Amstrad cpc 6128 | Computer restoration and disk drive repair

[@starsk13]

Thanks for the video. I am planning to do the same fix on a 6128 I found in the street, in south of France… 25 years ago :)

[@8bitsinthebasement]

CPC's are tough systems, best of luck with your repair / restoration.

[@nickolasgaspar9660]

Another repair I watched suggested to change specific capacitors. Caps getting dry may affect the way mechanical parts behave. I will have a go with the caps and if the "no reading" error persists I will apply your empirical methods. Thanks for sharing all those tips.

[@8bitsinthebasement]

Changing caps is never a bad idea in almost 40 year old electronics, best of luck with your repair.

[@007JHS]

The disc drives had a habit of catching or hanging from within a few months of use... I administered a suite of these as teacher of IT in a school in S. Aust... I became quite deft in unscrewing the case, opening it and giving a quick flick on the motor spindle with a small screwdriver... back in operation, no loss of children's work.

[@8bitsinthebasement]

The 3 inch disc drives were (and in many cases, are still) a little temperamental. The thing that amazes me about them and these compuers in general is how it is possible to repair them in a lot of cases without the need for special tools or test devices. I imagine the 6128 would have been a great computer for kids to have learned with at school. Though you may have thought otherwise given you were the one who had to keep the drives ticking over ;) Thanks for watching 007JHS.

[@viditibi]

thanks for the tips to repair the disk drive, about the keys did you bought the key or a complete computer to use their keys?

[@8bitsinthebasement]

I found a guy on Ebay who was selling loose Amstrad CPC keys (they had a system that they had stripped for parts and were selling them). I bought two keys from them as I needed one key and two springs.