Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!garcon!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!sac90286 From: sac90286@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kubla Khan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 3.5" Disk "Notcher" wanted Summary: I hadn't thought of that... Message-ID: <1812@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 21 Aug 89 14:06:42 GMT References: <111700136@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <1810@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> <800@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> Sender: news@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu Reply-To: kubla@uiuc.edu (Kubla Khan) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 29 In article <800@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> gordon@eecea.UUCP (Dwight Gordon) writes: >> >> Take your ... drill ..., and drill yourself a nice clean hole. >> >>Little bits of plastic would make my floppies unhappy. >> >Mine Too! Additionally, the disks that I purchase are such that the top >and bottom pieces of plastic do not meet at the point of the hole, thereby >allowing dust and dirt to enter the area around the media if the plastic >is not sealed around the hole! Thanks, guys, for pointing this out - I hadn't thought of that. Of course, this latter problem can occur with the use of the hole punchers, as well... Maybe there's a puncher model which includes a small hot plastic injector to squirt a small amount of molten goo into the newly punched hole to seal it immediately after punching...? >The smell of melting plastic (not burning, >as I have a low-wattage soldering iron) is not my favorite, but it not >only makes the hole, but seals the hole's edges - preventing foreign >particles from entering the area around the media. And to top it off, your method is probably the cheapest (especially if you go to Radio Shaft and buy their $3.49 iron to use specifically for the purpose). Scott Coleman kubla@uiuc.edu