Internal Floppy stuck / broken gear (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by waspentalive@lemmy.world 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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[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] waspentalive@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Are you sure they're different? They might be similar enough honestly.

Here's a IIC + drive

And here's an 800k mac floppy.

I don't have any spare 800k drives lying around to compare. But here's more photos of a IIC+ drive.

Worst case just pop open the auto eject mechanism and take a look. It already doesn't work.

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