Date   : Mon, 04 Sep 2006 01:30:33 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: how to repair a 5.25 drive head

>Message-ID: <BAY105-F33A980ECCF4CEC16A458C2D13C0@...>
 
You should pick more appropiate subject lines. I eagerly loaded
this message to find out how to repair a 5.25 drive head, only to
find out it was a *question* asking how to repair a drive head.
 
Should have been: "How *do* *I* repair a 5.25 drive head*?*"
 
"salahdin mahmud" <tbkc@...> wrote:
> I recently opened up a 5.25 drive and the 'sponge' head (the part that
> presses the floppy disc down) has worn with a very tiny thickness left.  How
 
Does it actually do anything?
 
> can this be repaired replaced?
 
If the drive readlly doesn't work, chuck it away and get a
replacement.
 
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