stumbled on your videos, you're truly inspirational for the process of great pieces of gear. I really need help on servicing my Akai s950, do you take any repair jobs? appreciate the help and response
Did you end up eventually replacing the floppy drive? Mine still works but I'm replacing the screen with a new LED screen so while it's open I'm also upgrading the floppy drive with a floppy drive emulator.
I just did this to an s900 I just bought unfortunately it didn’t improve any problems, I will add that your screw that moves the disk head is very course threaded in comparison to mine. I now have a usb drive ready to fit and a new led screen, would love to have got the floppy working but there you go I can only wonder at the box of 70 floppies that came with it, I guess it’s the flop house for them..
I'm afraid the player is not the factory one (mitsumi d357) which you can recognize from the front panel with the central floppy eject button. Unfortunately, the 900 compared to the 950 has a higher non-standard housing and a common reader would leave a hole. For these I needed this precious information, if I could help me I would be happy. Thank you
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Awesome video my disk drive is acting up. They or over 30 years old now
Just did this on my s950 aswell as changing all the caps in the psu. 🙏
stumbled on your videos, you're truly inspirational for the process of great pieces of gear. I really need help on servicing my Akai s950, do you take any repair jobs? appreciate the help and response
What are you needing to do?
My s950 drive is too getting very temperamental to the point it refuses to work. Gonna give this a try
Great video thanks will try this
Did you end up eventually replacing the floppy drive? Mine still works but I'm replacing the screen with a new LED screen so while it's open I'm also upgrading the floppy drive with a floppy drive emulator.
@@HowardBaileyMusic mine still works for now. I put the fde in my X7000. I’m also refurbishing a Mirage rack and that floppy still works too.
I just did this to an s900 I just bought unfortunately it didn’t improve any problems, I will add that your screw that moves the disk head is very course threaded in comparison to mine. I now have a usb drive ready to fit and a new led screen, would love to have got the floppy working but there you go I can only wonder at the box of 70 floppies that came with it, I guess it’s the flop house for them..
hello, may I know what floppy drive model you have installed?
Mine is the factory drive, don't know what the model # is offhand
I'm afraid the player is not the factory one (mitsumi d357) which you can recognize from the front panel with the central floppy eject button. Unfortunately, the 900 compared to the 950 has a higher non-standard housing and a common reader would leave a hole. For these I needed this precious information, if I could help me I would be happy. Thank you
You can try a diskette emulator
Meh, I'll wait until the floppy croaks completely. I still use floppy + Zip disks w/ my ESI-32 (SCSI).
@@gstormelectro yes I remember the zip drive