Question I have: how long until it starts cracking where the top of the shim meets the original plastic? Not to be a downer, but won't that be the new stress point now?
That is a very nice example you have there. The Plus is my absolute favorite simply because it was the first machine that my family ever had. Your interpretation of the 90s events are somewhat correct in my mind. Each generation of computer blew away the next. However, what was acceptable to use...
That was why I was curious if it was the same drive, cable, etc and all that was changed was the eject motor. What was the original issue? When did it start? Is this a new computer to you and it just does this all the time, or a machine you already had with a bad eject motor that you changed out...
Yes, if the SCSI system was not reporting correctly, the machine would get stuck at a gray screen with a mouse pointer only…there would be no flashing disk ever appearing. You should be ok.
Also...if you have soft hands, and decent fingernails, you can just bend them until they slide by the chip and no further. I still haven't broken any by being very ginger. You just cant bend them like it isnt an issue.