20 Apr
2007
20 Apr
'07
11:11 p.m.
Subject: Re: Micropolis 1355 ESDI hard drive "sticky bumpers" Fixed!
From: Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:12:23 -0700 (PDT)
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
--- Andy Piercy <andy.piercy at gmail.com> wrote:
Outright removal is the easiest. You hear a clunk when the head returns
but I've nver had any that showed adverse side effects from that.
Allison
Allison,
Well hats off to you, it worked!
I have now fixed the faulty internals of the two
faulty Micropolis hard
drives by teasing out the black gooey mass that use
to be the head park
rebound bumper / end stops for each drive.
They had turned into a black sticky mush and as you
correctly identified
were holding the heads from un-parking.
When removing this bumper, are you replacing it with
something (say, a stick-on rubber foot) or simply
removing it entirely?