Date   : Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:44:37 -0000
From   : mark@... (Mark Usher)
Subject: Re-using floppies

We used to do this all the time at school - although not the most elegant of
solutions.
The plastic weld along the top would be gently cut open with a very sharp
blade. This enabled you to take out the disc, and place to one side. Using
another disc reversed as a template, the hole position would be marked out
along with the write protect notch. Then again, using a very sharp blade the
notch and hole would be cut out. Place the disc back in and attempt to make
the plastic weld again with glue, cutting off any bits sticking out :D

I think I still have one or two of them around somewhere.

-Mark


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bbc-micro-bounces+mark=bbcdocs.com@...
> [mailto:bbc-micro-bounces+mark=bbcdocs.com@...] On
> Behalf Of Anders Carlsson
> Sent: 24 March 2010 08:41
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] 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
> 
> 
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