Colour Classic Floppy Drive Eject Problem

[D3lky]

During a recent install the floppy drive eject stopped working. The drive still works accepting and reading disks and I can eject by using the manual pin hole release.

1. Is this common? I heard it is.

2. With a rudimentary comfortability with performing surgery on such machines are their any clues on the repair?

Thanks heaps!

 

[bibilit]

Pretty common on the 800k model, not so on yours, but eject motor can be faulty, or just a plastic gear on the inside assembly.

 

[D3lky]

Any repair possible or just look for another drive on ebay?

 

[bibilit]

Better find another one, you can have a LC for really cheap i think, remove the floppy drive and some parts are you are ok.

You can also find the gear (3D printed) but not cheap.

 

[D3lky]

I have an LC 575 in parts here. Also a 7300/180. Are these drives all the same? I could swap that out easily enough.

 

[bibilit]

Those are not the auto inject type, probably the manual one.