[vcf-midatlantic] Needed 5-1/4” Cleaning Floppy

[Dean Notarnicola]

I’ve rescued disks with water that had coffee spilled on them.

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 2:34 PM Chris Fala <chrisjpf33 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just flush them under running water. ;-) (Not really, but I actually did
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> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 5:59 PM Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic <
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>> Consider this to use on suspect floppies before they foul your drive
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>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/303620862566
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>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 5:55 PM Jeff Salzman via vcf-midatlantic <
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>> > If you're coming to the workshop this weekend, I'll have my cleaning
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