iMac G5 Hard Drive

You may need to contact a repair facility or authorized Apple service provider who

could have some old inventory or old pulls that may have those parts attached...

Sometime reseller-repairers such as powerbookmedic.com or wegenermedia.com

(may need to call or email) could have some. These parts may interchange between

a few models; not sure if the early Intel-based iMac used exact same bracket parts.

The iFixit.com guides for mac repair should show the part and number. This search

shows a few items: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hard+drive+bracket+G5+iMac&t=ffsb

Sorry to not be able to help with an exact part or specific vintage inventory answer.

Good luck in this matter! 🙂

You could use the method I use when I fix old iPods. I go on eBay and buy a (complete) broken iPod of the same type; as long as that broken iPod is not broken for the same reason as my broken iPod, I have the part I need. And it usually costs LESS than buying the specific part from a "parts scavenger" business (who just buy used broken iPods and remove working parts to re-sell). The brackets for the hard drive are unlikely to be the reason for an iMac G5 to be broken, so you'll have the part you need plus a bunch of other spare parts that you may need in the future. At this point, it may be easier (and maybe even cheaper) to find a complete non-functional iMac G5 of the same type.

When I mess around with my older Macs, I often make things like brackets to hold components. For example, to put a 2.5-inch hard drive in the space occupied by a 3.5-inch hard drive. I found a good material to use is the annoying clear plastic packaging that is impossible to open without scissors. I can cut to appropriate size using scissors, bend/fold it as needed, and punch holes for screws. And it's not electrically conductive, so there's no chance of unintentionally causing a short-circuit. It's not perfectly rigid like a metal bracket, but that may not be critical in an iMac that stays mostly stationary.

Could use sheet-metal or wood.

I do not know the size, but maybe you could hack up a none working cd drive to hold a hd. [ maybe it was built to fit a cd drive. ]

If your hard drive gets hot enough to melt plastic, you have more serious problems... 😉 That whole iMac has a plastic casing.