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- From: elphantas@aol.com (El Phantas)
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- Subject: Re: Permanent fix for misaligned 1541!
- Date: 23 Feb 1996 06:11:18 -0500
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- In article <9602222001.AA000ix@cosine.demon.co.uk>, Jason
- <tmr@cosine.demon.co.uk> writes:
-
- >: 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.
- >
- >
-
- I aligned one last night. I always thought they *never* got out of
- alignment. But for the most part, they don't seem to. I had four of them
- that "needed alignment" according to the guy that owns them, but I only
- ended up having to align one of them. Two others just needed cleaning,
- (badly) and one wasn't seating the disk properly.
-