How to sabotage a 5 1/5 floppy drive... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Jan 2005

On Jan 25 2005, 11:40, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
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  without really trying:

 Part amusing story, part warning. [ ... ]
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  So I open up the drive, straighten out the latch and
then, since I have it
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  apart anyway, decide to clean the head.  I get a Q-Tip
and some alcohol,
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  lift the pressure pad arm and clean the head. 
(Anybody spot the problem
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  yet?) 
Yes, because I did it once on a similar drive.  I had to dismantle it
to straighten the spring steel strip, and then re-align the upper head,
IIRC (it was a double-sided drive).  Quite a few drives are like that.

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