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Floppy drive wont go down and make a continuous ejecting sound

Blake

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Hi! Recentley i bought a macitosh plus it was working pretty well for 2 weeks. A few days ago i was ejecting a floppy disc and the floppy came up but got stuck and it started makeing the continuous ejecting noise. After I got it out with the paper clip in the whole trick I tried putting another disc but it didn't make the floppy Drive tray go down. I'm hoping I just have to relube it. Please help me and tell me what's wrong with my Mac and how I could fix it

 
There's about a 100% chance the tiny nylon gear in the eject mechanism has stripped/disintegrated.

The good news is you can get a replacement.





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