29 Jan
2012
29 Jan
'12
2:42 a.m.
On 29 Jan 2012, at 01:16, Winfield Heagy wrote:
That's quite a common issue on the original 'auto-inject' drives. They were
greased with this god-awful white grease stuff that turns to gooey sludge over the course
of time and jams the mechanisms. Best advice is to remove it, see if it's physically
damaged (I've had parts bend in them when they jam) and if it seems okay clean and
re-lube the mechanism and see if you can get it moving again.
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How easy it
comes of depends wether it's been removed many times before. First time removals
can be tight as hell.
Might I ask why you are removing the case bucket?
Mark,
Something happened to the floppy drive. It worked fine for a long time, but now will not
allow a disk to be fully inserted. It goes it about all but the last quarter inch. I
can't see the problem by looking through the slot, so it looks like I need to get
inside. The case just seemed much harder to open than I expected, so I wanted to make
sure I didn't break anything. I'll be careful to stay away from the high voltage
innards.