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

Alexander Jacocks jjacocks at gmail.com
Thu Aug 13 18:52:51 EDT 2020


Unfortunately, I have a bunch of drives that came to me dirty. So, cleaning
disks is good, but doesn't directly address the need.

Thanks!
- Alex

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 3:49 PM Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> I’ve rescued disks with water that had coffee spilled on them.
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> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 2:34 PM Chris Fala <chrisjpf33 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I just flush them under running water. ;-) (Not really, but I actually
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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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