27 Feb
2014
27 Feb
'14
12:30 p.m.
On 02/27/2014 11:25 AM, Marc Howard wrote:
Last night I cleaned the hell out of both the heads
and the disk pack. I
even tried Brakekleen on the leading surface of the bottom head but it
didn't remove anything. I had the best results with putting lint free
cloth soaked in 99.9% isopropyl alcohol between the loaded heads. Got the
top head clean except for a wide line somewhat less than 0.1" wide that
goes from top to bottom. It's so perfect it looks like the head was
somehow made that way. Bottom head only had a few small blemishes left.
Well, good for you! I went rummaging around a bit in my hellbox looking
for several rolls of 3M diamond lapping tape that I picked up years ago,
but no luck. The stuff is great--you can use the half-micron stuff on a
scratched-up head and it would come out looking like new.
--Chuck