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Seagate ST-225 problems

can anyone advise where best you can lube the spindle on one of these drives?

can't be done from the outside as it's sealed, can't even see the spindle with the lid off.....
 
No, if you remove the 3 screws holding the PCB on (one front center, two back sides when looking at the drive with the PCB up and the front away from you), you can lift the logic board enough to get at the spindle. If you need a bit more space, disconnect the ribbon cable plug (front left) BUT look at it first because one side will have a set of pins that don't go into the connector.

This will allow you to cant the board over to the left at a 90 degree angle.

I like using 3-in-1 oil to lube the spindle.
 
Terry Yager said:
That's the gotcha, ya gotta open 'er up (in your A-1000 Clean Room, of course).
--T
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I remember Scott Mueller of Repairing PC book fame, mentioned that he used to take drive with the lid off to his demonstrations. He said it worked just fine! My guess is it depends on the importance of the data just how clean you need to be. Remember that floppies work. Fatter tracks of course, but still, it's amazing that something that crude can work at all - thanks to error correction.

I've taken the top of an IDE drive for repair and it worked OK after that. I used the same techniques that biologists used to use for doing culture transfer before the fancy filters became affordable. The more modern way of sitting in front of a HEPA filter with the air flow moving towards you will keep out small particles even smaller that spores. It is also relatively cheap to set up, as many amateur mychologists know. :) Anyway, its fun to play around with stuff.
 
Not having a clean room never stopped me, but then, I'm me. As to lubing the spindle from the outside, what about the other end? I guess halfway is 50% better than nothing, but...

--T
 
Terry Yager said:
Not having a clean room never stopped me, but then, I'm me. As to lubing the spindle from the outside, what about the other end? I guess halfway is 50% better than nothing, but...

--T
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3-in-1 is a penetrating oil and will work it's way down the spindle to the bearings, especially if you let it sit there (with the drive up-side-down) for an hour and then power it up.
 
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