Interesting thought on the clear lid! I've also been thinking... }

More related: I was wondering what people think about lubrication of the head assembly. I was going to try doing so when my drive wouldn't unpark, but that's was only after I'd wrecked the top platter with my finger when trying the temporary "manual unpark" fix :-/ . But anyway, what do you think?

Do not operate the drive with the cover off though, at least not if you intend to keep it working for long. Running the open drive is where you get into trouble.

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I did that with my drive when I was trying to fix it, and eventually it made a funny smell, and then the heads stopped moving properly. Now, every time I switch it on, it goes "click chick, click chick, click chick" about five times, and then stops. Why??? That's not air currents, is it?