RSS/AtomA Raspberry Pi 5 VT100 Cyberdeck build - Part 2 - NVME upgrade
I took this opportunity to upgrade to a larger NVME SSD: Patriot P320 512GB Internal SSD. This should be plenty of room to play with VMs or Kubernetes.
I also decided to reinstall the OS at this point.
Ordinarily this would be a 5 minute job, just unscrew the base pull out the old drive, put in the new one and bolt it back together.
Somehow in this process, I managed to turn one pair of standoffs into lock nuts, so what should have been a simple job turned into several hours with a Dremel.
Montage
Long story short, I managed to remove the stuck standoff by:
- Protecting the PCB with masking tape
- Grinding off the screw head
- Removing the screw and NVME base
- Cutting the standoff in half with a cut-off wheel
- Remove all traces of metal filings (hopefully)
This was NOT fun:
Somehow, after all the sparks, grinding and Dremel skips, the board still worked and I was able to switch to the new NVME and install Raspberry Pi OS with Raspberry Pi Imager.
Needless to say these metal standoffs are not going back in this build, so I designed a new standoff system with 3D printed supports and threaded inserts and uploaded it to printables.com.
The 3D printed mounts leave a nice stack held together firmly.
Next
Mount the board and speaker to the case