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There were 4 screws needed to mount the drive onto the bracket, the 40 way ribbon cable and molex power cable were obvious how to connect, the bracket was then screwed down into the base of the unit with a further 4 screws (all of 5 mins work).

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  1. noun A simple rigid structure in the shape of an L, one arm of which is fixed to a vertical surface, the other projecting horizontally to support a shelf or other weight.
  2. noun A small shelf or shelves supported by such structures.
  3. noun Architecture A decorative or weight-bearing structural unit, two sides of which form a right angle with one arm flush against a wall and the other flush beneath a projecting surface, such as eaves or a bay window.
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  • We had Kansas winning our bracket, so that's cool, but the rest of our bracket was in utter shambles, so it hardly matter. —  Dealbreaker
  • The Warhawks -- who reached the national semifinals last year and took third place -- joined fellow WIAC member UW-Eau Claire as at-large entrants to the NCAA Division III tournament when the bracket was announced Monday morning. —  Madison.com - top
  • American threatening to ruin my bracket, which is cool —  Blog updates
  • - One thing I anticipated that came to fruition when doing this bracket is the amount of muddled mediocre teams in the 4 seed to 7 seed range of the bracket. —  Rush The Court
  • I used VersaMagic Tea Leaves to ink the H monogram and VersaMagic Midnight Black to ink the rest of letters / bracket -- I've found this is a great ink to stick to the larger flat surface of these bigger fonts. —  PaperFections
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clamp ·  hinge ·  screw ·  lever ·  bolt ·  fitting ·  rod ·  latch ·  pin ·  socket ·  fixture ·  rack

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bracket:   brackets
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  1. Possibly French braguette, codpiece, diminutive of brague, breeches, from Old Provençal braga, from Latin brācae, from Gaulish brāca, leg covering.

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  1. Early modern English bragget; prob. connected with Spanish bragueta, a kind of quarter or projecting molding, a particular use of bragueta (=Old French braguette), the opening of the fore part of a pair of breeches, from Spanish Portuguese bragas, breeches: see breech. The word is usually associated with brace.
  2. from bracket, n.
 

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