DEC RL01/02, RK05/06/07 Cartridge Inspector/Cleaner

At 03:06 PM 5/5/2004 -0400, Ashley Carder wrote: The inspector cleaner allows you to hold the raw platter and to examine and clean it safely. In order to properly align an RK05 you need an alignment pack which has special "data" written at special locations. That together with a two channel o-scope, the manual and a few basic tools will allow you to adjust the in/out position of each head. The biggest problems with maintaining RK05s is that the foam which is used at various locations in the drive, including in the air path, disintegrates and turns to dust and/or goo. If you carefully clean out all of the old foam/dust/goo, you can fairly easily replace it with new foam purchased from a fabric store (or similar). A more difficult problem is that the molded plastic/rubber tube which ducts the air into the disk area also disintegrates over time. I haven't had to come up with a solution for this problem yet... --tom >Ashley > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Joe R." <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> >To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> >Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:34 AM >Subject: DEC RL01/02, RK05/06/07 Cartridge Inspector/Cleaner > > > > Any of you that are interested in the old DEC disk drive systems