Most my drives, im sure with some love and effort will come alive. A few though need belts. Any idea were to get Teac/Tandon 360kb drive belts? Originals are translucent orange and extremely flat. I've tried the rubber band trick but no go. 3 of these drives here, 2 need belts, 3rd slips time to time but still works.
As for fixing my drives, I might just try that tomorrow night before work! I've adjusted a few before, but only had luck a few times, but I never tried using imagedisk. Hrm.... I always just put in a known disc, started a copy, and hit retry after every head adjustment till it read my data. You can actually listen to the head and know when its close, if you listen close enough you almost hear a faint kinda of music. But imagedisk seems mucho mucho easier!!! Shame I have work in an hour, otherwise I be playing with them right now! >.<. At least I get a ton of free time to browse the web! (working as a security guard , finding an admin job by me is tough atm, but hey it pays the bills :D )
Ok when you adjust the heads, do you just leave them barely loose and tap the head gently with a screwdriver or??? Thats how I was doing it before. Details be wonderful! :D
Maybe we can start a section in the wiki? I am willing to contribute with the drives I repair/realign.