On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 10:32 PM, Robert Gray wrote:
>> The best way to clean the floppy drive
>> is to yank it and use compressed air.
>
> That won't do anything to remove the accumulation of debris on the
> heads. You'll need to clean them either with alcohol on a Q-tip or
> run one of those silly cleaning disks.
It does however remove the build up of fluff and crud that can get into
the disk and crap it up *outside* of the heads. Even though the heads
are the only bit that touch the media the hole that i s opened to allow
this is wider than the heads on Apple drives (and most others FTM) and
allows dirt into the disk. Add to that the fact that dust has an uncanny
knack of transmitting static electricity and you have a recipe for
disaster. I, personally, strongly advise that if your floppy drive is
dirty you drive the fluff out with canned air or something like that to
get rid of pesky fluff.
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