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Turn your old disks into a fancy box for the desk
I had so many leftover floppy disk for which I don't even have a disk drive anymore. This idea turned out to be really useful, that's why I share it with you.
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Step 1I recommend the Crop-a-Dile, that’s a big hole punch and eyelet setting tool. For the box, choose the smaller punch size.
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Step 2Take four disks and punch holes where the arrows in my picture point to the small round indentions. On the other edge, put the little square switch to “write protected”, then you’ll have two holes in the disk without even punching :D
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Step 3Attach the disks to each other by inserting the cable ties by threading them through the holes. The fasteners should be positioned inside the resulting box.
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Step 4When you pull the cable ties tight, one disk should sit on the other in a right angle.
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Step 5That’s what it looks like from the inside. You can cut off the excess plastic with your scissors.
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Step 6Here’s a diagram (representing a view from above) how the disks should be attached to each other.
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Step 7Now you can attach the bottom. Turn your box around and lay the fifth disk on top. Now take the sharpie and mark two points close to the edge where you’ll punch the holes. Some disks have small indentions (as can be seen in the next picture) which you can take as an orientation. On the disks which you’ll affix the bottom disk to, mark two points like shown in the picture.
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Step 8Don’t punch too close to the edge or the plastic will split. Punch the holes into the box as well.
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Step 9Here you can see where the holes for the bottom should be punched.
Attach the bottom to the walls of the box in the same manner as before, leaving the ends of the cable ties inside the box. Cut off excess ties with scissors. -
Step 10Done! these boxes are quite large and offer space for big office tools like staplers.
So how do you like it? I’m looking forward to your comments :D
What I like most about the boxes is what's written on the labels. Things like "Installation Disk 1 of 4" crack me up...
only finding some time;-D
thank you for sharing this;-D!!!!