Anyone refurb 400K Floppy drives?
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Thomas Andrews owns Amiga of Rochester and is on the East Coast:
I paid him to fully clean, recap and do trace repairs on a 5126 Backlit Macintosh Portable, and he is well known in the community. He attends VCF shows too. On that form page, choose General Inquiry and then describe that your 400K drives need servicing.
That's not to say he is the only person able to do the job. But I am merely citing someone in your part of the country that I have personal experience dealing with, and I walked away completely satisfied.
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I paid him to fully clean, recap and do trace repairs on a 5126 Backlit Macintosh Portable, and he is well known in the community. He attends VCF shows too. On that form page, choose General Inquiry and then describe that your 400K drives need servicing.
That's not to say he is the only person able to do the job. But I am merely citing someone in your part of the country that I have personal experience dealing with, and I walked away completely satisfied.
I saw you were getting hassled in “that other forum” today. Some people are in serious need of tact.
Just wanted to follow-up to see if Thomas Andrews worked out.
Just wanted to follow-up to see if Thomas Andrews worked out.
I put out a reply indicating his response was insufficient.
There's resources in this community, but they're kind of sparse. I.E. I'd like have my SE/30 motherboard reflowed and looked over, but I don't know of anybody who can do it.
There's resources in this community, but they're kind of sparse. I.E. I'd like have my SE/30 motherboard reflowed and looked over, but I don't know of anybody who can do it.
I see what you wrote in that other forum today, and you handled it nicely.
I never tried to contact Thomas on your behalf only because I assumed he would reply to you, but do let me know if you ever want to persue his services because I can reach out to him about your contact attempt.
I contact Thomas Andrews exclusively via Facebook Messenger and I never have issues reaching him.
Thomas gets busy at times, but always responds eventually. Good guy - honest and talented!
I also think that sometimes we regard people who offer services and assistance in places like this as a public resource when actually, they're real people with lives and commitments of their own. Sometimes the best of people appear disappointing, when they may be extremely busy, or ill, or just away from home base for vacation.
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Looking at your rough timeline, he may have been coming/going to VCFMW. I'm pretty sure I saw him there.
Oh he was at VCFMW, I ran into him a few times, he bounced someone over to me who was having a problem with an Apple II PSU.