3 Nov
2010
3 Nov
'10
1:08 p.m.
the rotacional position of the step motor. Ok, I
aligned the drive, but it
shown some read errors. The head was dirty.
I am not sure I should admit this, but I once spent an afternooning
working trhogu hthe read amplifier of a Commodore 8250LP that was giving
read errors. Only after spending a couple of hours on it (and finding no
fault) did I clean the heads...
So, he wetted his finger on the mouth, rubbed the wet finger in the
drive head, cleaned with his shirt..."Presto, it works!" he said. And
unbelieveably, it was clean and working as it should always had.
I shouted loud...For me, he had finished my drive. But I learned that
things in the floppie world wasn't so fragile as I have learned before. And
i cleaned my drives many times using this method, when there wasn't alchool
around.
Apparently it was once somewhat common to clean the heads of a VCR by
spraying head cleaner onto your finger, hodling it agains the drum and
rotating the latter using the other hand. I never tried it...
-tony