The stainless steel jump rings seem like they could add up to an substantial total given the quantity you need ( four per disk). Fishing and support ing goods stores (e. Bass Pro Shops, Gander Mountain, Sports Authority, Dick's etc.) have small 'split rings' (like those used for keys) which are used for fishing tackle. They usually sell in paks of 5 or 10 for a little more than what one jump ring seems to cost. If true stainless steel is not available, some fishing ones are labeled as 'English stainless' which is actually some kind of plating on either steel or brass, but seems to resist corrosion fairly well. It seems like these would be easy to install as compared to having to bend open and then bend closed the split rings, as long as you buy relatively thin split rings.

If opening the split rings is difficult for you (as for me, having lost some feeling in my finger tips as I get old and decrepit), you will find very near the split rings in the sporting goods store a tool called a 'split ring pliers' (for about $10). The pliers make opening them simple. I just have some questions.

Since people mention canvas liners or towels being attached to the disks, what value are the disks adding to the item? Is it only decorative or do they somehow add to the functionality? It's a lot easier to make a bag just from canvas. The kind of reuse I think of for recycling things is a use that needs some quality that the thing has. The only way I've used floppy disks so far is to hot-glue four of them together in a stack for use as a weight at the end of a thick cord. They already have a hole big enough for the cord, and enough weight to keep the cord in place when it is stretched between two railings.

This is a bag I made from floppy disks. I found scads of floppy disks in a dumpster and wanted to make plate mail armor out of it (that is my next floppy project) I. A floppy disk drive is a computer component that was designed to read and write to floppy disks that were used for removable storage. The most popular type of floppy.

They have enough color to be attractive and they are not sharp or heavy enough to be dangerous like a chunk of junk metal. Office 2003 Professional Ita Isolation. Not that I don't think the bags are cute -- but is that the only reason to use the floppies? Capm Rita Mulcahy Rapidshare Free.

Reader Kristie wrote in with this puzzler: 'I just found a shoebox full of 3.5-inch disks. I think they were from my old digital camera, but I have no way of finding out because I no longer have a computer (or camera) that can read them. What can I do?' Talk about a trip down memory lane! I haven't so much as laid eyes on a 3.5-inch 'floppy' in years, and I'd forgotten that a few early digital cameras did indeed storage images on that kind of media. Needless to say, however, modern PCs don't have floppy drives. (Same goes for not-so-modern ones.) So how can you hope to extract your photos, WordPerfect documents, and any other old data that might be lingering on those disks?

You could try to borrow an old PC that has a disk drive, but then you're faced with the problem of transferring the data to your own PC. Depending on how old that borrowed machine is, it might not have a USB port. No, a better bet is simply to spend a few bucks. I did a little shopping on Ebay and found plenty of 3.5-inch external floppy disk drives, most of them selling in the $10-15 range. If you'd rather not go the auction route, Newegg also sells. (Just be sure to check the user reviews for some tips on using it.) I think that's a fairly small price to pay for the simplicity of accessing your old disks on your modern PC. Just plug the drive into a USB port and you should be good to go.