Re: Insides of a Widget disk

Hey,

I've successfully reglued an already completely fallen off glass in my widget drive. Here's the story:

I carefully opened the drive assembly in a clean, well-lit place, tried to place the glass back as precise as possible where it sat (you could tell by the glue residue left on the glass and the metal) and glued it back on with superglue. When I reassembled the drive, it didn't work right away. It produced the clunking re-seek sounds over and over, didnt seem to find the tracks. I fiddled with it for a while and finally, when nothing else seemed to do it any good, I grabbed the actuator shaft and moved it with my hand while the drive reseeked over and over. At first very carefully, becoming more and more vigorous as I didn't get any reaction of the drive. After maybe 5 minutes of fiddling with the shaft, whatever I did, suddenly the drive started to have success seeking tracks.

I took out my LOS floppys and the Lisa Office System reformatted the drive fine. Woohoo! It worked fine for months and didn't seem to get worse. Remember, this was some time before any utility became available which was able to really low-level-format the Widget. I only had the format routine of LOS available to me. Either it was pure luck that I was able to reglue the glass exactly enough for it to work this way or it isn't all that critical, especially when you have a way to reformat it low-level. I've got no idea, maybe one of the Widget experts here can tell.

Now for the sad part: The Widget suddenly became problematic again about half a year later and finally completely went bad again: The glass had fallen off again. That's the way it still is, maybe I'll try it again some day, now armed with BLU :-)

Hope that helps :)
Alexander from Germany  

Am Samstag, 1. Februar 2014 17:37:11 UTC+1 schrieb compu_85:
>
> I was thinking about this more... What is the group's opinion of opening
> up a *working* disk to apply more glue to the graticule? I'd hate for it to
> fall off on my good drive and ruin it, or at least require it to be
> reformatted.
>
>

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