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In article <5...@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> h...@hangfire.Eng.Sun.COM (Dave Hsu [Contractor]) writes:
-In article <1990Jul12.173410.7060@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu- ja2...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (*** Jeff ****) writes:
--I have a program for my Commodore 64 the bangs the disk drive head into
--the head stop at musical frequencies and plays "A Bicycle Built for Two."
-
-Hopefully you won't run this too often.  Probably the biggest problem
-with the original 64 (besides having a poorly shielded video section) was
-that the old 1541(?) drives were poorly ventilated, and if you let the
-drive heat up enough, the head stop setscrew would loosen up and boom,
-your stepper alignment lost its zero on the next boot.

In that case, open the 1541, loosen the two screws holding the stepper
and slowly twist it back and forth until it works.  I had to do this a
few times on mine :-)  By the way, never stack 1540 and older 1541 drives.
The bottom one can get so hot that its case will melt to the one above.
I once saw a stack of three 1540s that were fused together :-)
/mike

-Dave Hsu	 Sun Microsystems MS 14-40    (415) 336 5253    in a pinch:
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