Silicon Sam wrote:
On Sep 4, 3:59 pm, a2avia...@gmail.com wrote:..and I think out of thousands of drives to get refurbished over the years .. and years.. I saw maybe 3 of those motors be bad.I saw very few motors go bad, but it can happen. Totally frozen up, and you could see a brown spot on the paper label where it got real hot. But I had to adjust or clean a bunch of them limit switch contacts though.
And a failed limit switch leads rapidly to a failed motor or gear train... -michael AppleCrate II: An Apple II "blade server"! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."