A 1581 Refurb that is nearly a disaster. Will we get it working?

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In this video we do a complete refurbishment of a Commodore 1581 3.5” disk drive. This 1581 came out late in the C64/C128 life cycle but offered owners of those machines a comparatively large amount of storage per disk. It shares the same 3.5” drive mechanism with early Amigas with a built-in interface PCB for the C= IEC serial bus.

The restoration was going along swimmingly until it was noticed that the write protect/enable switches were not working properly. An attempt to fix them was a near disaster. Will we get the drive running again? Join us and find out.

Timeline:
00:00 – Welcome
01:18 – Evaluation, PS testing, teardown
13:20 – Drive mechanism evaluation and teardown
20:45 – Drive mechanism cleaning and lubrication
31:24 – Retr0Briting the case
33:05 – Surprise look at power supply innards
37:29 – Reassembly and basic testing
45:55 Close up of drive operating, problem found, disaster strikes
1:01:32 – Wrap up. Thanks!

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