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