A1011 Floppy Drive problems

[ajlwalker]

I am now the lucky owner of an A1011 floppy drive.  An ebay purchase I couldn't resist.  I even got an Amiga mouse thrown in free.  I was looking for one of those too!

Here's the issue:  The no disk present click sounds as normal.  However, when I insert a floppy it doesn't detect it too well.  If I insert softly and exert some upward pressure on the disk, it is detected and will then read normally.

Anybody any ideas?  I love to take things apart, but I'd hate to wreck this beautiful object.  Thought I'd ask you guys first.  Is it an easy drive to open and service?

Thoughts please!

[Brian]

I don't think you have to worry too much about wrecking it. As you got some experience opening other things just remember use causion and you should be safe. I don't own one though so I might be mistaking.

[Morley]

If the drive inside is broken, or you happen to wreck it trying to fix it, it's no problem, as it's 100% identical to the A500 internal drive.

I have taken my 1011 apart one time, it is really no big deal at all.

[TjLaZer]

You can try to clean the insert disk detect pin first.  What I did on my 3000T drive is spray the pin with compressed air real good and it worked!  (on the little pin) I was all prepared to open it up and take it apart but this ended up doing the trick...