On Aug 19, 2007, at 6:53 PM, Ray Arachelian wrote:
Highcountryrider wrote:
If you have the older single sided floppy, the felt pad is probably
missing. You can replace it with a felt pad from the hardware store;
they are used for no-scratch feet and are not hard to find. Be very
careful of the delicate little plastic parts in the drive. They will
be very
brittle and break easily.
Ted Hodges fixed his with the head from q-tip (cotton swab for those
Sometimes a hack is just as good. :-)
And I heartily agree-don't power up any more than you have to. If
your power supply is going to fry, that's when it will go. (If you
hold down the Apple key when you hit the power button and use
the environments window to restart, you can avoid some power
cycling.)
(You can also reach behind it and push the reset button, but obviously
don't do that when Lisa Office System is running.)
(BTW I will be completing the power supply repair guide as time
permits. It needs pictures and instructions for building a test jig.)
I saw previous postings that had a list of parts and where to get them
from DigiKey which I've been meaning to add the the LisaFAQ. You might
want to do the same.
Be kind to Lisa; she's an old lady. :-)
Yup. One might assume that since I've been insane enough to write an
emulator that I spend a lot of time with my Lisas turned on, this is the
furtherest thing from the truth. I almost never power them on, except
as a last resort, when I just can't get what I need done otherwise.
I've probably clocked less than 10 hours on the Lisas in the last two years.