DEC RK05F videos and pictures - running it naked!

Hi Al, Hm.. You think that the platter could come lose and distribute its kinetic energy to arbitrary directions inclusive cutting my hand, arm, leg, face, or whatever gets into its way? I have not yet encountered a platter moving from the spindle while operating. The disk is centered mechanically and the holding force is quite impressive. It was rather difficult to remove the platter after the show: It bent a lot while pulling it only at two points (i.e. with my two hands). And if you really get a mad rotating platter, I doubt that it would be really harmful (except the very unlikely case that it is torn into pieces ("shrapnel") while spinning: It has no sharp edges and is very smooth except for the four screws and the sector slots. In fact I touched the rotating platter edge with my hand while taking the photographs. It's not a saw. (Adding saw teeth to the edge would make the device much more interesting) BTW the border between being brave and ignorant or even insane is quite unclear and a subject of discussion in uncounted works of classic and modern literature :-) Haha! 898 is the picture I like most! Exactly for THAT reason! Look at the picture again. Take a very close look. What is touching what? Look at the cables and the capacitor in the background. They reveal what is shown in the picture. Regards, Philipp -- http://www.hachti.de