Recapping floppy drives
Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2018 2:46 pm
(a.k.a, bring back the dead)
I have two piles of floppy drives in the closet. One of drives that no longer work, one of working drives. Usually I try really hard to source Epson 340 drives so that I can move the front bezel and eject button from the dead 380 to them, but after a while I run out of donor 380s as well as new 340s ...
... so, I really need to start getting that pile of non-working drives back up and running. I guess that in more than 50% of cases it should be solved by recapping, but there's a lack of info online from those who have done so. I thought this forum would be a good place to start ...
Currently I'm looking at doing Epson 480, 380 and a Sony MP-F11W (?). For many of them I've documented that they have "flaky motor on signal" which sounds like a dead ringer for caps ...
I have two piles of floppy drives in the closet. One of drives that no longer work, one of working drives. Usually I try really hard to source Epson 340 drives so that I can move the front bezel and eject button from the dead 380 to them, but after a while I run out of donor 380s as well as new 340s ...
... so, I really need to start getting that pile of non-working drives back up and running. I guess that in more than 50% of cases it should be solved by recapping, but there's a lack of info online from those who have done so. I thought this forum would be a good place to start ...
Currently I'm looking at doing Epson 480, 380 and a Sony MP-F11W (?). For many of them I've documented that they have "flaky motor on signal" which sounds like a dead ringer for caps ...