Dear List fellows, My question: How can I service/replace the felt brushes & scratchy metal slot edges on my 12" G4 PowerBook 1.33MHz optical drive entrance slot?
The slot felt on this machine is either sticky and clotted, or simply matted & prickly to the touch from something unknown from before I purchased it. I've seen it scratch the disks I've put into this machine before. Now that I'm replacing the now defective optical drive, it's probably time to address/service this chronic problem. In addition, the aluminum slot around the felt brushes has some fairly sharp kicks on it, and I'd like to either burnish these over or away from the opening, or file them down, or scrape them smooth. I'm concerned for the sharp fragments some of these procedures might produce, which could damage the replacement drive I'll be installing, as well as the possibility for damage to media I insert into the drive. I'm looking for your guidance here, as well. Have you encountered or heard of these problems? Have you any suggestions? Thanks so much, and thank you for the truly thoughtful suggestions & help you've been sending to me on the other issue of replacing the optical drive and the hard drive on this machine! All the best, stanton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
