Where can i buy head stack assemblies?

[Rudi]

I have been searching all over to find a place where i can buy replacement head stack assemblies and cannot seem to find anything.
Can anyone help?

[Doomer]

you probably can't
they are not sold separately from drives

[pcimage]

As Doomer says, you can't buy them seperately. You have to remove them from a compatible "donor" drive.

[deftrue]

That's right; in fact, you may sometimes need to use some information from the rest of the drive (i.e., the electronic board) to make the new headstack work properly.

[lcoughey]

I have a few thousand...willing to pitch in the rest of the drive for free. The heads sell anywhere between $50 and $500.