buzz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mahboud Zabetian) (03/12/88)
A week or so after my SE had been living with me for 90 days, I was agonized to here a strange buzzing noise that changed frequency, and volume, every couple hours. At first I thought it was the fan having a sore throat, but after opening the Mac up I realized the problem was the little hub cap on the spinning axle of the hard disk. This noise would go away if a bit of pressure was placed on the hub, and after manipulating it in no particular fashion, the noise went away, for a few days. Then it returned to haunt me again, and I went insane and (very carefully) applied (a very minute amount of) vaseline between the hub and the axle. People at Apple are going to hate me for having done that but (a) my warranty was void anyway, (b)the hub only seems to be an electrostatic-ground connection, (c) the hard disk is quieter than ever and has been so for two weeks now, (d) at least I didn't use cooking oil, motor grease or peanut butter. I applied the vaseline by sticking a toothpick into the end of a vaseline Lip goo(?) tube, and then carefully inserted it between the hub and the axle. Don't try it since I don't accept any responsibility if you fry yourself on the CRT, or damage your Mac, or your body. I just wanted to relay that information, as I have heard two other people complaining of a new noise their Mac has been making. -- Mahboud Zabetian buzz@phoenix.princeton.edu 183 Little Hall (609) 520-1271 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 (609) 734-7760 ****** Anyone need a soon-to-graduate hardware/software engineer? ********