23 Jan
2016
23 Jan
'16
7:05 a.m.
The other thing to be aware of is the emergency head
retract batteries are toast and should
be replaced with a 3.6v NiCd pack, that way if the power fails you don't trash a
pack.
I thought originally it was a 4.8V pack (4 cells). Over here a common cordless telephone
used the
same pack about 20 years ago, so spares for that (available quite easily) went in my
RK05s...
The RK06/RK07 has an 8 cell pack, it's exactly 2 RK05 packs in series.
They are really nice drives for saying they where
DEC's first removable media hard drive, a
bit heavy to move but not that bad.
I can't get one onto the rack sliders on my own if it's fully assembled. I
normally remove
the PSU and positioner and then it is quite easy...
-tony