17 Dec
2016
17 Dec
'16
1:28 a.m.
On Dec 16, 2016, at 4:43 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at
mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
Disconnecting controllers from the drive electronics, or main drive logic boards from the
head cabling, might be a reasonable thing to do.
Disassembling the mechanics is quite another matter. The spindle and head actuator
assemblies are precision mechanisms with very tight tolerances and alignment requirements.
It's not clear if those are documented since messing with them in the field would not
be normal practice. And I suspect that few, if any, of us have the tools or metrological
skills to reassemble dismantled drives.
Some are less fussy. I know from having seen it done that you can take an RF11 drive
apart and rebuild it, though chances are you might have to reformat it if you do. But the
tolerances on those are incredibly loose compared to moving head drives.
paul
From: Henk Gooijen
I really do not want to mess with the mechanical
construction of the
entire RP03 drive. ... I want to move them "as is".
Well, don't forget, you're probably going to want to go through them
thoroughly before you try and use them, and you might do a fair amount of
dis-assembly for that anyway. So a certain amount of 'taking apart' to get
it out would be useful.