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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Blood Money and floppy drive speed
Message-ID: <2871@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 89 13:20:41 GMT
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Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
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In a recent article, Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET ( Larry Rymal )
 writes about his experiments with his disk drive.

 |       I took the drive apart and tried to lower the rpm with
 | the potentiometer inside of the drive but Blood Money seemed to not
 | notice anything.  I checked the drive's speed qith QuickIndex15 again.
 | Drive rpm still hovered at 301.

 |     ... I glued the dime to one side of the flywheel's center.
and asks:
 |    ... , can the dime's weight cause undue wear on the flywheel?

It would be a big surprise to find any wear on the flywheel itself. (smile).

I would worry about wear on the bearings if the weight is off center.
If it is off center, I would try to balance the it on the flywheel,
with say, a second weight glued at a diametrically opposite point.

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    L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
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