Floppy drive mechanical failure
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dke...@hotmail.com
Jul 24, 2009, 7:07:10 PM7/24/09
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Hi
As was noted in a previous message, the Cat's disk drive has
one part that will most likely fail on all drives.
As one would expect, it failed on my drive.
I carefully removed the piece of the original plastic clamp and then
created another from a piece of plastic I had from a key label.
I used a small screw and nut through the original staked hole
to secure it. It has been working well since.
It would seem that this failure can be repaired with just a
little improvising. Tools I used to create it were a hacksaw
blade, drill bit and flat file.
Dwight
As was noted in a previous message, the Cat's disk drive has
one part that will most likely fail on all drives.
As one would expect, it failed on my drive.
I carefully removed the piece of the original plastic clamp and then
created another from a piece of plastic I had from a key label.
I used a small screw and nut through the original staked hole
to secure it. It has been working well since.
It would seem that this failure can be repaired with just a
little improvising. Tools I used to create it were a hacksaw
blade, drill bit and flat file.
Dwight
Charles Springer
Jul 24, 2009, 8:17:01 PM7/24/09
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Do you have some pictures? If anyone can do a CAD drawing, I have access to a 3D printer. They might be strong enough straight from the printer of make a mold for a tough resin, etc.
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Sandy Bumgarner
Jul 25, 2009, 11:13:16 AM7/25/09
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Hi Dwight & Charlie,
I have a couple of drives so maybe we could make a part mold from a good part?
JOB
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I have a couple of drives so maybe we could make a part mold from a good part?
JOB
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dke...@hotmail.com
Jul 25, 2009, 5:16:42 PM7/25/09
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Hi Sandy
Every one I've seen is cracked and ready to fail. The piece I made is
not
exactly like the original. I'll take pictures but I don't have high
megnification.
I do have a Canon D10 that I can blow the picture up quite a bit.
The pictures of the keyboard switch were done with that.
It was not made from measurements, it was just cut and filed to
fit.
I drilled the hole first because that is the harderest to get exact
and then cut and filed it in.
It does't need much. Most of my time was removing the old
staked piece from the plate. One does need to disassemble
quite a bit. Jack is an expert now at that.
Dwight
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Every one I've seen is cracked and ready to fail. The piece I made is
not
exactly like the original. I'll take pictures but I don't have high
megnification.
I do have a Canon D10 that I can blow the picture up quite a bit.
The pictures of the keyboard switch were done with that.
It was not made from measurements, it was just cut and filed to
fit.
I drilled the hole first because that is the harderest to get exact
and then cut and filed it in.
It does't need much. Most of my time was removing the old
staked piece from the plate. One does need to disassemble
quite a bit. Jack is an expert now at that.
Dwight
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Sandy Bumgarner
Jul 26, 2009, 3:03:11 AM7/26/09
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The drive in my personal Cat works OK (but for how long?) so maybe it
could be used.
I am out of the country now & will be back about 10 Aug.
Sandy
could be used.
I am out of the country now & will be back about 10 Aug.
Sandy
dke...@hotmail.com
Aug 10, 2009, 10:36:16 AM8/10/09
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Hi Charlie
I've posted a couple pictures, flop2 and flop3. Flop2 shows
the piece I made. Notice that the end over the bar does
not extend but about 1/3 of the bars diameter. This
helps to hold the bar correctly and clear the moving
head assembly. The width of the piece it determined
by the full travel of the head assembly.
Note that I used the same screw that was on the original
piece but didn't have anything in the hole for the stake.
The back side of the stake is also used to space one
of the PC boards but there are more than enough other
things holding it up. A blop of hot-glue would be more
than enough to replace it if needed.
The picture flop3 shows the piece removed and to the
upper right, the key fob that I got the plastic piece from
to make the piece out of.
Dwight
On Jul 24, 5:17 pm, Charles Springer <charles.regni...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I've posted a couple pictures, flop2 and flop3. Flop2 shows
the piece I made. Notice that the end over the bar does
not extend but about 1/3 of the bars diameter. This
helps to hold the bar correctly and clear the moving
head assembly. The width of the piece it determined
by the full travel of the head assembly.
Note that I used the same screw that was on the original
piece but didn't have anything in the hole for the stake.
The back side of the stake is also used to space one
of the PC boards but there are more than enough other
things holding it up. A blop of hot-glue would be more
than enough to replace it if needed.
The picture flop3 shows the piece removed and to the
upper right, the key fob that I got the plastic piece from
to make the piece out of.
Dwight
On Jul 24, 5:17 pm, Charles Springer <charles.regni...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Do you have some pictures? If anyone can do a CAD drawing, I have access to
> a 3D printer. They might be strong enough straight from the printer of make
> a mold for a tough resin, etc.
>
> -- Charlie Springer
>
> a 3D printer. They might be strong enough straight from the printer of make
> a mold for a tough resin, etc.
>
> -- Charlie Springer
>
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:07 PM, dkel...@hotmail.com <dkel...@hotmail.com>wrote:
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> > Hi
> > As was noted in a previous message, the Cat's disk drive has
> > one part that will most likely fail on all drives.
> > As one would expect, it failed on my drive.
> > I carefully removed the piece of the original plastic clamp and then
> > created another from a piece of plastic I had from a key label.
> > I used a small screw and nut through the original staked hole
> > to secure it. It has been working well since.
> > It would seem that this failure can be repaired with just a
> > little improvising. Tools I used to create it were a hacksaw
> > blade, drill bit and flat file.
> > Dwight
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> > Hi
> > As was noted in a previous message, the Cat's disk drive has
> > one part that will most likely fail on all drives.
> > As one would expect, it failed on my drive.
> > I carefully removed the piece of the original plastic clamp and then
> > created another from a piece of plastic I had from a key label.
> > I used a small screw and nut through the original staked hole
> > to secure it. It has been working well since.
> > It would seem that this failure can be repaired with just a
> > little improvising. Tools I used to create it were a hacksaw
> > blade, drill bit and flat file.
> > Dwight
>
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> Industrial ARMWorks
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