Rubber bands.

Felino · Post by **Felino** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:02 am

Well, in your cd drive there is a little rubber band that opens the draw right?

Now, people at my school delight in taking them and snapping them. I found out today that they are $4 each, thats right each. and we need about 50 or so. so i got comissioned to find heaps for a low price.

They are around 22mm, and black plastic of some sort. I need to find a place that sells them.

Help?

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:09 am

...What? I've never heard of this. Springs in CD-ROM drives I've heard of... but not rubber bands. Picture please?

Felino · Post by **Felino** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:26 am

I currently don't have a camera but do this.

open your cd drive, in the hole that is left, there is a small puly, and a larger one, conected by a rubber band, this is only on some drives mind you. others have a direct drive.

HotDog-Cart · Post by **HotDog-Cart** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:31 am

I know what your talking about. My girlfreinds computer is missing the band, and its very loud and the drive wouldnt go back in. Try buying them in bulk online.

twilightprincess · Post by **twilightprincess** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:56 am

This always happens at my school. It's wierd that the pc's don't run without the band in...must have some sensor or something.

Felino · Post by **Felino** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:19 am

'Buy them bulk online'
Yes but were!

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:43 pm

Try ebay mybe im not to sure.
Is it a pully or a band? if its a pully maybe you could mesure it and goole that

Dr. KillGood · Post by **Dr. KillGood** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:32 pm

Felino wrote:Well, in your cd drive there is a little rubber band that opens the draw right?

Now, people at my school delight in taking them and snapping them. I found out today that they are $4 each, thats right each. and we need about 50 or so. so i got comissioned to find heaps for a low price.

They are around 22mm, and black plastic of some sort. I need to find a place that sells them.

Help?

Go to office depot and you can buy large bags of small rubber bands for like $2-$3 and they should work fine.

They did it at my school too so freaking annoying...

Post by **bicostp** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:57 pm

If you have one and can measure it, you might be able to find a suitable replacement from <a href="http://www.mcmaster.com/">McMaster-Carr.</a>

Why do stupid kids always destroy the computers?

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:15 pm

bicostp wrote:Why do stupid kids always destroy the computers?

Ya, its not even funny. Funny is swapping the monitor, mouse, and/or keyboard cables with 2 computers next to each other and watching the unsuspecting person come in and spend a few minutes figuring out whats wrong. Or using Firefox and being the only person in your web design class that can get the pages made for Netscape to work right.

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Post by **lifeisbetterwithketchup** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:53 pm

vskid wrote:
bicostp wrote:Why do stupid kids always destroy the computers?
Ya, its not even funny. Funny is swapping the monitor, mouse, and/or keyboard cables with 2 computers next to each other and watching the unsuspecting person come in and spend a few minutes figuring out whats wrong. Or using Firefox and being the only person in your web design class that can get the pages made for Netscape to work right.

Or taking screenshots at home and viewing them fullscreen, freaking out everyone ("OMG how did you change the background!!!1"). Or (this was done last year by some guy at my school, and he got suspended or something for it) VNC into a computer across the room, open an MS Word document on it, and start typing "This is God; how are you doing today?" and asking the person awkward questions.

benol · Post by **benol** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:56 pm

Another funny thing to do: ctrl+alt+down. It flips the screen!

Post by **bicostp** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:28 pm

lifeisbetterwithketchup wrote:VNC into a computer across the room, open an MS Word document on it, and start typing "This is God; how are you doing today?" and asking the person awkward questions.

I remember one time I made all the screensavers say a message, but added a twist!

Each machine only got one word. While the room was in use it would only look like "all are belong" (since there were almost always more computers than people), but the next class to go in the room after all the computers went to screensaver mode got the entire message.

And of course there's always this classic bit (just press the keys):

PrtScr, Windows key + R, mspaint, Enter, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+R Enter, Ctrl+F

But we should get back on topic.

Kids taking apart, abusing, and stuffing things into the disc drives became so much of a problem at my old high school that they actually removed the drives and put filler plates in. (Hey it was better than their old strategy: krazy glue.) You might want to suggest this. (It's easy to throw a drive onto a computer if it's needed.)

Felino · Post by **Felino** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:32 am

Even better is using 'net send [username] [message]' and then saying you are god or whatever.

Now, normal rubber bands aren't the best. They slip and stretch. And generally aren;t the right size. And those things are a pain in the @ss to get on. You try it

Thanks..

thehackerinside · Post by **thehackerinside** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:42 pm

Electric Rain wrote:...What? I've never heard of this. Springs in CD-ROM drives I've heard of... but not rubber bands. Picture please?

See here!

As for getting the "drive belts" I would go round the repair shops and ask them, sure they will be able to get them cheap and in bulk.

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