Hi,
 On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Paul Anderson <useddec at gmail.com> wrote:
  I have a quantity of these which probably have
the imfamous sticky
 rubber bumper. If anyone wishes to mank an offer, please contact me
 off list. 
 Doesn't one need a clean room to fix that problem? 
It involves opening the HDA. That should eb done in a clean room, but
people have reported you cna do it in a normal workshop with a bit of
care. My guess is that you don't need a clean room to do it if you wnat
the drive to work for long enough to get the data off it, but I'd not
want to use such a repaired drive very much,
-tony