2 Jul
2007
2 Jul
'07
5:07 p.m.
On 2 Jul 2007 at 13:40, Fred Cisin wrote:
Instead of replacing the drives, we bought a large
quantity of doors and
hinges. When the college switched to mostly new machines, the college
administrators threw out our box of repair parts, rendering all subsequent
ones that broke "unrepairable".
The drives with the broken plastic holding the guide pin can be
repaired with a bit of ingenuity.
I saw the slam-bang behavior with the Micropolis "squeeze to close"
type of drives--folks would just quickly flip the door open and let
it bang against the stop. Micropolis drives, fortunately, were built
like a brick outhouse and could take the abuse. We tried replacing
the Micropolis drives with Tandons and had door problems in the field
all too frequently. I think we eventually went to MPIs for awhile.
There just weren't that many manufacturers of 100 TPI drives at any
time.
Cheers,
Chuck