"A pack inspector is a handy thing to have (spinle with microscope and illuminator on the rack and pinion)"
Can you post a picture of this critter? Is it something we could 3D print? Thanks, Marc On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 6:40 AM, Al Kossow <[email protected]> wrote: > isopropyl alcohol works. TFE is better, if you have some stashed. > > If you can find them anywhere, Texwipe made a plastic wand that looks like > a tongue depressor with a slit down the middle and a lint free sleeve > called the Texsleeve (tx300 sleeve, tx800 wand) that you would use to > clean heads > > Minor head crashes leave a tar-like residue that you need to remove. A > pack inspector > is a handy thing to have (spinle with microscope and illuminator on the > rack and pinion) > to look for surface damage. > > On 1/5/17 5:22 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > > From: Klemens Krause > > > > > We clean our RK05 disks in a very robust way: with cheap burning > spirit > > > and paper towels. ... We rubbed away thick black traces from > occasional > > > head crashes and we never removed the oxide coating with this > torture. > > > > I am about to get a large batch of RK05 packs, so I am interested in the > > details of this. > > > > First, what is 'burning spirit'? (I assume this is a straight translation > > into English of some German term, but not knowing German... :-) After > poking > > around with Google for a while (hampered no little by the fact that it's > the > > name of a band, and also a term in World of Warcraft :-), it seems like > it > > might be acetone? > > > > Noel > > > >
