11 Jul
2000
11 Jul
'00
12:49 p.m.
CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com wrote:
This was true on the DEC drives as well.
The glass bead tape used an alcohol soluble glue...
A little iso occasionally was supposed to be ok... but be really careful
with the stuff.
Replacing the glass-bead tape was quite fun...
Bill
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There *are* some parts on tape drives that
aren't supposed to be
cleaned with alcohol. Some rollers and vacuum column sensors fall
into this category.
Maybe some vacuum columns too. HP OEM'd an STC drive (to get a
6250bpi drive to market in a hurry) and called it the HP7976. The HP
CE-supplied rumor back in the day was that alcohol would loosen the
glue that held all those tiny glass beads to the walls of the vacuum
columns!
-Frank McConnell