My 1571 disk drive head is stuck...

[Sega dude]

This is a continuation from this thread. >>> http://www.commodore128.org/index.php?topic=3489.new;topicseen#new
I found out the head is stuck. I took off the cover and watched the head move and it's stuck.
Watch the video here. >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lyC6hSwjE0 It there anyway to fix this? I really hope so cuz my mom is gonna make me get rid of my C=128...shes not gonna pay for a new drive...

[gsteemso]

If you mean the little sled thingy that carries the head back and forth is jammed on its rails, be not alarmed, the same thing happened to mine. All I had to do was wait for it to start trying to move and give it a careful but firm push in the right direction. It came unstuck with a /crack/ noise. Nothing broke, it's just it had fused slightly to the rails. It has worked perfectly ever since.

[Blacklord]

I really hope so cuz my mom is gonna make me get rid of my C=128...shes not gonna pay for a new drive...

Sorry - but that quote coulda come straight out of the 80's 

[LokalHorst]

There's maybe a piece of plastic or a loose screw as obstacle in the way of the head-move-mechanism. You can move the head-assembly carefully, when the drive is powered off by using the step-motor wheel as you would tune-in a radio station, without a disk in the drive, but the drive door closed.
A Tip for testing: use a formatted but non-important disk instead of your original program disk.

[Sega dude]

There's maybe a piece of plastic or a loose screw as obstacle in the way of the head-move-mechanism. You can move the head-assembly carefully, when the drive is powered off by using the step-motor wheel as you would tune-in a radio station, without a disk in the drive, but the drive door closed.
A Tip for testing: use a formatted but non-important disk instead of your original program disk.

It worked!! Thank you LokalHorst! I don't get it tho. It move freely. It didn't get stuck when I moved it. But it works now! GEOS boots and my Challenger Pack diskette works. (The diskette that didn't work) But it still seems to have trouble moving all the way forward. I wonder why.