On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Henk Gooijen <henk.gooi...@hotmail.com> wrote: >
> Grin … I don’t plan to check whether Mother Earth’s acceleration is still > working fine. > Indeed, the RA60 is heavy. Just like RA81’s, the RA60 is not good for your > back, but > the RA60 is worse than the RA81. The RA60 is also “longer” compared to the > RA81, > and that does not help either when you hav to move an RA60 around. I'm doing an RA80-like thing soon. Actually an R80, going at the bottom of a half-height rack for the 11/730. I am building that one up in the rack. No way am I lifting it fully assembled (and actually DEC suggest you remove the HDA first). > > I really do not want to mess with the mechanical construction of the entire > RP03 > drive. They are too rare. I want to move them “as is”. The only thing that > can be > done easily is removing the side panels. Maybe I have more (unjustified) confidnnce in my abilities to get things back together again, but in my case I think I would feel there was less risk of damage if I took the thing apart than if I tried to move it assembled. I wouldn't touch the heads or positioner parts (A full alignment would be 'interesting') but I would certainly remove the spindle all PCBs, mains transformer/PSU parts, blower, etc. > However, the ceiling in the cellar has an opening although that is currently > welded > by a closing lid. The system was installed in the 80ties, and it is not > remembered > how the system got into the cellar back then. The system has operated in that > cellar > for almost 20 years (PDP-11/40, RP11, Kennedy 9100 – 3 H960 rack system). > > I used wooden planks (shelves) laid on the stairs, and then pushed the racks > up. > It was heavy, even for 3 strong guys --- OK, 2.5 😊 I removed the Kennedy > tape Get more strong friends :-). Be warned that unless they have experience in moving classic computers you might regret it, -tony
