On 02/05/2016 11:46 PM, Dan K wrote:
  Are there any good alternative solutions I can do to
replace it? I'm
 sure I don't want the plastic touching the disk media.
 
Probably the pressure pad in an audio cassette is about the
same material.  Depending on how large a diameter the floppy
drive's pad was, one from a cassette might not be big enough.
Jon