On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 4:40 PM, Konrad B <konrad0x42@gmail.com> wrote: > 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). ok, so there's no hope that there's a tutorial around or a better explanation, right? Would be interesting at least to know how to remove the bad coil. I seem to remember the heads are all filled with epoxy or something similar.. Frank Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2018-02-26 16:00:44
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