Zombie Floppy: How To Revive A Broken 1541 Head

The Commodore 1541 floppy drive is a real workhorse, that was used by millions of C64 users. It came with drive mechanisms from different vendors. The Newtronics/Mitsumi drive assembly has the annoying fault to have their drive heads fail due to some wires going open inside of the read/write head. This is so far not economically repairable. However a clever user by the nickname of Ruuudi on German Forum64 has designed a little bodge PCB to make the half of the head that is still okay to all the work and thus revive an otherwise dead drive.

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Original thread on Forum64: https://www.forum64.de/index.php?thre...
Thread about bodge: https://www.forum64.de/index.php?thre...

0:00 Introduction
6:45 Measurements
12:56 The Bodge Resistor
13:55 Test Setup
16:25 Alignment Check
18:58 Performance Test
20:52 Demo Time
22:25 Conclusion