I struggled to revive the disk drives on the Franklin Ace 1200

#appleIIclone #franklinace #keytronic This Franklin 1200 powers up again, but now the keyboard is completely dead and both disk drives are acting up. Let’s fix them! Part 1: Part 2: This part! Part 3: Coming soon 0:00 Intro 0:42 Keyboard repair (foam and foil, Kentronic) 6:04 Repairing two disk drives 42:32 Running some diagnostics on the Franklin Ace 1200 53:38 Outro --- Video Links TexElec foam and foil pads for Keytronics keyboards: Shugart SA-400 (and SA-390) disk drive: Service Drol (Game, wikipedia) Adrian’s Digital Basement Merch store: Adrian’s Digital Basement ][ (Second Channel) Support the channel on Patreon: -- Tools Deoxit D5: O-Ring Pick Set: (I use these to lift chips off boards) Elenco Electronics LP-560 Logic Probe: Hakko FR301 Desoldering Iron: Rigol DS1054Z Four Channel Oscilloscope: Head Worn Magnifying Goggles / Dual Lens Flip-In Head Magnifier: TL866II Plus Chip Tester and EPROM programmer: (The MiniPro) TS100 Soldering Iron: EEVBlog 121GW Multimeter: DSLogic Basic Logic Analyzer: Magnetic Screw Holder: Universal ZIP sockets: (clones, used on my ZIF-64 test machine) RetroTink 2X Upconverter: (to hook up something like a C64 to HDMI) Plato (Clone) Side Cutters: (order five) Heat Sinks: Little squeezy bottles: (available elsewhere too) --- Links My GitHub repository: Commodore Computer Club / Vancouver, WA – Portland, OR – PDX Commodore Users Group --- Instructional videos My video on damage-free chip removal: --- Music Intro music and other tracks by: Nathan Divino @itsnathandivino