Not really a feedback thing......more like a mini how to. Seemed to fit here as well as anywhere else!

I recently had all my drives apart for painting. Everything turned out great, but, when I went to reassemble my FDD......disaster struck!

The little tab (axle) on the drive door that secures it to the case and allows it to open and close broke off!


You can see the little tab on the left, but on the right it is absent!

First there was much swearing!!! Then desperation:



Plan was to heat up a straight pin and melt it into the plastic, then cut off the excess pin. Result - you figure it out (terrible feckin plan)

Then I calmed down and got to work. I fashioned this little dumah-hickey out of a spare hose clamp and a dremel tool (I thought the slotted nature of the hose clamp metal would help with adhesion):



I then used a detail knife to scrap a bunch of plastic off the back of the floppy door to make a flat space for mounting.

The metal patch was secured to the floppy door with Plumber's Goop.

It worked like a charm! The drive is fully functional and the repair is completely invisible.

you should have just asked me for a floppy drive i have aout 6 laying in my closet from all over

yeah but what putwig did is more pimp! =D

@Pokey - you gotta a yellow floppy with a black door?
I will take it!

@Ablyss - thanx bro

Yea, a Pimp must be resourceful

i keep hearing about "floppy drives"

can some1 explain to me what they are?

They are related to "bus"...do you know what that is? It also has root in processor, memory, drive, media, and computer. When you get older CloWn you will understand.

dont start ba i know wut bus is