Disk pack cleaning - was RE: "New" RL02 on the way - how to powerup?

Jay West jwest at classiccmp.org
Sun Jul 31 21:17:19 CDT 2005


Gil wrote....
>> Cleaning becomes an issue when you have the drive :~) See
>> www.pdp-11.nl  (peripheral -> disk -> RL01/RL02").
>
> Speaking of cleaning, is anyone aware of any service facility that can 
> clean
> a disk pack? I have a Four Phase System IV/90 that I will be firing up ADN
> and it uses a CDC 9762 drive. I would like to have the packs "cleaned" so
> that when I fire it up we don't crater the heads first thing.

Guess no one saw the disk pack cleaning device on ebay? It was there just a 
few days ago, may still be. I think it was "Texwipe" or something like that. 
In any case, it had an arm to clean multiplatter cartridges and such.

Jay 



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