Date   : Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:40:58 +0100
From   : anders.carlsson@... (Anders Carlsson)
Subject: Re-using floppies

David Harper wrote:

> There was only one hole in the disc, but two in the jacket

Again, if anyone has a clever idea how to safely punch that second hole in 
the jacket, I'm mildly interested. With so many BBC users on the list, 
surely some of you stuck with single sided floppy drives and had to come up 
with ways to use the back side of your expensive DSDD floppy disks? The 
write enable notch is much easier to cut your own and for which there exists 
several custom made notchers.

I suppose one could work from inside and cut an opening, but it might 
destabilize the disk too much. In theory one can also slit open the jacket, 
carefully pull out the magnetic media and then go ahead with more thorough 
tools to make another opening in the jacket. Finally you put the magnetic 
disk back and seal the edge with tape but... well, it seems messy.

Best regards

-- 
Anders Carlsson