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iMac slot-loading optical drive take apart guide?
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Does anyone have a service manual or a take apart guide for the slot-loading iMac G3's optical drives? I imagine the guides would pretty much mirror those for any of the slot-loading ones being used in the PowerBook and iBook computers too so I'm sure it'd be useful for those people as well. I just need to know how to properly diassemble and reassemble my iMac's 6x DVD-ROM slot-loading drive and have had no luck finding anything of any help on the internet yet and am getting very frustrated. Pictures in the guide would obviously be valued greatly! Thanks! :-D
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Do you mean for extracting the drive from the iMac, or for actually disassembling the drive?
The former are easy to find, but a bright person could do it with no help.
The latter is never done -- drives are always replaced as a complete unit. The only reason I've ever had to disassemble one was to extract a business card CD someone put in, and that just takes a few screws (tiny ones, though -- get the proper ones).
tooki
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Originally posted by tooki:
Do you mean for extracting the drive from the iMac, or for actually disassembling the drive?
The former are easy to find, but a bright person could do it with no help.
The latter is never done -- drives are always replaced as a complete unit. The only reason I've ever had to disassemble one was to extract a business card CD someone put in, and that just takes a few screws (tiny ones, though -- get the proper ones).
tooki
Thought it was an all-in-one optical reader, did they?
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No, I meant actually diassembling the optical drive itself. I don't see why it's never done because obviously it's much easier to clean the dust and stuff inside of them out if you take it apart. And, should something mechanical ever go wrong (like I suspect has with my drive), you would need to know how to take it apart and reassemble it properly. I know most of the time these kinds of drives are just simply replaced if something goes wrong but still, I'd like to see if I can fix it before I just trash it out of frustration. Since there's no vaccuum parts or anything to the optical drives, there's really no danger in taking them apart so long as you can remember EXACTLY how you took it apart so that reassembly is just basically that procedure in reverse. So, anyone wanna give this a shot or fill me in on how this is theoretically supposed to be done?
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