Hello MIKE!

16 Apr 04 09:19, you wrote to me:

 VP>> AFAIK, it can be at any angle, the point is this angle shouldn't
 VP>> change while the drive is spinned on.
 VP>> Best Regards, Viktor (aka BlackDew)

 MR> Has anyone considered the centripetal force involved by the platter
 MR> spinning at 7K to 10K rpm? I vaguely recall somebody theorized that a
 MR> very massive spinning cylinder could cause gravitational effects.

That's the point, if the drive is running when you change his orientation -
it'll become a small gyroscope - the plates will try to keep their
orientation while the rest (case, heads, etc) moves and probably get
scrached.

 MR> A Swedish (?) experimenter reported that an extremely rapidly spinning
 MR> superconducting aluminium disk caused a gravitational anomaly. They
 MR> measured a decrease in gravitational force up to 3 floors above the
 MR> experiment site. I don't know if the experiment has been duplicated.

I've read something about it a year or so ago ...

Best Regards, Viktor (aka BlackDew)

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