Use your FDD as an air filter

[RetroNinja]

This is from an A2000 I'm working on. It was quite dusty inside. It kind of made me think the box was just left on and running. I pulled the mobo and washed/cleaned it, then popped open the power supply and air cleaned that. I saw some dust on the FDD front and when it was time to clean that found....

 

[segasonic]

Mine wasn't reading discs and the mechanism was sluggish. Clean and grease and it's fine again. I'm going to go back in and finish it properly though.

 

[RetroNinja]

Do you use any special grease? I was thinking it'd be good to grease the worm gear rail since it is open.

 

[segasonic]

Do you use any special grease? I was thinking it'd be good to grease the worm gear rail since it is open.

Just white grease. I removed all the filth that remained of the original grease then treated the worm gear, the runner at the other side and the 4 plastic wheels at the sides that the eject mechanism rides on.