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Removing eject mechanism for Mitsubishi Superdrives?
Are there any instructions for removing the top part of the eject mechanism for the Mitsubishi Superdrives?
There's a really good guide for doing this on the Sony drives: https://wiki.68kmla.org/Floppy_drive_lubrication
I was hoping to find somthing similar for the Mitsubishi drives. I've got a couple of these drives and I want to give them a really good cleanup but it's hard to do unless you can remove the top part of the eject mechanism.
Drive model numbers are: MF355F-592MA
There's a really good guide for doing this on the Sony drives: https://wiki.68kmla.org/Floppy_drive_lubrication
I was hoping to find somthing similar for the Mitsubishi drives. I've got a couple of these drives and I want to give them a really good cleanup but it's hard to do unless you can remove the top part of the eject mechanism.
Drive model numbers are: MF355F-592MA
use a big pry bar?
This brings up a good point. While there's plenty of information on maintaining all the auto-inject 400k, 800k, and SuperDrives, there's not a whole lot about the manual inject models (such as this one).
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Because they havent reached the age of failure just quite yet...
Both of mine are 20+ years old. Neither would work properly until I did a basic re-grease job. One still has some write issues that I suspect is due to parts of the mechanism that still needs cleaning.
Wow, crazy. I haven't had a manual inject drive fail on me yet.
There's not much information around at all about these drives. I might just start tinkering with it and work out how to disassemble the eject mechanism. I'll post any details of a procedure I come up with.
Yea, you would be the first. Have at it!
At least the manual inject drives are more common. That's the one problem the auto inject drives have.
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