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oh wow, this is all fantastic! Thanks so much Larry. I don't have time to work on this this weekend, but maybe early next week. I actually thought I had gotten both of my drives aligned, but then after I put the case back together and put all the screws back in, i did another test, and while I...

Thanks so much for your help Larry, I'm going to put some time into this tomorrow.

So the stepper motor is pretty secure, but I'll give the hub rotation trick a try. Thanks for the tip!

Hi Larry, So I actually found that Terry Stewart page just by googling around earlier, and using that as a guide I made some progress today. I got to the point where drive zero will boot 4 of the six trs80 disks I have perfectly, however, 2 of them won't boot at all, and I'm actually wondering...

okay, ran the first set of tests, and both drives seemed to work exactly as they should. They both spun until I hit break on the first test, and they both moved from the outer to inner position and looped until I hit break. One thing I noticed is that you said that drive zero is the top drive...

just looked at my drives, they are Texas Peripherals from 1982. In raised lettering on the bottom under the TP logo is what I'm assuming is the model number: 10-5355-001

wow, this is fantastic! Thanks so much Larry, I'll do these tests today and let you know what I get. Yea, in hindsight, swapping the stepper motors was a really stupid idea, but I wanted to try to figure out if the stepper motor was the issue with drive 1. I thought that the best way to figure...

Hi guys. I'm somewhat new at repairing these old Tandy machines and I was hoping someone might be able to help me out. I recently got a TRS-80 Model 3 with 48k of ram and two built-in disk drives. I believe the disk drives are the originals. When I first got the machine, it had quite a few...