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My Macintosh 128K

68kMLA Peripherals 4 posts May 19, 2015 to May 19, 2015

#1 Tue, 19 May 2015 - 03:37 68kMLA

Howdy from Texas. [

] ]'> I was given a Macintosh 128K & Apple ImageWriter I by one of my clients a few years ago and just got around to booting it up. Unfortunately, neither the built-in floppy nor the external floppy will take a disk. Is there a way to fix them? I read online about lubing the mechanism, but didn't get much info on how/where to lube them.

TIA.

#2 Tue, 19 May 2015 - 05:28 68kMLA

Yes I fixed mine with lube, just don't over do it

#3 Tue, 19 May 2015 - 05:34 68kMLA

Well, I tore open the external floppy disk tonight and got the mechanism unstuck by using small dabs of WD-40. I have to hold the eject button open to insert/eject disks, but at least it's reading them. I'll tear open the Mac itself and pull out its disk drive and see what I can do. Need to get it lubed enough where the auto eject will work.

#4 Tue, 19 May 2015 - 06:25 68kMLA

When I was doing it I found a tutorial online on how to do it and where to apply the lube. I can't remember the address but if you google it you may be able to find it.