Apple Macintosh 800K Floppy Drive - Eject Gear

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### What's going on here?\r\nThis STL and source code are for the Macintosh floppy drive eject gear replacement. You might need this if your drive no longer ejects — the original gears were made out of a special material that deteriorates and crumbles over time.\r\n\r\n### It's absolutely free to download, but you can buy prints too!\r\nIf you'd rather buy printed parts, I recommend checking out my Shapeways listing. You can get as many as 12 gears for just $8.00. The price on Shapeways is the cost of manufacturing plus a $0.50 markup... so you can basically consider it a fifty-cent tip every time you buy a variant from Shapeways!\r\n\r\nIf you appreciate this project, please show your support by sharing my work and leaving feedback to further improve the design.\r\n\r\n### Caution Required\r\nWhile I've done a lot of testing with my own high resolution 3D printer, please consider the design "beta" until I can receive feedback. In my testing, the gear easily slips onto the shaft and mates with the drive gear neatly.\r\n\r\n*FDM*: Print tests were performed by the 68MKLA user Torbar. Based on the results, printing at 0.20mm resolution is not sufficient for a working gear. I was able to produce working prototypes on my Anycubic Photon at 0.10mm resolution.