On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, dwight elvey wrote:
  I have a solution that might help keeping it from
failing in the future.
 I have had a number of drop flags fail on pinball machines. I found
 that a thin piece of poly foam would protect them. I put it where
 the impact was. Unlike other foams, the poly foam seems to last
 forever ( not always a good thing ). 
. . .  but do it to ALL of the drives!
We did that with the A: drive of the dean's computer.  He noticed that it
wasn't opening quite as far as the other drives, and forced it, . . .