Patent ID: 6269532
Filing Date: 2001-08-07
Classification: B23D,G11B,Y10T

Abstract:
In combination:an actuator block including at least one actuator arm having a plurality of head suspension assemblies staked to the at least one actuator arm the head suspension assemblies including tubular stakes having an end surface and channel, the tubular stakes extending through a stake hole of the actuator arm to stake the plurality of suspension assemblies to the actuator arm; andan expandable device operable between an insertion dimension and an expanded deswaging dimension, said expandable device including a stem portion and a flanged end having an end surface defining a deswaging surface and the flanged end having a thickness smaller than a gap between opposed end surfaces of the tubular stakes of the plurality of head suspension assemblies staked to the actuator arm and in the insertion dimension, a radial dimension of the flanged end being sized for insertion through the channels of the tubular stakes and in the deswaging dimension, the radial dimension of the flanged end being sized for insertion in the gap between end surfaces of the stakes of the plurality of head suspension assemblies to align the end surface of the flanged end to abut the end surface of one of the stakes of the plurality of head suspension assemblies to remove the stake from the actuator block.