PS1 spindle hub...

There was a time where I was hitting bootsales weekly a few years back. reguarly bought them for £1 with the wires just for reselling.

 

The metal spindle you have is in fact a replacement.
I was at my friends house, I was asking about his import and debug systems.
He told me none of his systems had a metal spindle.
All the early drives are KSM-440AAM and KSM-440ACM and have the ceramic spindle.

 

Yeah mine was the same as all the other playstation spindles.

-Disjaukifa

 

OK, thanks for that. But is breakage of the tabs on the original hub really an inevitable process? Almost every PlayStation that I have come across has a broken one.

 

I come across a lot of broken hubs. I think most of them are do to the Swap Trick or taking out the disc before it stops spinning.

I got a SCPH-1001 with a metal spindle.
Came in a lot of 33 broken PSX systems.
Will take pictures to show you what it looks like.

 

OK, I'm looking forward to seeing it. Thanks.

 

I didn't bother to clean it, I will be replacing the whole drive assembly.

 

That's exactly the one that I have! I wonder where these spindles were sourced from...

 

I took the spindle to my local supplier. He will try to see if they still make them and give me a quote.

Edit: A little update in my ebay case with the PSone PAL I won. Seller never shipped and had to open a case with ebay, which I won within 24 hours. It just sucks cause I really wanted to play Hellnight

 

Fool... if he didn't want that low, then he should have started the bidding at a higher price.

What's the best way to remove the spindle? Without breaking it (found one in perfect condition again, that I want to save)...

 

The ceramic ones are very fragile. You will need to take the Laser Assembly apart and remove the motor. Then use a butter knife to push the spindle very gently and slowly.

 

I managed it in the end, and now have an SCPH-1002 with a fresh motor and spindle. Any updates on the weird looking spindle?

 

My local supplier found them, he has e-mail the company three times but no response yet.
I would love to get the metal ones.

Finally got them

 

sorry for the topic bumping.
But do youstilk have them?
I need two of them, hope you can give me your source, or sell me 2.