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[tsm]

Tsm, Joshua: Let me know how your repair efforts are coming along. It would be great if you could breathe new life into those things.

Of course! I'm planning to start next week.

[tsm]

Hello!
At last I had the chance of peeking into the drive. There was a small iron "button", 3 - 4 mm in diameter, stuck to the spinner motor's magnet. That's the reason of the ugly noise. I pulled it out but I think the copper traces got eaten by the button scraping on them in the rotation. I'm talking about the mech's PCB here.
I'm having a break now. I'll share any news or progress.

[pitcalco]

You're a better man than I, TSM.

Good detective work. Keep me posted.

[tsm]

The mech seems to work perfectly! Apparently, removing the foreign body was all that was needed.

I don't know about the logic board but I think it should work, judging by the LEDs' behavior when I first turned the drive on. I wanted to install the switching PSU from my mech-less 1571 in your drive, but it wouldn't fit. It barely fits in the drive it was shipped with, as well. To sum it up, I ended up installing the mech from your drive in mine, although mine is quite yellow and scratched. But I don't trust linear PSU's at all. In the process, I also put JiffyDOS in.

Thank you pitcalco for your time, the drive and the fun!

[pitcalco]

Excellent work on your part, TSM!

I am glad to see that you got it working again.
Enjoy your drive.