Date   : Wed, 22 Dec 1982 0935-:00PST
From   : BILLW at Sri-Kl
Subject: Re:  Cleaning disk drive heads

There was an article on disk drive care in the latest (dec?)
issue of KILOBAUD microcomputing magazine.  It seems that:

a) It is a good idea to clean your heads and worm gears and things
   every once in a while from a preformance point fo view... This
   is why head cleaning kits exist.  Their manufacturers say heads
   should be cleaned every couple weeks.

b) About 80% of disk drives returned to xxx for repairs were broken
   by users who were atempting to clean/do other preventitive maintainance
   on them.  This is why disk manufacturers recomend against head cleaning.

Head cleaning does not usually involve any abrasives.

BillW