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From: johnhlee@hermod.cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Internal Drive Button
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Date: 24 Jan 91 20:44:29 GMT
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In article <1262@pdxgate.UUCP> twells@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Tabor Wells) writes:
>saffe@lut.fi (Petri Savolainen) writes:
>> I'm afraid your dealers gave you the correct answer.
>> But: With some tools... make a new one yourself! :)
>Wait, no, let me get this straight. I cannot get a new internal drive button
>(a little piece of molded plastic which probably cost CBM $.02 and which I
>would gladly pay $10-$15 to get) because they don't sell it? But I can shell
>out around $100 for a brand new internal drive, pay another $60 for instalation
>just so I can get a 100% working drive button? God that pisses me off...

Well, yes, except CBM doesn't sell it because CBM doesn't make it, and can't
buy it from the drive manufacturer who is *not* CBM.  CBM uses drives from
various manufacturers (Chinon, Mitsushita, etc.), and I would not be the
least surprised that the drive eject button is not individually sold by any
of them.

This kind of reminds me of when my Dad tried to replace an electronic pickup
in our boat engine.  The part probably costs a dollar, but the engine company
said that they only sell it as part of a whole new distributor...

>So just how do you suggest I make one? Or does anyone out there care to
>spare their internal drive button to a needy college student? ;-)

Try acrylic plastic.  Great stuff.  That and a moto-tool.  Another option is
to try to find some place that will sell (or even give) you the drive button
from a broken drive they have lying around.

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