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Re: A3000 floppy disk eject button
« on: December 28, 2017, 03:37:18 AM »
Just installed this eject button in my A3000 after a bit of fiddling.

It went pretty well, except I had a few misfires trying to print and had to add some supports so that it wouldn't peel up (even off the heated bed) during printing.

Needed to do some filing in order to fit it through the slot on the floppy drive's pushbar. The first time I put the shield back on the drive, I accidentally tried to put the back hook on top of the shield's "hump" instead of under it. That meant the drive rode up in the case and wasn't accessible from the front, and it was really annoying to screw together. Much easier when you actually do what they intended!

Works very well. I had to de-rust and lube up the springs since my A3000 has sat in an attic for the last twenty years before the eject mechanism would actually eject a disk, but once that was done, everything works well.

Thanks a lot for making this available to the community!
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