Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Stupid Newbie Tricks

Bill
Are they a cartridge, or a sidewinder? if they are a side winder you
would get 2 motors out of them. A sidewider takes a regular 9" reel of
tape that you put in like a pizza. If it's $100 several and they are
sidewinders, then I'd say yes. The servo controler may be part of 1 main
board.
Bill Higdon
William Scalione wrote:

> At the local state surplus agency there are a couple of racks of IBM tape
> drives, probably a dozen or so, that they want $100.00 for. I was thinking
> about buying them for the servo motors, but I was unsure as to what kind of
> motors were in them. Can't remember the model numbers of the drives right
> now but they are large cartridge type drives, not the reel to reel type.
> Anyone know if these are worth going after?
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> Bill
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>>If their from an old Kennedy drive you should have saved the driver
>>boards also, it would make a start for a analog control system. AFIK
>>they used a pulse width mod control.
>>Bill Higdon (It's only been about 10 years since I had my head in one)
>>Jon Elson wrote:
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>>>WDSmith wrote:
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