i did a pretty neat job to begin with but i took your advice and used the rubbing alcohol on the head. im having a tough time locating a source for 3.5 inch floppies around here (toronto canada)
________________________________ From: Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 4:34:41 AM Subject: Re: Mac 512k diskette drive requires slight prying of diskette during ejection. Use some rubbing alcohol on a cotton swab to carefully clean the drive's heads before you put a disk in. Better would be the alcohol on a cleaning disk if you have one. Of course let the alcohol evaporate before inserting a disk. You don't want any WD-40 that may have spattered onto the heads getting onto disks. --- On Fri, 5/25/12, Daniel Pereira <[email protected]> wrote: i used compressed air then sprayed a bit of WD40 into the moving parts and used some silicone after it dried up it appears to be moving in a way i didn't think it could. i guess the dust just clogged it up over time. haven't put her back together yet, because im doing a retrobrite treatment to my set up. looking good so far. -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
