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From: dwl10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Need 1541 Alignment Help
Message-ID: <21928@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 3 Feb 88 18:21:12 GMT
References: <1802@rayssd.ray.com>
Reply-To: dwl10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey)
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Keywords: How do I do it?

In article <1802@rayssd.ray.com> wjb@rayssd.ray.com (Bill Brogan) writes:
>
>     My 1541 drive is in need of alignment.  I have seen a couple of alignment
>kits (how to manuals, and some sort of disk) in a couple of the Commodore
>magazines.  I was wondering if anyone had any experience with any of these
>and could recommend one.
>
>     Or, could I do it without buying something like that?  That didn't seem
>likely.  Thanks for any help.
>
SAMS has a book on repairing the 1540/1541/1542 disk drives. In it they
describe a procedure fo alligning the driving using a volt meter and
a "video detector". The video detector is easily constructed from $8.00 worth
of stuff from Radio Shack.
 
I use their procedure, and it works great. They also have a procedure to
use a O-Scope, if yor're lucky enough to have one.
 
The book should be avaliable at most book stores.
>
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