Where Can I Buy Jumper Pins?

March 31, 2006 12:17 PM

I've been trying to find an online store that will sell me a single (or a small number) jumper pin for a hard drive. I'm having trouble finding a store that sells them
posted by Cookie Monster to Computers & Internet (12 answers total)

Go to just a local store and say "do you have any extra jumpers" and probably they will give you a bunch.
posted by aubilenon at 12:20 PM on March 31, 2006

Radio Shack?
posted by unixrat at 12:21 PM on March 31, 2006

did you try digikey.com? search under 'jumpers'... or try the live online chat or try calling them. They usually have everything an electronics hobbyist would ever need.
I'd be surprised if Radioshack didn't have it, too.

Of course you could always steal the jumper off your co-worker's hard drive... ;)
posted by jak68 at 12:22 PM on March 31, 2006

aubilenon's right, any store that does computer service will have a pile and would give you one for free or cheap.
posted by Capn at 12:26 PM on March 31, 2006

Look inside your current computer. Any jumpers sitting on only one pin are not being used and can be taken without affecting anything.

What aubilenon said will work too. The IT department at your school/company or your geeky nephew who built a robot will probably have one as well.
posted by bondcliff at 12:35 PM on March 31, 2006

Email me your address and I can throw a couple in an envelope for ya if you don't have any luck finding any close by.
posted by Ateo Fiel at 1:12 PM on March 31, 2006

Cyberguys is the place—they even have a few/lot of the dinky pins for jumping 1.8" and 2.5" laptop hard drives.
posted by Yeomans at 2:23 PM on March 31, 2006

What you're looking for is "Shunts". Jumper is a slang term.

Try this Froogle search.
posted by SlyBevel at 4:13 PM on March 31, 2006

in my town I would go to the dump - there's always a pile of old computers there to pillage
posted by kaytrem at 5:03 PM on March 31, 2006

They are currently out but there's 4 jumpers and other grabbag crippety crap at geeks.com. I'd just go to the goodwill and steal one off of a hard drive but that's me :>
posted by psychobum at 3:03 AM on April 1, 2006

Also, you might not need it. The only time you typically need a jumper is to set the slave drive.
posted by psychobum at 3:04 AM on April 1, 2006

Could you not just connect the pins with a piece of wire?
posted by blag at 12:52 PM on April 2, 2006