Opening RL02 disk pack

Marc Howard cramcram at gmail.com
Wed Dec 5 17:51:27 CST 2018


Sounds like a good youtube video topic...

Marc

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 1:38 PM Guy Dunphy via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> At 02:09 PM 3/12/2018 +0100, Christian wrote:
> >Hi,
> >how does one open a RL02 disk pack? A couple of packs need cleaning but I
> >can't figure out how to open them...
>
>
> Wait, by 'open' do you mean 'release the bottom dust cover',
> or 'disassemble and remove all plastic till the platters are fully
> exposed'?
>
> By 'cleaning' do you mean blowing dust out with clean compressed air,
> or some kind of all-surfaces wash & wipe?
>
> I'd assumed the former in both, thinking you might (like me) be new to DEC
> hardware.
>
> If you actually want to do a thorough surface clean of the platters, how
> does one
> do that anyway? Is there a proceedure recommended by DEC?
> Because I may eventually need to do this on old RLO2 packs I have, as I
> get a
> PDP 11-something system together.
>
> Guy
>


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