On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:41 AM, js at cimmeri.com <js at cimmeri.com> wrote: I undid the few screws holding the arm assembly in place, and was able to rotate it a little further until the heads came off the platters, no lifting of the heads. Unfortunately, one of the heads came unglued. A dab of superglue later, and I was back in business. Had I lifted the heads, I imagine the one head wouldn't have broken off. The platters were taken apart by means of the few screws on the spindle assembly. Each one was gently cleaned with isopropanol and deionized water and dried with nitrogen. The stack was reassembled and mounted. Then came the tricky part: putting the heads back on. For this, I found that the locking end of some large zip ties were at the right height to spread the heads apart. I cut up some zip ties, put the ends acting as plastic spacers in between each pair of heads, and gently coaxed them back onto the platters. The goal was to let all of the spacers get pushed out by the edge of the platter at roughly the same time. The heads went on without a problem. I bolted it all back in place, closed it up, took it home, and low-level formatted it. It completed normally and only found a few bad sectors and marked them accordingly. Kyle