If you are handy with tools, pull drive and clean, blow out dust and remove old grease and oil. relube (vaseline, sewing machine grease, fishing reel lube, etc works if you can't find anything else) with carefully applied light coating verses heavy coating. test for proper operation. chuck lenington
Jason White wrote: > > About a month ago (give or take), I asked a question about floppy disks snip.......... Are there any kind of adjustments for the eject mechanism? Perhaps an > area I should look for excessive dust bunnies? I've used this machine > pretty steady for the last 2 years or so, so the fan may have piled a > bunch of poop somewhere it shouldn't be. > > It doesn't appear that the disk is rubbing the case plastic when ejected, > but is there a way to check if the drive has shifted a bit on its bracket? > > As it will likely be easier to replace this drive than fix it, what > models use the same drive? I have quite a few Macs in my basement, > ranging from a Plus to a G3 MT. I've read about these manual inject and > auto inject drives, and never really understood the difference. The donor > machines I have in mind are the IIci (preferably, I have quite a few > drives from those machines) or an LC II. Any other machines would require > pulling a drive from a working unit :( > > Perhaps this repair will be the one that I add the extra 16M RAM I've had > for for nearly a year now while the case is cracked? Well, actually only > 12M, as the machine currently has 20M (4-4M, and 4-1M). > > Any advice would be appreciate, > -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
