Re: Fixing flakey floppies

I have also encountered many drives in which the grease inside the hub spindle and/or hub clamp bearings had dried out. When I am cleaning up a new-to-me old floppy drives, I check all of the ball bearings in the spindle and hub clamp to make sure that they spin freely. If they drag noticeably,

Re: Fixing flakey floppies

On 05/23/2017 05:40 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > On Tue, 23 May 2017, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: > In addition to cleaning the heads, look at the parts that slide when the > head moves. The old grease is probably in bad shape by now. With a > little solvent (WD-40 is NOT a solvent),

Re: Fixing flakey floppies

On Tue, 23 May 2017, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: Greetings, I have three flakey floppies. I wonder if they are worth fixing. Two are TEAC FD-55FRs. One appears to not report the INDEX mark, the other works well until around track 35 or so then fails... The third floppy is a 1.2 MB YD-380. It

Re: Fixing flakey floppies

Old grease where? I'm not familiar with this issue... Warner On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 6:16 PM, william degnan wrote: > Warner...get rid of old grease and replace if you have it, like an early > MAC Apple drive benefits from. Might help > > Bill Degnan > twitter: billdeg >

Re: Fixing flakey floppies

Warner...get rid of old grease and replace if you have it, like an early MAC Apple drive benefits from. Might help Bill Degnan twitter: billdeg vintagecomputer.net On May 23, 2017 8:13 PM, "Warner Losh via cctalk" wrote: > Greetings, > > I have three flakey floppies. I

Fixing flakey floppies

Greetings, I have three flakey floppies. I wonder if they are worth fixing. Two are TEAC FD-55FRs. One appears to not report the INDEX mark, the other works well until around track 35 or so then fails... The third floppy is a 1.2 MB YD-380. It won't reliably move the head... I've tried cleaning