On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 arcarlini at
iee.org wrote:
Never having build a drive from rocks isn't going
to stop me
from speculating.
old drives are usually cheaper than rocks, and sometimes they don't
require as much machining
Are there any other parts (other than the head) which
would be
difficult to fabricate from scratch?
I have a hard enough time with door pins on TM100 drives. But, it would
seem that the media and heads would be the only part that couldn't be done
in a reasonably well equipped garage.