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Short update: It turns out that the issue with my drive is the drive belt. I am pretty sure because the belt has gotten deformed, assuming two hard corners, losing its original circular shape that is characteristic of a new drive belt. * NOTE: If you have old optical drives in your old...

There is a LONG video about making system discs for vintage Macintosh

I added an item to the internet archive. https://archive.org/details/D2CD_Change_Controller Is there something that I missed?

Yes, I really do, 1388 at this moment.

16TB though, 

I have nearly 1.5 thousands optical discs, of which nearly 100% are Macintosh related so I should be able to find missing material but not always. In this case it showed up in a database search. Most of what I have is on archive.org. I upload it to the fortress of solitude FTP which is run by...

I believe this is it, Rifa PME 271 M Suppression Metallized Paper Capacitor I just don't know what the values are for your part. Hope this helps, the image is just a sample.

researching. Found this for now, worth reading. https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=31322&highlight=Astec

Someone here asked if confirmation can be established on whether the original 128K and 512K models have a resistor bleeder. Personally I don't know but if someone does please share. I want to make an important point however, the resistor bleeder can be faulty and therefore fail to bleed charge...

A very well done video by @JDW - yet another in a series of excellent videos I might add.

This might also be helpful https://powercc.org/recap/ saved here for posterity, https://web.archive.org/save/https://powercc.org/recap/

This is not true, a CRT can build up a charge over time even when disconnected. This is what I remember from my Apple Certification Training course of nearly 10 years ago. It's easy to discharge an CRT, the video just shows a Mac but they all follow the same discharge procedure.

I found the font.

well, that at least explains the issue and it does make sense that a belt would be slipping from the corresponding gears. First I would need to find steps on how to open up this drive. I have yet to remove it from the iMac itself. Thanks a million for narrowing down any isolation steps down to...

Is this it? https://web.archive.org/web/20111112100811/https://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=9816

You raise a good point on the firewire/iPod/Firewire target disk mode but I would prefer a replacement drive but in any event … as per the comment you made which I quoted. I can tell you that the optical drive appears to have a lot of strength when it attempts to eject, it sounds pretty strong...

I do see a yellow tantalum cap here, https://www.thinkclassic.org/viewtopic.php?id=202&p=2 but please note that I did not read the entire thread. If you scroll down you will eventually find post #44 where three images of the MLB have been posted, the third down has capacitor (C1) and it...

Hello I have an iMac G3 Snow White and the optical drive is rather tenacious about making ejection difficult necessitating a manual ejection which is cumbersome and not easily succeeded but only after several attempts. I will open the machine up and investigate a permanent fix but failing that...

I don't believe it has tantalums unless it is the one on the top right. see http://www.maccaps.com/MacCaps/Capacitor_Reference/Entries/1993/2/10_Macintosh_Color_Classic.html

Any updates? Bruce has some amazing videos and if you can't fix your machine, give Bruce a shout. Here is his YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXy8pDuiwZoY8_bNISGQ_Cw