Just received this drive. I see where the metal cover goes but is the back of the read head broke?
Or is that simply a piece of the coil bracket/frame.
I have had drives where these bits have come off and they have contniued to work, they are only shielding. This looks to be the same case.
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Use super glue to put them back together.
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I wouldn't use superglue, it makes some fumes for a while longer that deposit as white haze on nearby surfaces and you defnitely don't want that on the heads themselves...
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No no, look closer. Where the read head coils are. The metal piece I know I can fix.
That part is out of focus so it is difficult to tell what goes on there...
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Private_Ops wrote on 2024-08-06, 18:46:Just received this drive. I see where the metal cover goes but is the back of the read head broke?
You mean the missing part of the ferrite core? That might be the erase coil, in general you'd not want it to be in the same magnetic loop as the R/W coil(s). But there are a few different ways to implement magnetic heads.
I'd say give it a try, although you want to have that upper shield glued back to provide better noise reduction. And here's an example of a head that does not have a symmetric coil layout:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BASF_ … s_-Top_View.jpg
Deunan wrote on 2024-08-07, 10:42:You mean the missing part of the ferrite core? That might be the erase coil, in general you'd not want it to be in the same magn […]
Private_Ops wrote on 2024-08-06, 18:46:Just received this drive. I see where the metal cover goes but is the back of the read head broke?
You mean the missing part of the ferrite core? That might be the erase coil, in general you'd not want it to be in the same magnetic loop as the R/W coil(s). But there are a few different ways to implement magnetic heads.
I'd say give it a try, although you want to have that upper shield glued back to provide better noise reduction. And here's an example of a head that does not have a symmetric coil layout:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BASF_ … s_-Top_View.jpg
Ferrite Core, yea, couldn't think of the name for it.
Guess we'll see.
