The most versatile, effective cleaning tool /ever/. Not even sarcastic. =]
-- Anders Nelson +1 (517) 775-6129 www.erogear.com On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 3:45 PM, dwight via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I always use my finger and finger nail. Your finger is very sensitive to > even the tiniest piece of crud. I then just need to do a final clean with > IPA. > > Dwight > > > ________________________________ > From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> on behalf of Fritz Mueller > via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2018 12:15:34 PM > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: ultrasonic cleaning for disk heads > > I watched with great interest one of curiousmarc’s recent Alto videos, > wherein they clean a Diablo drive head ultrasonically. I’ve been > struggling a bit with my restored RK05 drives to completely clean the heads > after minor head crashes. Not being able to get them really sparkling > clean makes me always worried about running the drives for more than a few > minutes at a time, and a little nervous every time I spin them up…. > Scrubbing and scrubbing and scrubbing with IPA and kimwipes just doesn’t > seem to get all the crud off. > > I do have an alignment pack that I could use to re-align the heads after > removing them for a proper cleaning this way. Decent ultrasonic cleaners > aren’t terribly expensive and might be nice to have around the shop anyway > (I could also do all my eyeglasses :-) > > In the video, the heads are submerged in IPA in a glass cylinder, which is > then placed in the ultrasonic bath. > > Has anybody on the list here done this and have tips/advice beyond what > can be seen in the video? It looked very effective! I’m also having a > little trouble sourcing the squat form glass graduated cylinder online. > > cheers, > —FritzM. > >
