Re: Congealed grease

[Stephen Shaw <stephen@apple2.org.invalid.za>]

On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 21:56:26 -0700, Wayne Stewart wrote:

> I was going to try a few things with some Mac 400k drives connected to
> an Apple II UDC card. To my surprise none of the 4 drives I had
> squirreled
> away worked. Problem was the grease had become thick enough that all the
> moving parts were literally stock together. I managed to get things
> moving
> with some Q-tips and lacquer thinner but there must be a better way. Had
> the same problem with a 3.5" UniDisk last year. So what's the best way
> to
> clean the old grease out of a 3.5" drive?
>
> Wayne

Isopropyl alcohol, paraffin (kerosene to the Yanks) as it does no or very
little damage to rubber or plastic parts. Most repairers of dot matrix printers
used to clean the platen roller with isopropyl.
	Ideally an ultrasonic bath type cleaner. But buck$$$$$


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