Durable Wallet made from old floppy disk cables.

This instructable will teach you how to make your very own extra-durable wallet made from floppy disk cables. I had quite a few old floppy disk cables and wanted to make something for the 5-day make a wallet contest so I thought they would work great. Turned out looking pretty good and is really strong.

Step 1 Materials

These are the materials you will need to make the wallet:
~ a couple floppy disk stata cables
~ a good amount of electrical tape
~ scissors
~ one pair of needle nose pliers

Comments

[The_Black_Hole]

fyi those are IDE cables not sata

[ampeyro]

wow, i used th same cables in an explosive test, they are realy strong

[Shut Up Now]

grey duct tape would make it look neater but otherwise, good ible

[I3uckwheat]

hey it better than nothing\

[TheCheese9921]

looks kinda sloppy mabey if you folded the stata cables inside the wallet from the sides and put the tape inside??

[peapeam]

Hi, thought this was a real cool idea, but not to be negative, I also thought like TheCheese9921, that it looks (not kinda, but really) sloppy. I'll try to be a bit constructive... :) Maybe you by choosing a wider tape, and extending the pieces the whole length of the side that is being taped, it would look better? Or the wider tape could be used to cover up the smaller pieces used to put the parts together, done at the end with wide and nice whole lengths? I would think that he wallet then would look really neat! I think I'd choose 2" wide either duct or gaffa tape. I have used 2" gaffa tape to assemble home made soft boxes, and it has worked out fine. Maybe silver tape would look stylish with the grey cables? Maybe a velcro dot could be added to close it tightly too?

[TheCheese9921]

I said kinda cause I didn't want to be to mean

[peapeam]

Hi, I hear you, but I think it is OK to be honest, as long as one are constructive, if you know what I mean - which you BTW were! :) Taking a little bit more time, and this wallet will look really, really cool! :)

[TheCheese9921]

but yeah now that its out there yeah this is really sloppy

[lacrosseislife24]

i tried to put the tape on the inside put it fell apart immedietly

[TheCheese9921]

try using stronger tape like duct tape or 100 mph tape

[kibbler]

100 mph tape? I've never heard of it. Can you tell me?