Indus GT plexiglass front cover

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Anyone selling plexiglass front cover for Indus drive?  I bought mine on ebay, arrived cracked...  

Thanks

[+Faicuai]

Where did it crack?

 

Front? or the side (internal) hangers?

[gilsaluki]

May want to check with Mr. Disk Drive Repair Guy of the century.  Mr. Paul V. Alhart, Lom Loc, Ca.  He may have some spare Indus GT drive parts laying around.  

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1 hour ago, Faicuai said:

Where did it crack?

 

Front? or the side (internal) hangers?

It cracked on the front.  I epoxy'd the 2 parts together.  Sanded it down and covered it in black vinyl.  Looks really good (almost sinister), but would prefer OEM look.

[777ismyname]

7 hours ago, [email protected] said:

It cracked on the front.  I epoxy'd the 2 parts together.  Sanded it down and covered it in black vinyl.  Looks really good (almost sinister), but would prefer OEM look.

Post pics, please  The Indus GT is the coolest looking disk drive ever made, IMO. 
 

Also, if anyone that sees this has one they’d like to sell, hit me up  

[Gunstar]

I love the Indus GT's too. I have 2 of them and a CA-2001 clone, though the CA-2001 isn't nearly as elegant as the GT's and came with a different face-plate that doesn't use a plexiglass cover unfortunately. I was looking for a GT front cover to swap on it for a while. But it was in rough shape so I just ended up painting it to match my XL system. The GT's are good cosmetically and will stay their elegant original selves. I just got 3 sram upgrades for all of them I'm about to install. I can't wait until I have them all running in Super Synchromesh mode at speeds faster than my Warp Speed 1050's.

 

Here is a picture of my GT's for you @777ismyname . I guess I need to re-clean their covers, I see streaking from wiping them the last time in the photo...I almost want to paint my 800 black to match them, but I'd never do that to an 800 unless it was one with a smashed case that needed rebuilding and body work done so it would have to be painted.

 

 

 

 

Edited February 26 by Gunstar

[_The Doctor__]

ah just get one of the GT's that are made and broken for some other computer platform/brand and steal parts from that drive (good as donor for many parts). Put that puppy on your Atari iNDUS and call it a day.

[Gunstar]

Good idea @_The Doctor__, I never thought of that for my CA-2001! And I'm surprised I didn't as I usually think of that type of stuff. I've been collecting Infocom games from other computers and just removing the stickers for the other brands at the bottom and writing Atari .ATX's on their floppies, because those versions sell for a fraction of what the Atari ones are going for...

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Here is mine with the cracked front, covered with Black Vinyl...

[777ismyname]

2 hours ago, [email protected] said:

Here is mine with the cracked front, covered with Black Vinyl...

Now that is badass! 

[gilsaluki]

Great job!  Good solution.  The VADAR

[777ismyname]

5 hours ago, Gunstar said:

I love the Indus GT's too. I have 2 of them and a CA-2001 clone, though the CA-2001 isn't nearly as elegant as the GT's and came with a different face-plate that doesn't use a plexiglass cover unfortunately. I was looking for a GT front cover to swap on it for a while. But it was in rough shape so I just ended up painting it to match my XL system. The GT's are good cosmetically and will stay their elegant original selves. I just got 3 sram upgrades for all of them I'm about to install. I can't wait until I have them all running in Super Synchromesh mode at speeds faster than my Warp Speed 1050's.

 

Here is a picture of my GT's for you @777ismyname . I guess I need to re-clean their covers, I see streaking from wiping them the last time in the photo...I almost want to paint my 800 black to match them, but I'd never do that to an 800 unless it was one with a smashed case that needed rebuilding and body work done so it would have to be painted.

 

 

 

 

Nice setup, @Gunstar!

I have such a soft spot for the Indus GT. BITD I luster after them, but never had the $. When I had the $, I was too busy playing baseball, partying hard, and chasing girls 😂 

 

I have two, too  I’m going to make that four of them this year, just because that is what I wanted way back then. I don’t have much use for them, pragmatically speaking, but ehhh.

[+Faicuai]

After restoration, back when I bought them: (still today!)

 

 

Gram-by-gram, byte-for-byte, FINEST drive ever produced for Atari 8bit series!

 

(I DO like the "robo-cop" re-finish shown up-there... NOT BAD at all !!!)

Edited February 26 by Faicuai

[Mathy]

Hello guys

 

How hard would it be to create these front covers out of dark sheets of plexiglass?  Since the plexiglass is dark, you wouldn't see the seams very well if you put them in the right place.

 

Sincerely

 

Mathy

 

[Gunstar]

19 hours ago, 777ismyname said:

Nice setup, @Gunstar!

I have such a soft spot for the Indus GT. BITD I luster after them, but never had the $. When I had the $, I was too busy playing baseball, partying hard, and chasing girls 😂 

 

I have two, too  I’m going to make that four of them this year, just because that is what I wanted way back then. I don’t have much use for them, pragmatically speaking, but ehhh.

Ditto for me and my life experience on everything (except exchange baseball for motorcycles) you said there.

 

Here is my CA-2001 GT clone. Originally all gray matching the XE line, but all parts were originally painted gray and it was all scratched up, I even had to fill in some gouges in the metal case before re-painting to closely match my XL peripherals. Though I've found a brown paint that better matches the dark XL brown now, so I may repaint the face plate.

 

Edited February 27 by Gunstar

[Stormbringer]

Somebody needs to 3d model them for Resin printers.