RE: So much for an injury free year, lol and SRSG Hard drives

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Original poster: "Basura, Brian by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <brian.basura-at-unistudios-dot-com>

Chris,

Most of those washing machine sized hard drives did use synchronous motors
but they were three phase (I provided support to more than one engineer who
had the platters spinning backwards)...

Regards,
Brian B.

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Sent:	Friday, July 06, 2001 1:02 PM
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Subject:	So much for an injury free year, lol and SRSG Hard drives

Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>

The DAY after I sent an email to an MD on the list mentioning how long it's 
been since I had an injury.......I drop a 30 pound hard drive magnet 
assembly off the workbench....and directly onto my big toe.

Fortunately the swelling forbids me from putting my foot in my mouth ;)

Now to the reason I was tinkering wth the drive in the first place.

Along with the semi-trailer of AS-400 mainframe we got a few IBM antiques, 
some of them are hard drives that have 14+" plattens and use SERIOUS 
belt-driven motors.

1. Are these motors sync?

2. Thoughs on making a big hard drive into a NICE big SRSG? Or even ASRG?

btw, DC motors from old tape drives (the reel to reel kind) make cracking 
good ASRG motors :)



duck




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