Found a box of old floppy disks in my grandpa's attic last weekend

I was up there looking for some tools and saw a plastic crate full of 5.25 inch disks, maybe 40 of them. My old Compaq Portable II from 1986 still works, so I tried to read one. The drive made this awful grinding noise and wouldn't spin up. I opened the drive and found the belt had turned to sticky goo, it was a total mess. Anyone know a good source for replacement belts for a Teac FD-55GFR drive, or am I better off trying to clean and salvage the old one?

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3 Comments

kim.sandra23d ago

That belt goo gets on everything and ruins the drive head. I had a Teac FD-55B with the same problem, the whole unit was a sticky paperweight. You can find belts on eBay, but cleaning the old one never works.

joelsanchez23d ago

Honestly that goo can't be that bad, can it?

hunt.rowan23d ago

Seriously? Just toss the whole drive... that goo is a lost cause and those disks are probably blank anyway.