18 Jun
1998
18 Jun
'98
6:32 p.m.
On Jun 18, 18:29, Tony Duell wrote:
No it doesn't! 99% of all the tapes out there fail after a couple of
years (at most) leaving a somewhat sticky residue behind. 5.25" (and 8")
floppies were rarely (if ever) assembled using adhesives - a thermal
welding process appears to be what was done.
> Joe
You could try tetrahydofuran, as found in Vinyl Weld adhesive. Noxious
stuff, but it works on a lot of "difficult" plastics and you only need a
very small amount. I mostly use it for making custom ribbon cables.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
> >holes and putting the disk back in the
jacket. Problem is resealing
the
edge of the jacket which I've opened.
Tape works well!