VERAULT
Veteran Member
Yesterday I was finishing up on my ... I dunno many many year restoration of my Commodore SFD-1001 floppy drive. For some reason that drive has very brittle plastics. While trying to use it I noiced the lever would not close the drive to read a disk. I noticed the pressure block (nylon) had a crack running through it which super glue could not repair.
Im sure some would argue, but there are not that many drive mechs out there... Most designs are shared. So I wondered if I had something in my stash that would work. Well as it would turn out I had a Shugart SA455 which had the exact same drive mechanism.
So I swapped the Entire lever, plastic lever, and plastic faceplate since the SFD-1001 drive plastics were brittle and cracking anyway. The only difference is the color. The commodore is dark brown the Shugart is black.
So I was able to get this drive working again but I am aware this is a stop gap. The replacement will fail in the exact same way eventually.
So is anyone aware of a 3D printed part or new part to permanently solve this?
Im sure some would argue, but there are not that many drive mechs out there... Most designs are shared. So I wondered if I had something in my stash that would work. Well as it would turn out I had a Shugart SA455 which had the exact same drive mechanism.
So I swapped the Entire lever, plastic lever, and plastic faceplate since the SFD-1001 drive plastics were brittle and cracking anyway. The only difference is the color. The commodore is dark brown the Shugart is black.
So I was able to get this drive working again but I am aware this is a stop gap. The replacement will fail in the exact same way eventually.
So is anyone aware of a 3D printed part or new part to permanently solve this?