6 Apr
2016
6 Apr
'16
7:56 p.m.
On 04/06/2016 08:00 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
That is usually the pressure pad has gotten some wipe-off
On Apr 6,
2016, at 5:18 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Well, I don't know about the consensus, but in my experience, most
floppies go bad from wear and/or breakdown in the binder.
I have no experience
with this issue in floppies. But I have a distressingly large quantity of audio cassettes
that have gone bad over 10 or 20 years. It wasn't wear; they weren't played
regularly. Instead, something bad happened with the structure of the coating so that they
would squeak loudly when played, both over the playback and physically (noisy passage over
the head). The problem is clearly incompetent chemical engineering, because it showed up
only in one brand, which as a result is now on my "never again" list for any of
its products.
from the tape, and becomes a sticky, instead of
slippery,
material. If you can get to it, you can sometimes scrape
the sticky material off with a knife to produce a better
surface. On a (one sided) floppy drive, the pressure pad is
part of the drive, not the media.
Jon
Jon