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Citizen W1D drive won't accept a disk

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First post, by EvieSigma

Posted on 2021-11-13, 19:09

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I have a Compaq LTE Elite 4/75CX with the always troublesome Citizen W1D floppy drive and I'm trying to repair it, but I think I did something wrong? I opened it up to try and shrink the belt, as I don't have a replacement on hand, and after reassembly it won't accept a disk, it just gets stuck in the drive. I opened it up again and corrected an issue I noticed (the drive head assembly had somehow come loose from the worm gear that moves the heads back and forth) but I still can't actually load a disk into the drive. What did I do wrong?

Reply 1 of 2, by Thermalwrong

Posted on 2021-11-13, 22:00

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There's an arm that sits at the bottom of the drive housing. That needs to link up with the arm on the disk tray part, I think I had the same problem yesterday?

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Check that the arm is linked up like in this picture:

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I've got 2 of them in parts right now since the W1D in my T4900CT was actually broken. Yesterday I put it all back together and the disk I think got stuck in there. When I test the non-working drive with the arm not linked up in one position, the disk can no longer 'click' into the drive and just pushes back out.

Reply 2 of 2, by EvieSigma

Posted on 2021-11-14, 01:08

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That has to be my issue, then, because if I try and push in a disk it just gets stuck until I kinda lever it back out.

Thank you for the pictures, they're extremely helpful!

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