Re: Insides of a Widget disk

That sounds similar to the story of when I got my Widget going. The glass hadn't fallen off, but I did grab the head motor and move it end to end a bunch of times. I think the bearings get stiff and the voice coil doesn't have the power to move the heads.

-J

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:48 PM, ogge <alexander.bernotat_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:

> 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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