https://peertube.v1.root42.de/videos/watch/e6ae43d5-bbf8-44fd-a001-e3696d9090a8 The Commodore 1541 floppy drive is a real workhorse, that was used by millions of C64 users. It came with drive mechanisms from different vendors. The Newtronics/Mitsumi drive assembly has the annoying fault to have their drive heads fail due to some wires going open inside of the read/write head. This is so far not economically repairable. However a clever user by the nickname of Ruuudi on German Forum64 has designed a little bodge PCB to make the half of the head that is still okay to all the work and thus revive an otherwise dead drive. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/root42 Support me on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/root42 Support me on PayPal: https://paypal.me/ArneSchmitz Support me on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPjFa_UZBUDzdJTIEdyGjIQ/join Music: A Little Wonder by Spino2006 Original thread on Forum64: https://www.forum64.de/index.php?thread/97685-reine-kopfsache-1541-ii-mitsumi-d500-kopfdefekt/&postID=2120659#post2120659 Thread about bodge: https://www.forum64.de/index.php?thread/146326-auferstehung-oder-2-lebens-kopf-hälfte-für-mitsumi-d500-knebel-1541/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:24:13 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.v1.root42.de https://peertube.v1.root42.de/lazy-static/avatars/0a35d55b-bc46-4c59-b95d-8410012a3183.jpg https://peertube.v1.root42.de/videos/watch/e6ae43d5-bbf8-44fd-a001-e3696d9090a8 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.v1.root42.de/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.