[vcf-midatlantic] Macintosh Floppy drive repair guide
Jonathan Gevaryahu
jgevaryahu at gmail.com
Tue Jul 26 13:13:12 EDT 2016
I believe Tony Diaz gave a presentation at Kfest some odd years ago about repairing those Apple drives, and the video is on the Internet somewhere but I'm not sure where.
I'll ask Tony if he remembers where it's posted.
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> On Jul 26, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Ian Primus via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
>
> Yeah, that was me that gave that presentation. I don't think it got
> videotaped. Also, the floppy drive repair was only a part of it, I was
> going over a lot of different Mac related repairs.
>
> The repair for both the 800K and 1.4mb auto inject drives is pretty
> much the same, you have to remove the upper disk carriage and clean
> the points at which the pieces slide - the old grease will have
> solidified and glued it all together. I've not put anything together
> on the subject - there might be something out there, but I'm not sure.
> If anyone is interested, I can do a session at the next workshop or
> something.
>
> -Ian
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Matt Patoray via vcf-midatlantic
> <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I rember that someone in the group had done a presentation of Macintosh
>> floppy drive repair (it might have been Ian P, not sure).
>>
>> I have decided that my pile of bad 1 and 2 MB Mac floppy drives needs
>> attended to, they are all Sony auto inject drives.
>>
>> Was there a resentation ever done, and if so, was there a powerpoint that
>> was with it?
>>
>> Or if anyone knows of a website with a good tutorial.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Matt Patoray
>> Owner, MSP Productions
>> KD8AMG
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