Micropolis 1355 ESDI hard drive "sticky bumpers" Fixed!

[Allison]

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>Subject: Re: Micropolis 1355 ESDI hard drive "sticky bumpers" Fixed!
>   From: Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com>
>   Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:12:23 -0700 (PDT)
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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>--- Andy Piercy <andy.piercy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Allison,
>> 
>> Well hats off to you, it worked!
>> 
>> I have now fixed the faulty internals of the two
>> faulty Micropolis hard
>> drives by teasing out the black gooey mass that use
>> to be the head park
>> rebound bumper / end stops for each drive.
>> 
>> They had turned into a black sticky mush and as you
>> correctly identified
>> were holding the heads from un-parking.
>
>When removing this bumper, are you replacing it with
>something (say, a stick-on rubber foot) or simply
>removing it entirely?

Outright removal is the easiest.  You hear a clunk when the head returns
but I've nver had any that showed adverse side effects from that.

Allison