25 Apr
2005
25 Apr
'05
11:52 a.m.
On Apr 21, 2005, at 9:46 AM, jim stephens wrote:
<snip
> Ok... I'll probably end up taking
some photos so I can make sure I'm
> doing the right thing.
I liked what you posted so far, post as many as you have time to!
Will do! Unfortunately, this weekend was completely overtaken with
other stuff, so the Eclipse had to wait. My girlfriend has basically
told me "Help me with these things, and you can have the whole summer
to play with your new toy".
More photos to come...
the longer you can run this, not just an hour, the better that you can
rely on having things die w/o the heads loaded, as tom has had happen.
run it for 24 hrs. it should be no stretch to do that. If it is still
spinning
and functional at that point, then at least the main things that you
want
to have running will not have failed, and the heads will be safe.
That's an excellent idea. I will do that.
Mark
At least my 6070 has a toggle switch inside, on
the servo board,
that disables the head servos; DISABLE, power the drive up switch
to RUN and let it purge for an hour; this is recommended in the
service docs. The platters will spin, brush cycle runs, air pumps,
presumably flings off all the dust.
Appreciate the advice... I'll try to get into the drive by this
weekend, and run a test on it.