Hot glue is a great choice for that drive eject button. If it has to be replaced in future, a little IPA (91% works) will loosen the glue for removal. That print from PCBWay is really precise. I thought when I first saw it that it might be a resin print. Screw size for 3.5 inch floppy drives is M3 x 0.5 mm pitch. These are available in a variety of lengths that should cover your needs. This project has shaped up nicely. I hope it does very well for you.
Undoubtedly one of the most attractive projects of the channel. 👌 I hope to be able to set up my own one in the near future. 🙏 Thanks for your didactic work. 👍 Lykke til og god helse! 👋
Very nice build ! One nice aspect of the PC-Drive Adaptor for the 1581 repica boards is that the pcb "twists" the floppy drive connector 180 degrees around so you don´t have to twist the 34 pin ribbon cable . This way, you can use a rather short cable to hook up an unmodded PC diskette drive. I have no idea why Commodore chose to mount the connector "the wrong way" around. The vast majority of more recent drives have pin 1 exactly on the opposite side of their counterpart on the board...
Wow, this part was a worldround journey of its own. So many things encountered and well explained. I am still a bit confused how a 1581 drive has similarities to an Amiga drive. I thought data were stored much different. I must dig into that. So your videos give us all much inspiration into retro projects.
Gotta have the "Arctic Retro" badge. Can't leave that out. I'd go as far as to modify the model to allow a cut in for the badge to land. Go with your prints. Doing otherwise is cheating. It's all about the home brew. Loved this project. This is Arctic Retro at its best.
Nice build, congratulations. I guess the C5 flaw is pretty critical concerning the reliability of the drive so ablot of people will run into problems when building this without the additional wire. I would Put the Arctic retro Sticker on the underside of the drive Just where the commodore model Plate would ist onnthe original drive..
Yeah, would love to see a two drive C 128 running GEOS or maybe ConTIki OS and surfing the web via a NIC for the Commodore. But mainly see the utility of dual drives.
@@Arcticretro That is very reasonable as a total price, but i checked out some electronics parts from DIY Chris and i allready past the 200 euro easy for parts alone. not speaking of case and drive yet. Retro chips get really expensive. But you did an awesome job and got sponsoring. Most of us do not have that luxury.
I liked both prints. They gray was close to the original color. Noel's Retro Lab ordered 3D prints from PCBWay, of a model of the ZX81 case.. It looked perfect. He also don't know how they processed the prints. Maybe it was powder 3d print ? I don't know. But according to them, PLA, they use FDM. So then it is possibly all in the post processing.
If you have a usb floppy drive, could you try plugging it into that pi1541? It's supposed to have experimental usb support, so it would be interesting to see how functional it could be versus building a 1581. On the subject of programs, I find Star Commander under dosbox to be really useful for copying prg files out of t64 and d64 files. Very useful if you want to make a new disk or cartridge file with all of the PRGs inside of it
I love the blue led if I had that it would spray painted black case it would be cool as hell
Cool :)
On top of the content itself, the beautiful views around where you live are always a plus!
Definitely!
Hot glue is a great choice for that drive eject button. If it has to be replaced in future, a little IPA (91% works) will loosen the glue for removal.
That print from PCBWay is really precise. I thought when I first saw it that it might be a resin print.
Screw size for 3.5 inch floppy drives is M3 x 0.5 mm pitch. These are available in a variety of lengths that should cover your needs.
This project has shaped up nicely. I hope it does very well for you.
Thanks for the info!
Great video as always Tommy, I think the 3D printed case you printed is a better colour match to the original unit. Keep up the great videos. cheers
Undoubtedly one of the most attractive projects of the channel. 👌
I hope to be able to set up my own one in the near future. 🙏
Thanks for your didactic work. 👍
Lykke til og god helse! 👋
Thank you so much (Tusen takk)
Very nice build ! One nice aspect of the PC-Drive Adaptor for the 1581 repica boards is that the pcb "twists" the floppy drive connector 180 degrees around so you don´t have to twist the 34 pin ribbon cable . This way, you can use a rather short cable to hook up an unmodded PC diskette drive. I have no idea why Commodore chose to mount the connector "the wrong way" around. The vast majority of more recent drives have pin 1 exactly on the opposite side of their counterpart on the board...
Thank you :)
Wow, this part was a worldround journey of its own. So many things encountered and well explained. I am still a bit confused how a 1581 drive has similarities to an Amiga drive. I thought data were stored much different. I must dig into that. So your videos give us all much inspiration into retro projects.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video! You've inspired me to dig out the parts I have and order the ones I still need.
Great to hear!
Gotta have the "Arctic Retro" badge. Can't leave that out. I'd go as far as to modify the model to allow a cut in for the badge to land. Go with your prints. Doing otherwise is cheating. It's all about the home brew. Loved this project. This is Arctic Retro at its best.
Thank you so much :)
Keep the case you made yourself, i think it looks better.
Will do!
It looks great in grey. I wished for this drive back in the days when making demos. To easy transfer files onto the c64
Looks beautiful! I would use the greyish one. Great video series of building that! Thank you, have a great day!
Thank you! You too!
Nice build, congratulations. I guess the C5 flaw is pretty critical concerning the reliability of the drive so ablot of people will run into problems when building this without the additional wire. I would Put the Arctic retro Sticker on the underside of the drive Just where the commodore model Plate would ist onnthe original drive..
Good point!
Yeah, would love to see a two drive C 128 running GEOS or maybe ConTIki OS and surfing the web via a NIC for the Commodore. But mainly see the utility of dual drives.
I like these builds, but i wonder what the total price will be when you are finished. Anyway congratulations with the build.
Not sure yet, but quite expensive to be fair. At least 200 EUR
@@Arcticretro That is very reasonable as a total price, but i checked out some electronics parts from DIY Chris and i allready past the 200 euro easy for parts alone. not speaking of case and drive yet. Retro chips get really expensive. But you did an awesome job and got sponsoring. Most of us do not have that luxury.
Awesome job!
Thank you! Cheers!
I liked both prints. They gray was close to the original color. Noel's Retro Lab ordered 3D prints from PCBWay, of a model of the ZX81 case.. It looked perfect. He also don't know how they processed the prints. Maybe it was powder 3d print ? I don't know. But according to them, PLA, they use FDM. So then it is possibly all in the post processing.
Thanks! Yes, no idea how they do it.
If you have a usb floppy drive, could you try plugging it into that pi1541? It's supposed to have experimental usb support, so it would be interesting to see how functional it could be versus building a 1581. On the subject of programs, I find Star Commander under dosbox to be really useful for copying prg files out of t64 and d64 files. Very useful if you want to make a new disk or cartridge file with all of the PRGs inside of it
Never tried. Thank you for the info!
Great series Tommy. Still on my wish list to build this. What options did you choose from PCBWay for the print as regards materials etc.
Regular white PLA. No additions or anything
Came out great 👍
What’s the size and brand name of 3-D printer works to print commodore stuff. So I can look into it if you have a picture or a video of your printer.
My printer is 25×21×21 cm. But they come in different sizes.
Great video my love 😘😘
🤩
i wonder what is their maximum dimention on 3d print?
Depends on the printer size. For PCBWay I don't know
😁 "promo sm"
Meaning ?