On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 04:46 PM, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
Yeah, that is a very common problem with older 400k/800k drives. I have seen it on the superdrives too. The grease dries out and becomes sticky, more like glue than grease. To fix it, carefully disassemble and clean the drive, lightly oil it, and reassemble it. Don't use WD40! Use a good machine oil. WD40 will cause more problems down the road.
There used to be a great article at
http://www.lowendmac.com/macdan/2k0314.html
but the author pulled it after falling out with the site owner. Silly idiot, Chris.
You might be able to google for cached/mirrored copies.
Stuart
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