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- From: pbunch@Walden.mo.net (Phil Bunch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Permanent fix for misaligned 1541!
- Date: 22 Feb 1996 07:50:39 GMT
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- Jason (tmr@cosine.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : Markus Wandel (mwandel@bnr.ca) wrote:
- :
- : : Everybody knows that the original 1541s, the ones with the push-down door
- : : latches, are junk. They work OK for a few years, then they go out of
- : : alignment and no amount of realignment will cure them.
-
- Not completely true, the early drives were notorious for alignment
- problems but the newer ones were a lot better. Also, if properly
- aligned and "fixed" they would not come out of alignment again.
-
-
- :
- : I've noticed similar comments like this before. Is this a problem everyone
- : has with the latch door 1541? I only ask because my two have never given
- : me a days trouble since they were brought (second hand) in 1985 and 1987.
- : They both get an average of about 6 to 8 hours use a day (except at weekends
- : when they are on for about 18 hours a day) so they are both well worn.
-
- This statement kind of underscores my comments above.
-
-
- :
- : My lever door 1541 and 1571 have both died on me alignment wise after a few
- : years use (and as secondary drives to my originals) and no amount of
- : adjustment seems to correct them.
- :
- : Am I just dead lucky (twice)? Any comments?!
- :
- : Jason =-)
-
- Your 1571 might have died on you but I doubt that it was alignment
- related. Of all the 1571's that I worked on I don't think I ever
- found one that was out of alignment. Lots of times the upper R/W
- head mounting "spring" would break. Sometimes the little plastic
- "rubbing block" that the lever/clamp mechanism used would wear out.
-
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