Harddisk Tuning with Lego

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The harddisk becomes slower. Everybody knows it. Now professional help is needed. Now Lego comes into the came

Lego Team assist in hard disk problems

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20 team members attending for work

The Lego team arrives fast and keeps what it promises: every PC problem will be solved.
Each member is a specialist in his field and carries along his tools.

Harddisk is transported savely to the workplace

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Everbody takes part!

Today a harddisk must be gnerally overhauled. It is slow, not usable for any user.
The lego team carries the disk on giant wooden area, because it is not conducting.
A backup has been performed by the user (everybody hopes).

Sensefully loosing the nuts

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Specialist looses nuts.

Unfastening the nuts must be done with sure instinct. Our Blue does it with experience. Afterwards he calls the team to lift the top cover.

8 Team Members carry Top Cover

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8 strong men lift the top cover

Eight men are needed to lift the top cover. The Blue mucks in, although being a specialist in nuts and bolts. Thats the only way to achieve the technical parts of the harddisk they habe to tune.

Protective Clothing is needed

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The Orange works very serious.

All team members wear protective clothings, nearly all an helmet. Some have only the heart to tune the harddisk with an airtank.
The Orange is well known for his enthusiastic work, he is often called maniac for housework. The top cover isn’t removed yet, and he starts brushing.

Bulging needs Sensivity and a heavy Hammer

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Bulging with sensivity and hammer

The experts discover the buckle in the harddisk immediately. They bulge each slice of the harddisk with heavy hammers.
The specialists of the lego team smile under their helmets most of the time when doing this exhausting work.

Degaussing the harddisk

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Strong magnets in experts hand

The experts feared it: The magnetization of the harddisk varies. It differs in very short distances. The specialists lent giant magnets from their railway co-workers.
They spread the magnetic charges equally over the surface of the harddisk. (A backup has been done before, they hope.)

Grinding the harddisk speeds it up

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Steelwool against (data) smut

The lego team removes the data smut with normal household steelwool. (What kind of data might that has been? tststs)

Removing Dust from harddisk

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Disk cleaning with the lego experts

The dust removal is done by a quarter of the team. Especially the Orange is happy. At long last he can use his brush. But his experts eyes discover very quickly that the harddisk must be polished extremely.

Polishing the harddisk

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Giant-size pack abrasive

The harddisk must be polished without stripes. Using the abrasive of the specialized trade the lego team has no difficulties performig this part of work. They brought the giant-size pack with them.

Harddisk with mirrorfinish

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Nearly ready: Orange polishes the disk

The Orange is glad, now he can polish the harddisk. With gyratic movements he gets the harddisk to high gloss.

The completing fastening of the top cover does the lego team with hands down.
Restoring the data they left over to the experienced user.


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