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Post #3 by The Macster
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateTue, 22 May 2007 - 21:55
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/broken-zip-drive.8465/
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Thank you! :) Now that you point out where they are, I can see that someone's been inside it before as there is minor damage to the plastic casing around the first three points, where someone must have used a screwdriver that was slightly too big to release them. Maybe what they were trying to repair was this bit of plastic that seems to have become disattached. I don't know if you're familiar with the inside of these things or not, but if you are it's a three sided piece of black plastic which surrounds the rearward side of the silver disc at the front of the drive. It seems to be unattached on the right-hand side - should it just be pushed back into the track that it looks like it fits into? However, the spring that I can see inside the USB Zip drive on the left hand side of this bit of plastic is not there - presumably that is needed to make it work? Anyone know what this bit of plastic (and the spring) does? Presumably it is something essential to the operation of the drive...