[Coco] FD-500 ITEMS NEEDED

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 14 June 2014 00:14:57 Josh Harper via Coco did opine
And Gene did reply:
> the drive  door open/shuts fine it seems  but when  u open the drive
> door/latch  its  seems loose/weak doesn't spring back up as well
> 
Goes hand in hand usually.  The foot pad can probably be had at Lowes in 
the specialty bolt cabinets.

> ________________________________
>  From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 6:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] FD-500 ITEMS NEEDED
> 
> 
> On Friday 13 June 2014 18:14:34 Josh Harper via Coco did opine
> 
> And Gene did reply:
> > in need of a few things to fix one of my  fd-500's   does any one 
> > have a bad fd-500 that there willing to part with or part out  items
> > needed a good not scratched  logo , also need  the latch spring mine
> > is weak, also need  one foot on bottom of drive
> > 
> > thanks guys
> 
> That "weak latch spring" is more than likely the plastic rosette that
> centers the disk on the spindle, has collapsed.  If you bring it to the
> drive hub, and can then wiggle it sideways, its collapsed.  You should
> be able to feel its fingers entering the hub with a few grains of
> resistance. Only if its tight, will it properly center the disk on the
> hub.  Short of finding an internal "Truarc" snap ring of the correct
> size to set into the inside of the fingers, pushing the fingers back
> out in time (it is called cold flow), I know of no other cure since
> they are all old & grey bearded by now.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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