1541 Disk Drive Archives

TheRetroChannel – Two Commodore 1541 Disk Drive Repairs

][avok - 04/04/2020 0

In this episode TheRetroChannel gives repairing two Commodore 1541 disk drives try. Tools used include the 1541 Diagnostic cartridge along with trouble shooting tips...

Adrian Black Fixes A Commodore 1541 Drive

][avok - 02/08/2020 0

Adrian Black is working on a dead 1541 disk drive. This particular drive is a short board 1541 with an Alps Mechanism.

Commodore 1540/1541 Long Board (long!) repair.

][avok - 01/16/2020 0

In this video update iz8dwf is repairing a Commodore VIC-1540/1541 long PCB. "Faults found are: one zener diode broken (maybe overheated?), one interrupted small signal...