We thought that was obvious.

>[Compressed air] does however remove the build up of fluff and crud 
>that can get into the disk and crap it up *outside* of the heads. 
>Even though the heads are the only bit that touch the media the hole 
>that i s opened to allow this is wider than the heads on Apple 
>drives (and most others FTM) and allows dirt into the disk. Add to 
>that the fact that dust has an uncanny knack of transmitting static 
>electricity and you have a recipe for disaster. I, personally, 
>strongly advise that if your floppy drive is dirty you drive the 
>fluff out with canned air or something like that to get rid of pesky 
>fluff.


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