In a message dated 09/04/99 4:56:32 Eastern Daylight Time, mikeford(a)netwiz.net writes: << My plan right now is to first buy some more drives, then sit down with a batch and rubber gloves and clean and relube all of them at once. In fact I may seek out a box of "bad" floppies to add to my repair run next time I see them at the swap meet. Fortunately I just opened up a IIfx from a friendly trade and found two excellent condition drives (along with some giant double sized 8 MB simms). that's a good idea. better to find and hoard those old disk drives for parts than have them thrown away for good. that IIfx is nice machine also. treat those 8meg simms like gold. they're proprietary to the fx model.