Fairlight-CMI

George,

congrats on the CMI IIX.

What has happened is that the screw that holds the white disc in place has 
come loose. It needs to be tighten.

I had to do it to mine as it was just a little too loose for the drive to 
grab the disc properly to rotate it.

It seems that your drives disc(s) has come loose. Just hope that the screw 
is still in place and not rattleing around inside the CMI causing a 
shortcircuit. I would not power up the CMI until you have removed the 
drive(s) and inspected it.

Good luck with the service.

WT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "trickstar303" <trickstar303@yahoo.com>
To: <Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 1:22 AM
Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Fairlight-Rookie here, Floppy disk won't slide in 
all the way...


Hello,

Just wanted to briefly introduce myself.  I'm a new proud CMI IIx owner. :-) 
I just had a moment to set it up for the first time since I picked it up 
last Saturday and I already encountered the first problem:

The floppy disks won't go in all the way, they insert about half way or so 
and then something blocks them. When I peeked inside it seems that those 
white round plasticky things are in the way or something. The seller had 
mentioned that he had to oil the drives in the past. Could it be that those 
things are supposed to snap back and aren't? Is there a trick and/or a way 
to fix that? They were working just fine at the sellers house when he 
demo'ed it. But he had the mainframe laying sideways on the woodrails (the 
proper way I take it). When I brought it to my studio I had to set it 
upright like a pc-tower due to lack of space. Is it ok to setup a CMI like 
that and could that affect the floppies?

Thanks.
George