How do I clean a Floppy drive??

[Cass]

it doesnt detect my floppies correctly at times (so i have to reinsert em a few times before it can read them)

Note the pin-switch on the opposite side for the write-protected detection (right side): If this little pin is bent or stuck then you will have a no-disk inserted error, or read/write errors while the disk is in the drive.

I bought myself a floppy-cleaning kit for the A4000 internal drive.
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[Cass]

The "Disk Drive Head Cleaner Kit" that I have, was the last one left over on a computer store in Athens (I`ve ordered this specific product for 3.5" drives to my parents  -not to be confused by the CD cleaner kits widely known and found on any computer/music store- ).

It seems that is easier this time to buy a new floppy drive than to find a floppy cleaner kit !! The average PC user, changes the whole setup after a certain period of time.

My A4000 HD floppy drive is not quite the same as the "over the counter" PC-drives, and it has more or less 10 years on its back so it needs maintenance.

The Kit contains an Isopropyl Alcohol bottle, and a floppy cleaning diskette (without the metal slide cover, and the magnetic disk is substituted by a porous white cloth material -you have to apply a few drops of cleaning liquid on the underside of the diskette, before inserting it into the drive- ).
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