Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!styx!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ucdavis!egg-id!ui3!dickow From: dickow@ui3.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: CBM 1541 alignment info requested Message-ID: <60006@ui3.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 16:19:56 EST Article-I.D.: ui3.60006 Posted: Fri Dec 19 16:19:56 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Dec-86 21:43:42 EST References: <1750@homxc.UUCP> Organization: MRC, University of Idaho Lines: 30 / ui3:comp.sys.cbm / nms@homxc.UUCP (N.SCRIBNER) / 10:31 am Dec 17, 1986 / What is the latest scoop on alignment of old 1541 dis drives? Is is cost effective to take it to the local fixit shop? Send it to Commodore? Buy a kit? Is there public domain SW which would allow an "educated", (but not expert) user to align a unit himself. Thanks for the advice. Neal Scribner ATT-BL 201-949-2242 homxc!nms ---------- 1541 drives, especially 'older' ones, go out of alignment so frequently that it seems cheaper to buy a new one sometimes. However, I have been align- ing my own for some time. I use the CSM alignment program. Skyles electric works is also selling a program at about 29 bucks. You can find ads for these in just about any issue of COMPUTE! or RUN mag. I'd supply addresses but I loaned my disk to a friend. The program comes with an extra special alignment standard disk, so you can't pirate the thing. If you can handle a screwdriver you can do the job. Just watch out for the 110 volts, and be careful not to accidentally 'strip' the phillips heads that hold down the stepper motor. Just one alignment performed yourself will pay for the program, since shop jobs will cost anywhere from 30 to 79 bucks. The CSM program ran me about $45. The first time you do it the job is a little frustrating...takes about an hour to get it right, and some 'hunting and pecking' for the best adjust- ments is necessary. Bob Dickow, Univ. of Idaho School of Music egg-id!ui3!dickow i