Zirias wrote:

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Amiga 500 found on the street, repaired floppy drive mechanics, but power supply is missing....

I kinda remember that back in the old days it was more common practice to repair floppydrives because they used to be expensive.
I would imagine there was a market back then for skilled technicians with a lot of information about what caused a floppydrive to malfunction, and how to repair it!
Later on floppydrives became so cheap, it was easier to toss the old drives and just buy a new one.

However, with us all collecting old stuff, it will become increasingly interesting to obtain knowledge of repairing our old stuff (myself included).

Not sure why I'm even typing this, for some reason I saw you repaired your own floppydrive and this came to my mind.

Anyway, hope you'll be posting more 😉

In 1990, I obtained three defective 5.25 drives. I was able to scavenger one and repair two. One I sold, one I kept.

Repairing them is just common sense in 90% of all cases. Same goes for CD/DVD drives.

Zirias, I do not know you. But it seems like you know your shit, but welcome on board. And I hope you will be a valuable asset to this board.

ux-3 wrote:

In 1990, I obtained three defective 5.25 drives. I was able to scavenger one and repair two. One I sold, one I kept.

Repairing them is just common sense in 90% of all cases. Same goes for CD/DVD drives.

I for one, would be most interested in learning how to fix floppy/ CD/ DVD drives. Would a guide be practical? Or is this one of those too hard to do unless you're an expert things?

sgt76 wrote:

ux-3 wrote:

In 1990, I obtained three defective 5.25 drives. I was able to scavenger one and repair two. One I sold, one I kept.

Repairing them is just common sense in 90% of all cases. Same goes for CD/DVD drives.

I for one, would be most interested in learning how to fix floppy/ CD/ DVD drives. Would a guide be practical? Or is this one of those too hard to do unless you're an expert things?

That would depend on what exactly is broken.
Fixing the cdrom 'drawer' is real easy many times.

I have one floppy drive 3.5in 2.88M which seem to have a broken motor, can't remember if it's the spindle or the stepper motor. I have however kept a spare unit for parts, just in case I ever came around to try and fix it.
It's exactly the same as the 2.88M unit, except that it's a 1.44M unit. The internal parts should be interchangeable mostly.

WolverineDK wrote:

Zirias, I do not know you. But it seems like you know your shit, but welcome on board. And I hope you will be a valuable asset to this board.

Thank you 😉 Maybe I could, at least I am interested in coding... I'm just a little unhappy that I can't use any of my Amigas right now because of broken and missing power supply.

If anyone is interested, my current private project is a remake of an AmigaBASIC game. http://sekrit.de/stoneage/