[vcf-midatlantic] Macintosh Floppy drive repair guide

[Tony Bogan]

Sorry, hit send a tad early! There are multiple videos on that page. The first is a 2012 drive video and there is another one further down the page (along with lots of other goodies!)
Tony

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> On Jul 26, 2016, at 5:24 PM, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> 
> I believe this is the link for the video.
> https://www.kansasfest.org/tag/tony-diaz/
> Tony
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jul 26, 2016, at 1:13 PM, Jonathan Gevaryahu via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> 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