RK07 repairable?

From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
Date: Thu Jan 16 17:59:00 2003

On 2003.01.16 22:46 Tony Duell wrote:

Why did I knew that at least you would reply to my mail. ;-)

> One of my RK07s was flooded with water from a burst pipe
[...]
> it worked fine!.
That puts me in good hope.

> These drives are solid.
Ahhh. Good, old, solid technic from the good old days when everything
was better. ;-)

> > the optical positioner that is broken off.
> Probably no major problems. The RK07 is servo-positioned when actually
> reading or writing (there's a dedicated servo surface in the pack).
OK. So no problems with track alignment. That was my main concern.

> IIRC, the optical transducer is for loading/unloading only. You might
> need to do a little setting up, but it's not as bad as a full
alignment,
> I think.
Well, I'll see. But I think I will have some work with the PDP-11 first.
The owner said somthing about broken PSUs...
-- 
tsch??,
         Jochen
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