Re: I want to calibrate 5.25 inch floppy drives myself

[mnementh@netcom.com (David R. Villegas)]

pbauer@mit.edu (Paul H Bauer) wrote:
>The screw is in the back of the drive on the power supply regulator if I
>remember correctly. Also if you take the mechanism out of the case
>there is a stobe disk on the bottom of the flywheel that can be used
>with a flouresent light to time the drives.

And if you want to calibrate anything besides the disk speed, the relevant
Sams Photofacts guide (available at decent libraries and electronics mail-order
stores) has all the info for track alignment, signal strength, head alignment.