I will head on down soon to a computer place of some kind and see if they have floppy cleaner disks.
A floppy drive on a Compact Mac isn't allowed to fail, for any reason. Just like a differential in a RWD vehicle: it should never fail, for any reason, barring lack of lubrication upkeep or excessive power. Ever. I shouldn't even have to think about it. Okay if it's a limited slip diff and it gets noisy at 600k KM (about 400k miles) that's probably okay, but it should never catastrophically fail. (And the limited slip assembly should come out easily, and the rear cover should have both fill AND drain plugs -- none of this procedure where you suck it out of the fill plug with a vaccum pump (I once spent 45 minutes getting maybe half of it out on a late mode Explorer))
A floppy drive on a Compact Mac isn't allowed to fail, for any reason. Just like a differential in a RWD vehicle: it should never fail, for any reason, barring lack of lubrication upkeep or excessive power. Ever. I shouldn't even have to think about it. Okay if it's a limited slip diff and it gets noisy at 600k KM (about 400k miles) that's probably okay, but it should never catastrophically fail. (And the limited slip assembly should come out easily, and the rear cover should have both fill AND drain plugs -- none of this procedure where you suck it out of the fill plug with a vaccum pump (I once spent 45 minutes getting maybe half of it out on a late mode Explorer))