on 6/30/03 9:31 PM, Benjamin Berry at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Argghhhhh!!! > > Anyone have something better than this? > > "Cleaning Floppy Drives
I'll simply tell you what I do. It is approved in some circles, and abhorred in others. I remove the drive from the Mac and then pull it from it's cover. I blast it good with canned air, then dust it with a model-sized paintbrush. Then, I spray silicon lube into a plastic medicine dose cup. I dip the paint brush into it and dab the bottom slider, the square metal piece that ejects the disk, at the retaining points. There are four. I dab the eject motor gears. I dab the moving arms on the top of the drive. I work a junk disk in the drive a dozen or so times. Without reassembling the Drive, I rehook the drive cable and turn on the Mac. Setting the drive in a good unobstructed and non-shorting (electrically) place, I put the junk disk in the drive and let the Mac eject it many times until it seems to work freely. I shut down the Mac. I spray the drive with canned air to remove excess oil. Then it all gets reassembled. Jeff -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
