800k floppy switches?

[PotShotScott]

Quick question - is the micro switch on the left complete/whole? I expect it to have a lever like the other side. Don’t have another one to compare with.

 

[mloret]

You’re right, it should have a lever like the other one.

 

[PotShotScott]

Is this why the motor never spins?

 

[mloret]

yes I think it might be. Do you have another switch?

 

[PotShotScott]

No but it looks like they’re available at mouser.com

 

[mloret]

There you go. You good with Desoldering and soldering?

 

[PotShotScott]

Yep! Three weeks of soldering school in the Navy back in the 1990s has served me well.

 

[PotShotScott]

Decided to try something. I loaded a disk, placed the drive on the ribbon cable and used a qtip to hold the micro switch down. Got a floppy icon on boot with an X in the middle. Sigh - I have another issue to fix before I put a new micro switch in...

 

[bibilit]

The switch on the left is for read protection, the right is the one to detect the disk, so spinning the drive.

Your problem can be a bad disk or sorry head.