Disk drive tearing sound

[lauri_t]

Hi,

I dug out my A500 and decided to play with it for a while just for fun. I noticed that the disk drive has a really ugly and tearing sound, much worse that I remembered and compared to my A1200. There is also some "resonance" (I am not sure if this is the right word to use). It sounds like the drive is in need of oil or something. The A500 was stored in a warm place and wrapped in plastic so i don't think it could have taken any damage during the approx. one half year it was stored.

Any suggestions in what to do? So long the drive has read all my disks without error but the sound is really disturbing me. I have a drive head cleaning diskette, could that help? I am not good at hardware tinkering so be very precise in your instructions, please.

[lauri_t]

The sound is the same in NDOS-games and WB. I applied the cleaning disk but the sound remains the same.

Now when I think about it, the Amiga was a bit warm to the touch when i took it from storage. It had been stored ~30cm from a warm water pipe. Could this have somehow dried up the lubricant in the drive?