Shipping floppy drives - Disk in or out?

Hi You should ship with the door open, if you can't find a cardboard insert. Do not use a disk or close the latch. Many of the older ones, especially the single sided, have head load solenoids( 5.25 and 8 inch ). These are vary unlikely to close the heads. 3.5 in. often don't have a head load solenoid and should have the door open. If there is a chance the door could accidentally be closed during shipping, put some tape on it to hold it. The reason I say this is that even with the piece of felt, there is often debris from disk that will transfer onto the head. Corrosion also loves to get started between such surfaces where there is already bits of oxide. Any condensation on an open surface evaporates relatively quickly but it tends to wick into the felt and last a long time. Heads are tough but I wouldn't give chemistry a chance to its work. Dwight _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=P…