26 Aug
2007
26 Aug
'07
10:56 p.m.
I am trying to get a Vax-11/750 machine up and running. It looks like the TU58 drive is
suffering from the
'gooey roller syndrome'. I see that people have successfully used 1/2 inch (ID)
Tygon tubing to replace the
goo. Is there any specific type of Tygon tubing (eg. R3603, R2000, etc.) that is used?
Thanks!
--barrym
28 Aug
28 Aug
9:39 a.m.
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, B M wrote:
I am trying to get a Vax-11/750 machine up and
running. It looks like the TU58 drive is suffering from the
'gooey roller syndrome'. I see that people have successfully used 1/2 inch (ID)
Tygon tubing to replace the
goo. Is there any specific type of Tygon tubing (eg. R3603, R2000, etc.) that is used?
Thanks!
--barrym
Hi Barry,
Congrats on the VAX... If you (like me) ran a tape through before
realizing the roller was coming apart, you have almost ruined the tape.
To attempt a recovery, clean the tape head with Isopropyl Alcohol and a
Q-tip. You need to really scrub at it until the Q-tip comes back clean.
Then try to boot the dirty tape again. When it starts to go back and
forward over the same area, pull the tape and clean the head again.
Repeat until you lose patience or the tape reads all the way through.
A couple years ago I started a project to dump all my TU58's (including
the 750 diagnostic tapes I have), but suffered a hard disk failure
midstream and never went back. If you are interested we can converse
offlist about the particulars.
Regards,
Clint
3:39 p.m.
On 8/27/07, B M <iamvirtual at gmail.com> wrote:
I am trying to get a Vax-11/750 machine up and
running. It looks like the TU58 drive
is suffering from the 'gooey roller syndrome'.
Unsurprising.
I see that people have successfully used 1/2 inch
(ID) Tygon tubing to replace the
goo. Is there any specific type of Tygon tubing (eg. R3603, R2000, etc.) that is used?
I don't know the particular variety I used in mine - I just went to
the Lowe's down the street and bought a foot of 1/2" ID tubing -
whatever they had on the shelf. I was unaware of a large amount of
varieties of tubing, so I just used what they had in stock, and it
worked perfectly.
-ethan
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