On 07/12/2018 09:05 PM, David C. Jenner via cctech wrote:
> Would Chuck's temperature and Al's oven be appropriate for old magtapes,
> too?
My "cooker" is home-built and heavily insulated. It has a 75W
incandescent for heat and a low-speed fan for circulation. I use a PID
controller to keep the
Would Chuck's temperature and Al's oven be appropriate for old magtapes,
too?
On 7/11/18 9:10 AM, Al Kossow via cctech wrote:
On 7/11/18 8:57 AM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
Be wary though, domestic ovens apparently fluctuate wildly.
Use a food dehydrator
this is the unit I use for QIC
On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 at 20:05, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Don't use pumice to clean off the pumas. (they won't like it)
> Stick with well whale oil.
Also great for rosewood, I hear.
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On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, Al Kossow wrote:
On 7/11/18 2:21 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
I use Screen 99 for cleaning floppies
MSDS
https://store.comet.bg/download-file.php?id=16956
first ingredient listed; isopropyl alcohol
Of course, somehow you need some "magic" in the stuff ;-)
But a
I'm the victim of the spell checker. Thanks for the fix.
Dwight
From: cctalk on behalf of Fred Cisin via cctalk
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 11:05:43 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: 8 inch floppies, decaying
On We
On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, dwight via cctalk wrote:
Next is the smooth orange oil hand cleaner. ( not the stuff with pumas
). Really cleans things great and good for killing ants. Again, rinse
maybe it might need a little detergent and then rinse.
Don't use pumice to clean off the pumas. (they won'
ral I'd go with Chuck's advice. He has done more work with disk and
tapes than anyone here else except possibly Al.
Dwight
From: cctalk on behalf of Al Kossow via cctalk
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 9:10:14 AM
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Subject: Re:
27;d go with Chuck's advice. He has done more work with disk and
tapes than anyone here else except possibly Al.
Dwight
From: cctalk on behalf of Al Kossow via cctalk
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 9:10:14 AM
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: 8 inch
On 7/11/18 8:57 AM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
> Be wary though, domestic ovens apparently fluctuate wildly.
Use a food dehydrator
this is the unit I use for QIC tapes (weston 10 tray stainless steel dehydrator
model 74-1001-2)
https://www.ebay.com/itm//113143490361
but I do them a coupl
Be wary though, domestic ovens apparently fluctuate wildly. I did have success
with some TK50s in our fan oven set at 40C
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From: Chuck Guzis via cctalk
Sent: 11 July 2018 16:31
To: Adrian Graham via cctalk
Subject: Re: 8 inch floppies, decaying
On 07/11/2018 02:53
On 7/11/18 8:20 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>
>
> On 7/11/18 2:21 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
>
>> I use Screen 99 for cleaning floppies
>
> MSDS
>
> https://store.comet.bg/download-file.php?id=16956
>
> first ingredient listed; isopropyl alcohol
>
>
Since I haven't menti
On 07/11/2018 02:53 AM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote:
> What temperature oven?
58C +/- 0.5C
--Chuck
On 7/11/18 2:21 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
> I use Screen 99 for cleaning floppies
MSDS
https://store.comet.bg/download-file.php?id=16956
first ingredient listed; isopropyl alcohol
> On 11 Jul 2018, at 03:15, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> No, no, no! Do not use isopropanol to clean floppies--you'll wind up
> with a soft oxide coating and a brown rag. Were these mine, I'd first
> remove them from their jackets and then bake them and then clean them
> with distilled
> On 11 Jul 2018, at 09:33, Terry Stewart via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Just my experience, I once did a trial where I took two identical 5,25
> inch disks of the same batch from the same manufacturer. These were clean
> disks which both formatted and verified just fine, but I wanted to see if
> I
On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, dwight wrote:
I've had the goo from the adhesive of 5.25 inch 360k disk come through
the nice liner and make gobs on the disk. I tried several thing but
found that isopropanol worked without removing any of the magnetic
material ( maybe s tiny amount that was likely loose a
Just my experience, I once did a trial where I took two identical 5,25
inch disks of the same batch from the same manufacturer. These were clean
disks which both formatted and verified just fine, but I wanted to see if
IPA did indeed damage the disk.
One I swabbed one with 75% IPA, the other wit
Fred asked
> What concentration of IPA were you using?
99% Laboratory grade. Not very pleasant to have on the skin, it dries it out
shockingly.
> There might be a difference in results between 70% and 91%
>
> There might also even be a difference in the oxide formulation between
> brands. (If C
On 07/10/2018 09:14 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote:
> So there you have it. I'm not asserting that all diskettes were manufactured
> as well as this IBM one but I stand by
> what I suggested, I would certainly try IPA again if I had to. By the 1970s I
> would think a diskette surface had co
No, no, no! Do not use isopropanol to clean floppies--you'll wind up
On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote:
Well, I suggested IPA (to Chuck's horror) so decided to put my money where my
mouth is and try it myself.
Using a 38-year old 8" IBM Diskette 1 (128-bit sectors) that I ha
Chuck reckoned
> No, no, no! Do not use isopropanol to clean floppies--you'll wind up
> with a soft oxide coating and a brown rag. Were these mine, I'd first
> remove them from their jackets and then bake them and then clean them
> with distilled water and perhaps a couple of drops of a wetting ag
g it would be the same for
8 inch disk. Once working I did copy them to floppies without liners.
Dwight
From: cctalk on behalf of Chuck Guzis via
cctalk
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 7:15:13 PM
To: Richard Pope via cctalk
Subject: Re: 8 inch floppies, decaying
No, no, no! Do not use isopropanol to clean floppies--you'll wind up
with a soft oxide coating and a brown rag. Were these mine, I'd first
remove them from their jackets and then bake them and then clean them
with distilled water and perhaps a couple of drops of a wetting agent
(Kodak Photo-flo is
Steve, Adrian,
I am pretty certain that alcohol will break down the binders and
remove the oxide. Since the bad disc was run through the drive the
head/heads should be cleaned before any more read or write attempts are
made otherwise more discs will be damaged.
Thanks,
rich!
On 7/10/2018
Adrian said:
> Tonight I got my imaging PC to successfully read some of the 8” disks from my
> CPT8500 word processor using one of its own Tandon TM848-01 drives, sadly it
> seems the boot disk is toast but I’ve been able to dump some of the data
> disks as well as the Utilities. Since I have a
Hi folks,
Tonight I got my imaging PC to successfully read some of the 8” disks from my
CPT8500 word processor using one of its own Tandon TM848-01 drives, sadly it
seems the boot disk is toast but I’ve been able to dump some of the data disks
as well as the Utilities. Since I have a box of unu
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