Re: 8" hard sector (Was DG S/130 status)

2015-10-19 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 10/19/2015 07:35 AM, Chris Elmquist wrote: If we were to do these again, today, we'd need to farm out the work to a production shop for better, more reproducible results I think. Find a shop with a wire EDM rig--it shouldn't take too long to spit a jig out. --Chuck

Re: 8" hard sector (Was DG S/130 status)

2015-10-19 Thread Chris Elmquist
On Monday (10/19/2015 at 10:20AM -0400), Steven Hirsch wrote: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, Chris Elmquist wrote: > > >The photos are of the 10-hole punch. We also did a 16-hole as Dwight > >has mentioned and he as a few of those still available. > > > >Dwight, I double checked the metal and we're both

RE: 8" hard sector (Was DG S/130 status)

2015-10-19 Thread Jay West
We need to be able to do 32 sector 8" floppies :) J

Re: 8" hard sector (Was DG S/130 status)

2015-10-19 Thread Steven Hirsch
On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, Chris Elmquist wrote: The photos are of the 10-hole punch. We also did a 16-hole as Dwight has mentioned and he as a few of those still available. Dwight, I double checked the metal and we're both mis-remembering. It's not aluminum or stainless but just tool steel that Rus

Re: 8" hard sector (Was DG S/130 status)

2015-10-19 Thread Chris Elmquist
Hey Guys-- Sorry for the delay getting this out there. I finally found the documentation package I had put together back in 2010 and it's now on my GDrive here, https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6A73VHTVh23MS1MVERNcUZkd1U The photos are of the 10-hole punch. We also did a 16-hole as Dwi

Re: 8" hard sector (Was DG S/130 status)

2015-10-16 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 10/16/2015 11:00 AM, Chris Elmquist wrote: On Friday (10/16/2015 at 08:53AM -0700), Chris Osborn wrote: I will take some photos later today and round up some of the documentation we had for them and then send another note with links to same. Strange--up until about a year ago, I had a cus

Re: 8" hard sector (Was DG S/130 status)

2015-10-16 Thread Chris Elmquist
On Friday (10/16/2015 at 08:53AM -0700), Chris Osborn wrote: > > On Oct 16, 2015, at 8:18 AM, dwight wrote: > > > I do still have some 16 hole 5-1/4 punches left. ( anyone want one? ) > > I’d love to see a picture of one just to see how it was made and how it > clamps to the disk. I will take

RE: 8" hard sector (Was DG S/130 status)

2015-10-16 Thread Jay West
Dwight wrote -- I'd makes some slight changes if I did it again. -- How about support for 8"? ;) J

Re: 8" hard sector (Was DG S/130 status)

2015-10-16 Thread Chris Osborn
On Oct 16, 2015, at 8:18 AM, dwight wrote: > I do still have some 16 hole 5-1/4 punches left. ( anyone want one? ) I’d love to see a picture of one just to see how it was made and how it clamps to the disk. -- Follow me on twitter: @FozzTexx Check out my blog: http://insentricity.com

RE: 8" hard sector (Was DG S/130 status)

2015-10-16 Thread dwight
I do still have some 16 hole 5-1/4 punches left. ( anyone want one? ) Actually it was stainless and Delrin. I'd makes some slight changes if I did it again. It really needed two alignment pins. It didn't need to have the envelope removed. One rotated the envelope to expose the next hole location.

Re: 8" hard sector (Was DG S/130 status)

2015-10-15 Thread Chris Elmquist
The punch aligns with the index hole since we are starting with soft-sector media and that's the only hole we have. Then it "clamps" the media and you rotate the punch and the media together to align each sector hole with a hole in the template part of the punch and slam the punch pin through.

Re: 8" hard sector (Was DG S/130 status)

2015-10-15 Thread Chris Elmquist
I resemble that remark ;-) Indeed, we did not do anything for 8" Chris On October 15, 2015 1:36:50 PM CDT, Dennis Boone wrote: >> I doubt it. They need to be very accurate, and one would not want to > > open the sleeve to punch one. > >A set of 10- and 16-hole punching jigs were done by a lis

Re: 8" hard sector (Was DG S/130 status)

2015-10-15 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 10/15/2015 02:19 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote: So, hole by hole - what about the extra hole for the index - one would need the jig to have an extra hole for the punch for that at 1/2 spacing. A set of 10- and 16-hole punching jigs were done by a list member some years ago. They work through the wi

Re: 8" hard sector (Was DG S/130 status)

2015-10-15 Thread Jay Jaeger
So, hole by hole - what about the extra hole for the index - one would need the jig to have an extra hole for the punch for that at 1/2 spacing. Sent from my iPad On Oct 15, 2015, at 13:36, Dennis Boone wrote: >> I doubt it. They need to be very accurate, and one would not want to >> open the

Re: 8" hard sector (Was DG S/130 status)

2015-10-15 Thread Dennis Boone
> I doubt it. They need to be very accurate, and one would not want to > open the sleeve to punch one. A set of 10- and 16-hole punching jigs were done by a list member some years ago. They work through the window in the sleeve, so don't require opening the sleeve. But they're for 5.25". De

Re: 8" hard sector (Was DG S/130 status)

2015-10-15 Thread Jay Jaeger
I doubt it. They need to be very accurate, and one would not want to open the sleeve to punch one. JRJ On 10/14/2015 10:39 PM, ben wrote: > On 10/14/2015 9:39 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote: >> I could spare one - but probably only one. >> >> JRJ >> > Did they ever make punch to make your own? > Ben. > >

Re: 8" hard sector (Was DG S/130 status)

2015-10-14 Thread ben
On 10/14/2015 9:39 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote: I could spare one - but probably only one. JRJ Did they ever make punch to make your own? Ben.

Re: 8" hard sector (Was DG S/130 status)

2015-10-14 Thread Jay Jaeger
I could spare one - but probably only one. JRJ On 10/14/2015 4:17 PM, Jay West wrote: > I found a company selling new 8" 32-sector hard sector floppies. > > http://www.athana.com/html/diskette.html Item # 47-0801 > > They want $150 per box of 10. That's a pretty hefty pricetag... but in the >

8" hard sector (Was DG S/130 status)

2015-10-14 Thread Jay West
I found a company selling new 8" 32-sector hard sector floppies. http://www.athana.com/html/diskette.html Item # 47-0801 They want $150 per box of 10. That's a pretty hefty pricetag... but in the absence of other suppliers I may just have to break down and buy a box from them. J