ThingiverseAmiga 4000 High Density Floppy Drive Face Plate and Button
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I bought an Amiga 4000 desktop last year which had a few nasty issues, including massive amounts of corrosion, broken traces, etc. In fact, the running count of parts I've replaced currently stands at 19 capacitors, 5 SIMM slots, one Ricoh real time clock chip, one battery, one F245 logic chip, and I just found a cracked solder joint on the Super Buster Rev 11 chip (This is as of March 2018...the list may get longer in the future). The -least- of my problems when I bought this A4000 was the missing floppy face plate and button on the high-density floppy drive.
I had mistakenly believed that I could swap in the face plate from a dead FG-357 floppy drive, which is PC-compatible and much easier to acquire. I found a nice looking one with dead electronics and ordered it for cheap. When it arrived, I immediately realized that the Amiga version of the high density drive (F-357 A) is about 50 percent taller than the FG-357. The Amiga high density version of the drive commands STUPIDLY high