2018-02-26 16:08 GMT+01:00 Francesco Messineo <francesco.messineo@gmail.com>: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 2:47 PM, Konrad B <konrad0x42@gmail.com> wrote: > >> One guy said he knew a (now retired) technician, working in a local >> audio/video equipment manufacturer (Unitra) in the magnetic tape heads >> department (long time ago...) - and this guy already fixed 10 of the >> D500 R/W heads when we had this discussion, I guess this number now >> may be 20+ due to the said bunch of broken 1541-s and some other guys >> wishing to repair their own units. Process took 3-6 hours per one head > > and how does one fix a broken head? > Frank This is a literal translation: remove the coil, install the new one (no info what he uses for this), measure the gap/polish the surface. As easy as it is - for the guy that spent most of his life working for the audio equipment manufacturer (and being a master of the audio tape heads unit - until he retired). Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2018-02-26 16:00:24
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