Fooling with floppy drives

In a message dated 08/04/99 10:22:43 Eastern Daylight Time, edick(a)idcomm.com writes: << Since new floppy drives cost about $25 including shipment, it's difficult to justify repairing them. This is frustrating for people like you who have drives for which replacements are not readily available for $20 or so. Your experience with sloppy workmanship gives clear indication that $10 per hour is not enough to pay a competent technician. The occasional look inside should give you good indication of why one who can't spend more than 15 minutes' time fixing a $20 drive, can't get the job done. These devices must be considered "throw-away" items by now. You've got to learn to fix-em-yourself. >> agreed, but i'd only apply this throw away mindset to ordinary pc floppy drives. mac suprdrives are hard to find and expensive. i've one now in my mac IIx that's not reading any disks. apple drives are plentiful and cheap, but i'd fix them as well since none are produced anymore, obviously.