30 Oct
2002
30 Oct
'02
3:27 a.m.
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Mike Ford wrote:
Given this list is a pretty diverse bunch of surplus
prowlers, I am
wondering if anybody knows where I can find a couple super low
inertia motors like some older tape drives and other very rapid
positioning equipment used. They are easy to spot once you have seen
one, imagine a super large sams club sized tuna can (say 4" tall x
7" dia) with a single portion fruit can on top and shafts sticking
out the top and bottom. A couple big knobs for brushes etc. and if
you touch the shaft it turns like nothing is there, very low inertia.
Here is a picture, and you can even see the two in the middle still
have some sort of tape drive capstan thing I think.
<http://www.mindspring.com/~sdinc/pages/contra_p22.html>
Contact the ACCRC. They get old tapes drives in once in a while that
nobody wants to claim and the unit simply gets scrapped. However, the
motors are usually culled because once in a while someone comes in looking
for one for this project or another. The last guy that came in looking
for one was building a submersible hydrogen vehicle (something like that).
Another guy a while back was building windmills for electricity
generation.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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