> From: Fritz Mueller
> the heads are accumulating dust and oxide in places that are hard see
> and get to
Sorry, I don't follow this - where are you thinking of?
> I'm looking for some advice/calibration from the community here.
Hmm, we had to do this once BITD (we had a bad head crash, and had to replace
the heads - I've still got the platter, used to have the heads somewhere),
and my vague memory (it was ~35 years ago) is that it wasn't hard.
But we had an alignment disk (which has specific non-standard patterns
recorded on it, to make it easy to do the alignment - blocks of signals
written at slight positive and negative offsets to the nominal track path, so
one just moves the head until the two blocks have the same amplitude on a
'scope - the RK05 Maint Manual gives good pictures which show the process).
How one would do the alignment without such a pack is not clear to me. I
suppose one could use an existing pack,and adjust the alignment to produce the
maximum signal output, and then hope the pack one is working with was
written on a reasonably-well aligned drive...
> From: Al Kossow
> Sadly, Texsleeves are no longer made, they are the best.
Yes, I'm bummed about that.
What's the recommended replacement?
Noel
