Clean them heads - Make Your Own Floppy Drive Head Cleaner and more!

In this video I'll show you how to troubleshoot a floppy disk drive thats not reading disks. I'll then show you how to manually clean one, and finally how to build your own floppy drive head cleaning disk. These cleaning disks have always worked perfectly for me, however you use this build guide at your own risk.

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📖 Chapters (00:00) Intro (00:20) Inside a Floppy Disk Drive (01:26) Manual Floppy Drive Head Cleaning (02:09) Floppy Disk Head Cleaners (02:31) Items - Assemble (02:38) The Perfect Cleaning Material (03:27) Make Your Own Head Cleaning Disk (04:51) Using Your Head Cleaning Disk (05:27) Summary

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