On Jul 9, 2010, at 7:13 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I just got a first gen iMac G5... put a disk in the hummer, when to eject it and the iMac spit the thing half way across the room!! (small room) is it the felts that have worn out? or what is the problem? doesn't make me want to use the superdrive much.... ha ha! Jeff
Every first-gen iMac G5 I've seen has the same problem. The felt just doesn't create enough drag on a disc to overcome the awesome ejection mechanism. Apple's fix was to make an add-on split gasket available. The problem went away with second-gen and later G5 iMacs. Bruce Johnson made the same discovery recently. Kind of a shocker the first time it happens, isn't it? I've seen several fixes for the iMac G5 skeet trap. One involves taping a little basket to the side of the iMac. Another involves making a gasket out of thin foam slit for the disc and sandwiching it between the drive and the case, a la the Apple fix. I'm always amazed at what kind of goofy things manage to get past Apple's product engineers and design staff and make it all the way into the hands of innocent consumers. Hockey puck mice with no sense of direction. Magic mice with sharp edges and bad ergonomics. iMacs that act like skeet traps. Not to mention iMacs that want to be Hoover vacs. :^) Toss in the antics of up to 40 or so bad capacitors, and the iMac G5 is one of the most surprising and entertaining products Apple has produced. I had one that etched a quarter-inch white line halfway across the bottom of its 20-inch LCD five (5) times before Apple took it away. What fun! -- Jim Scott -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
