heavy stuff -- was: Anyone want an RK11-C manual?

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Henk Gooijen <henk.gooijen at hotmail.com> wrote: I'm doing an RA80-like thing soon. Actually an R80, going at the bottom of a half-height rack for the 11/730. I am building that one up in the rack. No way am I lifting it fully assembled (and actually DEC suggest you remove the HDA first). > I really do not want to mess with the mechanical construction of the entire RP03 > drive. They are too rare. I want to move them ?as is?. The only thing that can be > done easily is removing the side panels. Maybe I have more (unjustified) confidnnce in my abilities to get things back together again, but in my case I think I would feel there was less risk of damage if I took the thing apart than if I tried to move it assembled. I wouldn't touch the heads or positioner parts (A full alignment would be 'interesting') but I would certainly remove the spindle all PCBs, mains transformer/PSU parts, blower, etc. > However, the ceiling in the cellar has an opening although that is currently welded > by a closing lid. The system was installed in the 80ties, and it is not remembered > how the system got into the cellar back then. The system has operated in that cellar > for almost 20 years (PDP-11/40, RP11, Kennedy 9100 ? 3 H960 rack system). > I used wooden planks (shelves) laid on the stairs, and then pushed the racks up. > It was heavy, even for 3 strong guys --- OK, 2.5 ? I removed the Kennedy tape Get more strong friends :-). Be warned that unless they have experience in moving classic computers you might regret it, -tony