Sony Vaio PCGA-FD5 Floppy Drive

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Sony Vaio PCGA-FD5 Floppy Drive

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This is an external floppy drive that comes with the laptop Sony Vaio PCG-505 series.
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The laptop was working correctly but when I connected the floppy drive and put a floppy disk it wouldn't read it.
Time to open it and see what's going on inside. The drive has two screws under the rubber feet:
Sony Vaio PCGA-FD5 Floppy Drive_Screws.png

After that I could take the metal cover of the drive:
Sony Vaio PCGA-FD5 Floppy Drive_Metal-Cover.png
Sony Vaio PCGA-FD5 Floppy Drive_Metal-Cover2.png

And I was able to clearly see the issue: the rubber belt was broken to pieces.
Sony Vaio PCGA-FD5 Floppy Drive_Rubber_Belt.png
Sony Vaio PCGA-FD5 Floppy Drive_Rubber_Belt2.png

Since I didn't have a proper replacement, I designed and 3D printed one with flexible filament. I know flexible filament doesn't have the same properties as rubber. But I think it'll work well enough, at least to see if the drive actually works.
Sony Vaio PCGA-FD5 Floppy Drive_3D_Printed_Belt.png
Sony Vaio PCGA-FD5 Floppy Drive_3D_Printed_Belt2.png

Now I put it all back together and connected it to the laptop and it was reading floppy disks properly :D
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