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Internal Floppy stuck / broken gear (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/vintage_apple@lemmy.world
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Apple IIC+ OH NOES! My internal floppy eject mechanism has failed. I had to remove the little motor assembly that pushes the internal eject lever, and now I push that manually when I want to remove a floppy. (I push the eject button, which is wired to the motherboard, wait a moment, then push the mechanical lever to physically eject the disk) The motor assembly has a gear that has disintegrated.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does it use the same mechanism as Macintoshs? If so those gears are really cheap now on ebay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/235320197466

Lil noisy compared to the original. But 4 of them for the weed number you can't argue with that.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think they are likekly to be different - the mechanism on a Mac can hold more per disk. There is a picture of a Mac drive and it looks different than the drive inside the shield of my Apple IIC+ internal drive.

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