Gman106's Manual Floppy Disk Mk.2

Hello fellow Instructables!
Gman106 here with my first instructable 

This was my first ever thing I made from the inspiration of my fellow instructable, I'm a bit of a retro geek and love the idea of a floppy disk note pad. One morning whilst going around my local boot fair (yard sale for all the Americans out there) I spotted a box of about 60 odd floppy disks, I then just had to get them. The bloke said he found them in his dads house so he sold them all to me for 50p (around 1 Dollar)  I think that no right minded retro geek would miss out on that ^_^

I got home and got to work, now i bet that some of you are wondering 'Mark 2? i thought that this was your first instructable?' well yes it is, the mark ones (1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4) The Mk.1's where all tragic is design and in practicality, from theses I learnt and made the Mk.2s which where much better. To be honest this is Mk.2.2, and I hope that you lot will enjoy making it as much as I have.

Step 1: The Materials and Equipment

This is quite a simple build so the tools are reasonably simple and usually found around the home and/or shed :-3

Materials-
2 x floppy disk (an extra 2 if your prone to mistakes, like me)
1 x Cheap A5 lined or plain (what ever floats your boat) ring bounded note pad (Its very important that is ring bounded)

Equipment-
1 x Power Drill (with different sized drill bits)
1 x Scissors
1 x Wire Cutter (explain later) 
1 x Hole Puncher
1 x Pen and Pencil
1 x Ruler

Now we have everything we can start the building....

Comments

[Ernest12]

You didn't check what was on the disk's? Could have been very interesting.

[2lfthnds]

You could use a hot nail for melting the holes in the floppy...

[Gman106]

Yeah but you could risk damaging it and ruining the final effect, you can give it a shot but i think it might not work too well. Anyways good luck :-D

[dude300]

not to criticise but couldn't of you just used the holes existing in the floppy disc

[Gman106]

Yeah i tried that, that was my Mk1.3. The holes wherent adiquate for the job and where in diffrent places. It needs 2 solid holes and that are in even places for it to work. My Mk.1s where suppost to help others from my mistakes, but you can try it if you want :-P