8" drive collets - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

24 Feb 2004

On Feb 24, 23:25, John Honniball wrote:
...
  Pete Turnbull wrote:
 > Today I discovered that the fault on drive 0 of my SWTPC twin 8" drive
...
  > box is due to a cracked collet -- the 8-fingered
black plastic part,
...
   with a ball
race in the centre, that holds the floppy disk onto the
 hub. 
 I have some spare 8" disk drives here, if that'll help at all.  Or if
 anyone else wants 'em?  One's a Shugart SA-801, the others I can't
 remember (but I can look them up). 
I like the drives I have so I don't really want to replace them, and it
seems silly to cannibalise a good drive to fix a bust one.  And I
*definitely* don't have room for more (unfortunately -- I'd like to put
one or two on a PC).  But thanks for the offer.

OTOH, I might fit one into my Cromemco.  I'll check that tomorrow...

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York