Re: Replacement for broken 1541-II disk drive levers ?

From: Uffe Jakobsen <uffe_at_uffe.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:18:41 +0100
Message-ID: <50B48571.7010004@uffe.org>
On 2012-11-26 17:45, Nate Lawson wrote:
> On Nov 26, 2012, at 7:30 AM, Uffe Jakobsen wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for all your inputs - currently I have no access to a 3D printer - so I'm currently looking for something that'll be able to (permanently) grip around the metal lever pin inside the drive.
>>
>> Any ideas ?
>
>
> It may be ugly, but welding a piece of steel to it, bent like an "L" would work well. Since the pin is keyed (one flat side), you could also use some copper or steel tube and flatten one edge.
>

Thanks Nate - that was actually such a solution that I was 
looking/asking for - easy and fast to implement and yet functional - how 
it looks doesn't matter - I just got tired of using pointed pliers to 
open and close the drive...

/Uffe




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