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Cleaning the combo drive (DVD reader + CD burner) of G4 Powerbook Titanium (light version)

As usual, I cannot be responsible for any damage to your machines when you will experiment the following tutorial.

The drive reject everything: music CD, data CD or DVD.

1)

Shutdown the Powerbook, remove the battery (blue arrow) and the 8 torx screws (yellow arrows).

2)

As the "operation" had to be done in an urgency: I just unplug the drive connector (yellow arrow) and raise up the drive.

Caution: the drive is clamped in the chassis through rubber pins (blue arrows).

3)

The drive partially removed: it just stay hold to the chassis by the ground cable: gently remove it.

Right above: the 8 torx screws. Right to the G4: my multi-blades screwdriver.

4)

Yellow arrows: two cruciform screws to be removed to extract the combo drive from its craddle.

5)

On the other side, the same screws.

6)

Now opening the drive:

1. Remove the 4 screws (yellow arrows)
2. Remove the facade cache (blue arrow).

7)

Once the screws removed, raise the cover from the side with the 3 screws (see the picture at point 6 just above) and then smoothly detach the cover by pushing it in the direction pointed by the blue arrow.

8)

Push to the top the guide (blue arrow) and, again, 4 screws to extract the guide's cache (yellow arrows).

9)

The ribbon straights up, rubbing against the optical head.

10)

I clean the lens with isopropylic alcohol (yellow arrow) and do the same for the two axes (blue arrows).

Then, I put some sewing machine oil on the cleaned axes.

The white arrow points to the ribbon I just stick onto the chassis with some double-faced tape.

And as usual: same instructions in reverser ordre to rebuilt the machine.

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