Quantum Prodrive possible repair

Maybe. What i will do though this weekend when I get some extra time, is fire it up on the mac and do a LLF in drive setup. make sure it comes clean with 0 bad sectors.

What i might do is use clear silicone? I might dab that on there and when it dries, use a razor to shape it. Other option is buy new rubber idlers for cassette deck restoration, or printer pick-up rollers and just cut that down to size.

Techknight, thanx for the tip on the head thing with the paper/ toothpick. I did not know that and its great information. And Awesome about your drive... I never looked inside one of the LPS drives but would assume they would be similar; as what you described with the bumper and post is how the other looked inside. But I did not have to remove the head.

I have not attempted to remove a platter yet. Is it hard to do?

Great idea about the silicone...would last long too.

I would try this if I had the tools and I hadn't wrecked it with my last repair attempt.

I'd also be curious to see how well this works with the higher capacity drives like my 160 MB one.

ya! I would be interested as well. I bet they have at least two platters though.

Those ELS drives seem to be the most popular of the bunch as that is what I see mostly inside the 80 meg option machines.

Single platter drives are easy as pie. Multiplatter dtives you need a proper removal tool. Or... a modified piston ring compressor

link:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-5-Desktop-Hard-Drive-Platter-Swap-Replacement-Tool-/271210722457?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f256b3499

Kind of pricey, but he offers both the 2.5 and 3.5 version. With these tools, and technique, uniserver can start refurbishing HDDs.

lol.

yea, well.. it was a thought. lol