From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-cpm
Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm
Title: Re:  Cleaning disk drive heads
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.481
Posted: Thu Dec 23 00:39:11 1982
Received: Fri Dec 24 04:30:45 1982

>From BILLW@Sri-Kl  Thu Dec 23 00:31:45 1982
Sender: BILLW@Sri-Kl
To: goldfarb.ucf-cs@Udel-Relay
Cc: info-cpm@BRL
In-Reply-To: Your message of     22 Dec 82 02:55:00 EST  (Wed)
Via:  Sri-Kl; 22 Dec 82 12:30-EST
Via:  Brl; 22 Dec 82 13:25-EST
Via:  Brl-Bmd; 22 Dec 82 13:31-EST

There was an article on disk drive care in the latest (dec?)
issue of KILOBAUD microcomputing magazine.  It seems that:

a) It is a good idea to clean your heads and worm gears and things
   every once in a while from a preformance point fo view... This
   is why head cleaning kits exist.  Their manufacturers say heads
   should be cleaned every couple weeks.

b) About 80% of disk drives returned to xxx for repairs were broken
   by users who were atempting to clean/do other preventitive maintainance
   on them.  This is why disk manufacturers recomend against head cleaning.

Head cleaning does not usually involve any abrasives.

BillW