First post, by SVD
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Anyone here who wants to show their cowboy fixes, that works, of old HW? I dont think one should do these if they can avoid, but sometimes it's the only/best option.
I can start with my Olivetti ,thinner than normal 3.5" floppy drive that have gotten quite the beating by one of the previous owners. Since finding these would be hard I just had to fix the mechanism by my self. It probably got a missing spring somewhere, so it would not eject at all. and did not have an eject button on top of that.
I made an eject button of some redundant plastic with the same colour from inside the case. I then took a spring from a pen, with a pin as a "guide rod" and laid the original spring that push out the diskette double. it works again, for now 😅
