This made me remember that I have a perhaps similar problem with one of my Kaypro drives.
It works at first, but eventually wears away portions of the disk making the disk
unusable. (After a few uses, if you hold the disk up to the light there are arcs that are
clear.) I assume this is a head alignment issue. If so, is there an easy way to realign
the heads (perhaps dropping the unit a la Apple III), or should I just look for another
floppy drive?