It is probably goo that was supposed to be there back in the day ... but that day was long ago. I have heard that really old oil can partially polymerize and become sticky so it is almost certainly good to get rid of it and all the dust it has collected and put clean oil on the surfaces. I would probably have gone with teflon grease but I cant say what you did is wrong. I would have used the grease on the work screw and the oil on the rails because that is how I remember it but again my memory has not aged well. Ah the heady days of 360Kb disks.
In terms of what lubricant I used on what, I went with what I generally saw some other folks doing in their RUclips videos and in some forum posts. But who knows if *they* made the right choice, they probably got it from other RUclips videos. ;)
I had a much older friend who was strafed multiple times by ME 262s, crossed the Remagen Bridge in WWII, and survived to become a top EE. He worked on the original vacuum tube computers and went on to design missile guidance systems. He owned a computer the size of a refrigerator, possibly a Nova 3 or 4, and he hired me to build a protective package to send the linear motor drive actuator from the computer across the country to be repaired. I built a cage for it with plywood and metal rods. It was likely less, but it felt like it was over 20 pounds, and all this weight for a 10 megabyte disk. Ah, what fun you could have had with it.
@@Lantertronics When I was getting my ME degree (late 70s - early '80s), one of my Professors had a DG Nova 1220 in a locked room down in the Mechanical Labs building. Very few Engineering students even knew that it was there. I was able to use it when working on a project for one of his classes and no longer had to wait for a terminal to free up in the computer center, which had two mini computers with somewhere around 75-100 terminals in total. Only two of us had access to the Nova at that time, but it was *so* nice to have virtually a "personal" computer in college! We had two terminals for it: a Tektronix CRT terminal and a Teletype Model 33 ASR. My understanding was that the Nova 1220 was already considered obsolete at that time, but it sure was fun using it.
We haven't' worked on disk drives before, so we were nervous about opening it up as we were afraid of messing it up further... but the whole thing went pretty smoothly.
digital research, I used to use GEM which was bundled with amstrad PC's, I could probably lay my hands on GEM desktop publisher upstairs on (many) 5.25" discs
Three cheers for lubrication! 🫧💧🫧😆
It is probably goo that was supposed to be there back in the day ... but that day was long ago. I have heard that really old oil can partially polymerize and become sticky so it is almost certainly good to get rid of it and all the dust it has collected and put clean oil on the surfaces. I would probably have gone with teflon grease but I cant say what you did is wrong. I would have used the grease on the work screw and the oil on the rails because that is how I remember it but again my memory has not aged well. Ah the heady days of 360Kb disks.
In terms of what lubricant I used on what, I went with what I generally saw some other folks doing in their RUclips videos and in some forum posts. But who knows if *they* made the right choice, they probably got it from other RUclips videos. ;)
I had a much older friend who was strafed multiple times by ME 262s, crossed the Remagen Bridge in WWII, and survived to become a top EE. He worked on the original vacuum tube computers and went on to design missile guidance systems. He owned a computer the size of a refrigerator, possibly a Nova 3 or 4, and he hired me to build a protective package to send the linear motor drive actuator from the computer across the country to be repaired. I built a cage for it with plywood and metal rods. It was likely less, but it felt like it was over 20 pounds, and all this weight for a 10 megabyte disk. Ah, what fun you could have had with it.
Data General FTW! (I am obsessed with those 60s & 70s minicomputers).
@@Lantertronics When I was getting my ME degree (late 70s - early '80s), one of my Professors had a DG Nova 1220 in a locked room down in the Mechanical Labs building. Very few Engineering students even knew that it was there. I was able to use it when working on a project for one of his classes and no longer had to wait for a terminal to free up in the computer center, which had two mini computers with somewhere around 75-100 terminals in total. Only two of us had access to the Nova at that time, but it was *so* nice to have virtually a "personal" computer in college! We had two terminals for it: a Tektronix CRT terminal and a Teletype Model 33 ASR. My understanding was that the Nova 1220 was already considered obsolete at that time, but it sure was fun using it.
Success! Who would've thought that a good ole' cleaning would do it? ;)
We haven't' worked on disk drives before, so we were nervous about opening it up as we were afraid of messing it up further... but the whole thing went pretty smoothly.
digital research, I used to use GEM which was bundled with amstrad PC's, I could probably lay my hands on GEM desktop publisher upstairs on (many) 5.25" discs
Wooooooooow 🤟🏻🤖⚡
I knew it was the drive. I just missed cleaning the mechanism and not the rec/play heads.
3:38 Our long national nightmare is over.