18 Dec
2007
18 Dec
'07
7:39 p.m.
On 18 Dec 2007 at 20:29, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
Seocndly, if you fiddle with the video heads
themselves, be warned they
are delicate. They are brittle ferrite cors, the windings are thin and
brought out to little BCPs stuck in postiion. If you break the wires
you'll not be able to fix them.If the PCB comes uncluged, it'll break the
wires. And if the head tip bangs into anything it will shatter. That is
the bitter voice of experience from the time I rebuilt the head assembly
in a portable rell-to-reel VTR (sorry it's off-topic, so I'll stop there).
I was going to suggest a head from a Telcan video recorder as being
more suitable, but I doubt that there are many of those around.
Maybe a head from one of the cheap floppytape QIC drives might also
do the trick.
Cheers,
Chuck