dafivehole Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 I sold one of these on eBay and it worked perfectly when it was listed... when the buyer received it, he had the following question: "Okay, so I unpackaged the drive, and as I was taking the drive out of the bubble wrap, I heard rattling in the case. A piece could be heard sliding around, clearly not connected. I opened the case and found a metal piece that is "U"-shaped, with little tiny black rubber-like rectangular pads on one side at the bottom, and each side of the metal piece. The piece is about 1 inch across and 3/4 inch top to bottom, and a fraction of an inch thick. Any idea what this is? I have looked for a service manual and cannot find one. I am hesitant to power up the drive with this piece not connected." Can anyone help identify what this piece is? I can't get a pic from him because FeeBay won't allow me to send him my email address. Any help is greatly appreciated... Thanks, Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Hmmm, I *guess* its the shield on top and bottom of the read/write heads. Most of my double-sided 5,25" drives did lose this shield (1.2MB PC drives, 360k XF551 drives, etc.) and sometimes when it became lose it went right into the read/write head giving me hundreds of errors when trying to read a disk. It is absolutely no problem removing these shields. The drive, as well as the read/write heads, will work without it. Afair, in the past one of my double-sided drives got "killed" because of such a loose shield. Think these cheap shields are there to protect the read/write head from dust, if not I do not know why they are there. The floppy drive can still function without properly this shield... -Andreas Koch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panther Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Yep, those little metal shields fall right off. I superglued them back in place on mine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafivehole Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 I got a pic of it... is this the shield in question? Thanks, Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam242 Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 I had a similar experience with an XF551... check this thread: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/216223-xf551-repair-success-and-question/?hl=%2Bxf551+%2Brepair+%2Bsuccess+%2Brepair&do=findComment&comment=2823979 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panther Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 I got a pic of it... is this the shield in question? Yes, that's it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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