and equipment, and
busy out the bad switch (one out of several thousand in the room.) You
just heard it...

Charlie

 

[Pooh Bear]

Duct tape is a combination of a wide mesh of threads and a touggh
plastic foil. It comes in either silver or black with a shiny
surface, it's hard to get off stuff without glue residue, and it
stinks. Gaffer tape is more cloth-like, can easily be torn off if
you do it right, leaves no residue, comes in a variety of colors,
doesn't stink, and costs about four times as much as duct tape.

No question about it. US and UK usage are different.

Most UK gaffer tape is indeed silver or black too but I used to get mine from a
market stall that undercut the normal list price quite seriously. It was convenient
too as I all I had to do was go to the market on a Saturday which I usually did
anyway.

http://www.stalbans.gov.uk/tourism/markets.htm

They had various colours from time to time. For some reason yellow and blue stick
in my mind.

If a gaffer were using duct instead of gaffer tape it'd be his
last job with that particular DP.

Depends what you're trying to do !

I once stuck an audio multicore to a wall quite successfully with 'our' gaffer
tape. Shame about the paint though. ;-)

Graham

 

[colin]

Zero. I pulled the noisy drives, swaddled them in bubble-wrap, and
jammed them back into the bays. Hard drives don't need cooling, do
they?

me too xept i use a couple of lengths of pipe insulator
slit down the length, then pushed over the sides
then they just rest on the botom of the case,
stops any vibration trasmiting through to the case at least

Colin =^.^=

 

[Colin Dawson]

Zero. I pulled the noisy drives, swaddled them in bubble-wrap, and
jammed them back into the bays. Hard drives don't need cooling, do
they?


John

Total number of screws holding my entire PC together = Zero!

Screws are too much like hard work, in fact, so is the case, you don't need
one. Just shove everything on a workbench, just make sure that there's no
metal lying about. I don't even have any heat problems either.

 

[Clifford Heath]

That and "Reel Blood", which comes in several variations (old,
oxygenated, etc.)
Seems a touch pricey at $130 US/gallon, but probably few movies
outside of the slasher genre need that much fake blood. ;-)

The local film industry uses a mixture of chocolate topping and a
food dye called "Pillarbox red". We've made it for kids parties,
along with fake flesh - cornflour (IIRC) dough coloured with
instant coffee - and a few other things for making fake wounds.
You press on the dough, then cut a big slash through it and colour
with the "blood", which runs then glazes to look exactly like real
blood. Even an amateur can make wounds that would make a passer-by
throw up - the kids loved it!

Clifford.

Oh, I believe that "real" duct tape is metal foil, the grey/silver
plastic tape is just made to look like it.