Old grease where? I'm not familiar with this issue... Warner
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 6:16 PM, william degnan <billdeg...@gmail.com> 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 > vintagecomputer.net > On May 23, 2017 8:13 PM, "Warner Losh via cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > 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 won't reliably move the head... >> >> I've tried cleaning the heads (which rehabbed a forth drive: a TEAC >> FD-55GFR) on these drives a few times. I'm thinking that it's too much >> hassle and I should just trash them, at least the YD-380. I have 3 1.2MB >> drives that work. The 55FRs are desirable to have working since I can put >> them in a Rainbow, but even at ebay prices it isn't worth more than an >> hour >> of my time to rehab. >> >> Before I do that I thought I'd see if there was something simple I can do. >> >> I did all my testing with the kryoflux board on a known-good disk (720k >> 5.25" drive so it tests both sides at the normal density and tests all 80 >> tracks w/o using the high density mode so the FRs can read it). >> >> Warner >> >