Broken floppy drive

[Anonymous]

Whenever I turn my Macintosh Plus on, the floppy drive constantly whirrs. This was after I used a Q-tip and isopropyl to clean the heads and some dust in the slot.



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[chu-oh]

Sounds like a broken gear, very common and pretty easy to fix. Give this a read: 





I got mine from eBay from a guy in Italy that sells them. If you're not fussed I believe you can remove the gear alltogether and just manually eject disks.