Repairing and Restoring a Vintage Macintosh Floppy Drive

If you're having problems with your vintage Mac floppy drive such as:
Failing to eject a disk
Sticky or seized loading
Failing to read or write data, or
Failing to format disks

This tutorial can help you clean, service and repair your auto-inject Macintosh floppy drive to try and eliminate these issues.

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3D model of replacement gear for eject mechanism (I haven't tested this, so I can't comment on its quality):
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:407...

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