On Friday (03/18/2011 at 08:44PM +0000), Tony Duell wrote:
Some of the other suggestions about blowing the pack off with compressed air,
etc. might be good advice as well.
I don;t knowwhere you get the compressed air from, but some compressors
do put a significant amount of oil in the air. The RK05 manuals warn
aobut this, it's it a very bad idea to put oil on th disk or heads :-)
Good point Tony. Here, I have an oil-less compressor and if I use
tools that require oil, I usually add the oil to the tool or use an
inline oiler at the tool itself. I also have seperate air lines that
are labeled as "oil" and "not oil"... But not all air compressors
and
associated accessories are setup this way... that's for sure.
I am told (but have never tried it) that those cans of
compressed air
used for cleaning cameras, etc, aregood for blowing the dust off
disk packs.
Yes... but I bet you can empty one in short order blowing off both sides
of a whole pack.
I believe another poster had a complete run down on cleaning packs on
this list within the last week or so. He was using a wipe of some sort
and alcohol on the media surface too I believe.
Chris
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Chris Elmquist