[Coco] STATUS - Re: Resurrecting a CoCo (26-3001) with a 26-3029 FDC.

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

Does anyone have any details on how to fabricate new head load pads?  It's not so critical for my 5.25" drives (I have several spare drives), but the 8" CDC drives on my TRS-80 Model 2 really need replacements, and that machine is older than any of the parts managers at the computer stores around north Jersey.
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Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

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From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
> On single sided drives, the felt pad that replaces the 2nd head may have come 
> off, which would give a very poor and intermittent contact with the disk, and 
> again the ?IO ERROR is returned. A small flashlight through the disk slot 
> near one end so as to see past the spindle might be an 'illuminating' 
> experience. :)