Re: Replacement drive mechanism for 1581

This is what I did with my 1581's:

http://pix.jbevren.net/v/e/1851pc/

Bear in mind that the eject button won't line up with the 1581 faceplate.
I just have mine carefully packed away.

-David

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:17 PM, MikeS <dm561@torfree.net> wrote:

> Issue 25, p. 20.
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> Tnx, gene!
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "geneb" <geneb@deltasoft.com>
> To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 1:34 PM
> Subject: Re: Replacement drive mechanism for 1581
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>  On Wed, 18 Mar 2015, William Levak wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The drive mechanism for my 1581 has stopped
>>> working. It was a Chinon F-354E. I tried a
>>> Chinon FZ-357 as a replacement.  I could not
>>> get it to work, even though I tried all the
>>> jumper variations that seemed reasonable. I
>>> also have a Newtronics D359T3 and a Teac
>>> FD-235HF, but their jumpers are not marked, and
>>> I don't know how to set them.
>>>
>>> I know these are HD drives, but they should
>>> also be able to work in DD mode.
>>>
>>>  William, there's an issue of Commodore World
>> that contains an article on what you need to do
>> in order to use an HD mech in a 1581.
>> Unfortunately, I don't recall which issue it is.
>> The good news is that the IA has all of them
>> scanned and online.
>>
>> https://archive.org/details/commodore-world
>>
>> g.
>>
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