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Engraving the disk platter

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How to build a fully working noiseless HDD clock. Almost a piece of art !

jp-gleyzesJP Gleyzes 07/08/2022 at 10:350 Comments

You need now to design a nice "clock platter". 

The disk geometry is directly influencing this design.
You need to make a precise plan of the disk, axis positions, head arm lenght... and to report all this into a CAD software. here is my design for my old samsung disk.

Here is the dxf file for this drawing


A have tested several ways to transfer this drawing on the disk.:

this video has been accelerated (High speed milling) 


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