Well, not really, but it's close. I've had this broken 360 for about 2 years now, it was red ringed and the disc drive wouldn't open 90% of the time, needless to say it was fucked. Anyway, about 2-3 months ago I decided that the thing was worthless to me in its current state, so I figured I'd try to fix it. I thought the towel trick was bullshit, but it actually got rid of the red rings.
However, there was still the problem of the disc drive being completely fucked, so me and my dad got to ripping console apart to see if we could see what was wrong with the drive. We ended up WD40ing the shit out of all the gears inside the thing after we couldn't find any physical obstruction. Now the thing actually opened when the button was pressed, but we must have screwed something else up, because all sorts of weird shit was happening with the drive. It would stop half way closed, it would refuse to close, it would open when the console was being turned off.
Long story short, I figured the console was ruined, albeit in a different way, though it was busted beforehand so I figured I came out no worse than I started. Anywaaaaaaaaaay, that was 2-3 months ago, and just about 30 minutes ago I saw someone post a thread about replacing the 360 disc drive, so I started reading into that, and I went to go check out which drive the broken 360 had, and lo and behold, THE FUCKING THING WORKED PERFECTLY. I've got no idea how this happened. Nobody has touched the thing since we opened it up a couple months ago. The only thing I can think is that we put way too much lube on the gears, or screwed something else up, and after all this time it just dried up or reset it's position. All I know is right now the thing runs perfectly. I need to pawn this thing off to gamestop immediately.
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