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From: rprohask@orion.oac.uci.edu (Robert Prohaska)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Cleaning FDHD's ?
Keywords: disks cleaning floppy FDHD
Message-ID: <2776EE4A.732@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Date: 25 Dec 90 06:14:33 GMT
Sender: rprohask@orion.oac.uci.edu (Robert Prohaska)
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Is it possible to remove and clean a 1.44 meg floppy drive? 

The drive is installed in a iici.  It stopped making its usual mechanical
sound when a disk was inserted, failed to mount the disk and refused
to eject it.  The disk had to be ejected using a paperclip.

All the disks I've tried give the same result.  They engage the eject
spring about half an inch later than expected and seat  much
more softly than usual.

It looks as if the disk handling mechanism is jammed with lint

The drive is still under warranty but it will probably take at least
a week to collect;  In the meantime I need the machine.

What's the best thing to do?

bob prohaska