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Can someone post a pic of a Mac II drive sled?
Posted by: reallyrandy on 2018-03-18 13:43:35 I just picked up a sweet Mac II from pathw that needs a hard drive sled. I could fashion one from sheet metal or just print one but I'm trying to restore everything to original. I just wanna know what the original looked like. Probably the same sled as the IIx and the IIfx. Thanks
Posted by: reallyrandy on 2018-03-18 14:52:01 I found this
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2018-03-18 16:02:27 Have you checked the three service source diagram part numbers against each other? I can't imagine them changing that mounting sled for IIx or IIfx.
Posted by: reallyrandy on 2018-03-19 16:11:15 I did, I just wanted a picture so if I ran across one on ebay. It's the same sled for all the double wide Mac II series.
Posted by: Byrd on 2018-03-19 17:32:19 This would be the sled: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/MACINTOSH-MAC-IIvx-IIvi-QUADRA-650-POWERMAC-7100-HARD-DRIVE-CARRIER-922-0066/112834198877?hash=item1a45713d5d:g:MosAAOSwK~RaP~iI Cheap enough! 🙂 JB
Posted by: pathw on 2018-03-19 18:28:36 reallyrandy already has the hard drive carrier (which is part 805-0952, and looks to be different from 922-0066). What is needed is whatever came with the 5.25 inch original drive ... Looking at http://tim.id.au/laptops/apple/legacy/macintosh_ii.iix.iifx.pdf, which is where the exploded view came from, there are drawings earlier in the document that give some indication about what this was like or supposed to do (but not very informative).
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2018-03-19 19:29:20 That's a boo-boo, Byrd. NOT the right part at all.
Posted by: joethezombie on 2018-03-19 20:01:20 What is needed is whatever came with the 5.25 inch original drive Didn't the drive bolt directly to the 805-0952 carrier?
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2018-03-19 20:06:29 Just took some comparison pics, coming up shortly.
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2018-03-19 20:14:55
Posted by: oldappleguy on 2018-03-19 20:15:48 I can send you a bracket.
Posted by: pathw on 2018-03-20 21:35:51 oldappleguy, reallyrandy already has this bracket. See the photos in
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2018-03-21 06:33:41 That's funny, it's easy to imagine it looked like part of the chassis to him. I wonder what percentage of the membership has ever seen a dimunitive, half height "Fixed Disk" IRL, much less the real, full height deal? edit: and now to find a 5.25" to 3.5" adapter to go from there to a 2.5" Savvio UltraSCSI Server drive! [🙂]
Posted by: IlikeTech on 2018-03-21 06:42:30 I have one! It is in my PC/AT!
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2018-03-21 08:55:07 I've got one that's dead as a doornail. It was harvested from a very tall ZFP case under a friend's Mac Plus server. Drive's gutted for use as a case at some point and the 8 platter stack is in the artfully arranged pile of the DigiJunk in the bottom of the 17"BlueberryStudioQuarium™ project. My first HDD was a half height MFM I swapped into the Tandy 1000SX.
Posted by: oldappleguy on 2018-03-21 11:56:43
Posted by: pathw on 2018-03-21 14:31:42 That's funny, it's easy to imagine it looked like part of the chassis to him. It was my misunderstanding originally. I assumed that something else was needed, similar to the sleds that I have used for 3.5in drives with later Macs, and told reallyrandy that I was missing this piece. Note that Randy asked about a drive sled. This quickly (d)evolved into a discussion of hard drive carriers ... So - joethezombie was correct - hard drive just screwed to the carriage directly?
Posted by: reallyrandy on 2018-03-25 11:08:02 View attachment 22250 That's the one! The one on the right.Thanks trash
Posted by: reallyrandy on 2018-03-25 11:09:40 I can send you a bracket. Thanks Old Apple Guy, That's not the one I need but I do appreciate the offer!
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