Anyone know how to replace the little felt pad on an RX01 floppy.
It is the pad that is opposite the head to hold the floppy
against the head. One of mine has come off, and without a dentist
mirror thingy I can't see what holds it in place. Are these available
still?
Normally they;re lightly glued into position, maybe with something like
double-sided sticky tape.
You should be able to lift the spring-loadrd pressure arm up far enough
to see it, maybe you have to dismantle the disk holder fist (this is not
too hard, from what I rememmber you take off the handle and the front
panel, unscrew the screws holding the pivot strip-things in place and
slide it out.
Be warned that if you remove the axle for the pressure arm you will have
problems. There's a torsion spring in there that will jump out. I had to
do this once, and to get it back, I had to make a dummy pin (1/8"
diameter, long enough to fit in the prssure arm but not stick out), then
fit the spring to the pressure arm and fit the dummy pin, put that back
into the head carriagem, then press out the dummy with the real axle and
fit the circlip.
-tony