The Commodore 1541 floppy drive is a real workhorse, that was used by millions of C64 users. It came with drive mechanisms from different vendors. The Newtronics/Mitsumi drive assembly has the annoying fault to have their drive heads fail due to some wires going open inside of the read/write head. This is so far not economically repairable. However a clever user by the nickname of Ruuudi on German Forum64 has designed a little bodge PCB to make the half of the head that is still okay to all the work and thus revive an otherwise dead drive.

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Original thread on Forum64: https://www.forum64.de/index.php?thread/97685-reine-kopfsache-1541-ii-mitsumi-d500-kopfdefekt/&postID=2120659#post2120659 Thread about bodge: https://www.forum64.de/index.php?thread/146326-auferstehung-oder-2-lebens-kopf-hälfte-für-mitsumi-d500-knebel-1541/