On 12/17/2015 2:06 PM, Joseph Oprysko via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I have like 3 or 4 Mac 400k drives (2 external units, and 2 internal) Is someone here adept at cleaning the old grease and re-greasing these drives?
Here's the systems I need them for: Mac 512K - Internal drive & External Drive - Clean and Lube Mac 128K - Swap 800K Internal Drive & Replace with 400K drive from Mac Plus, plus clean and lube External Drive.
My Mac 128K has the original mainboard, but has a 1MB RAM Expansion board sitting on top of the main board, and likely updated ROM to support the 800k Floppy drive.
I also have 3 or 4 800k drives that also need to be cleaned and lubed. While it is probably something I could do myself, I've never had good luck when trying to refurbish floppy drives, so I'm looking to find someone who could do it for me.
Thanks,
Joe
Please talk to Tony Diaz about repair of 400k, 800k, and 1.44mb 'superdrive' apple/sony floppy drives. There is a specific order of teardown, cleaning and lubrication to be followed, IIRC. See https://archive.org/details/Kfest2010-TonyDiazDiskDriveMaintenance for his presentation on this. Tony can be found on irc.a2central.com irc network in channel #a2c.chat as tdiaz or Tony -- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu@gmail.com jgevaryahu@hotmail.com