#floppy disc magnets

[foone]

i know i could just look this up it's more interesting this way: why are they called *floppy* disks? i can't imagine they've ever been actually floppy.

They were! I’m not sure I can reply with images in an Ask, but the original (released) form of floppy disks was an 8″ vinyl jacket around a plastic disc, so they were quite floppy. That later lead to the 5.25″ version, which worked similarly but was smaller, and then Sony decided to add a hard plastic case to make them more sturdy. 

BUT, and this is the key part, the actual magnetic surface? the circle that the data is stored on? It’s still flexible! 

It’s named in contrast to hard disks, which were metal or glass, so they were quite harder. Even with the plastic shells of 3.5″ disks, hard drives are harder. 

[ragsy]

Free creature idea: A hermit crab that fits its abdomen into cartridge/disc ports on electronics instead of seashells. It starts out small enough to fit into microSD slots, then as it grows, it moves to larger and larger slots, such as DS, SNES, floppy, magnet tape cassettes, even laserdisc. It communicates with other crabs (such as danger alerts and finding a mate) by outputting video and audio signals that look and sound like absolute garbled nonsense noise.

[the-moon-and-the-comet]

i don’t think that jmart are trapped in the puter. i think it’s just their voices - but not just jonny’s and alex’s voices, but jon’s and martin’s

remember how in mag 65 tessa winters talks about how casette tapes being analogical is a common misconseption and how in actuality they are digital, just an old version of digital? i think that somehow, the tapes we know and love tangeled together with the puters (old digital merging with old digital, making it impossible to update (also, im pretty sure that tapes are the direct predecessor to floppy discs, they’re also both a kind of magnetic storage (it was never about analog vs digital but about magnets after all lmao))) and that’s how norris and chester sound like jmart - their voices are the most common on the tapes after all. i think that tma’s ending will remain sort of open, and that norris and chester are not martin and jon, but merely an echo, a small part of them.

[nhaneh]

anyway the reason they're called "floppy" disks is because the actual disc part - the circular thing inside that the actual data is stored on - is made of this soft plastic material that's a lot like the magnetic tape of VHS or audio cassettes or the like. The 3.5" floppies might have a rigid protective casing compared to the more flexible envelopes of 5.25" diskettes and its like, but the actual storage medium inside is still very floppy and flexible.

This is in contrast to hard disks, which instead use rigid metal disks as their storage medium, thus hard disks versus floppy disks.

[cozy2000]

the "dislike" sections on the robot masters are so fucking funny because some of them make sense right?. magnet man hates floppy discs, elec man hates rubber, quick man hates snails. but also some of them are just random as hell. crash man hates recycling. why? he just does.

the best one though is flash man. his dislike is "commercials for wigs"

im sure you can guess why

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

HI THERE SRY IF THIS IS WEIRD BUT I SAW UR TAGS AND I LOVE TALKING ABOUT MINIDISCS SO—

they were kinda like floppy discs! you’re not supposed to take them out of their casing, tho you occasionally can get stuff in there and need to clean it out but that’s generally pretty rare. they were made by sony to compete with cassette tapes, but the timing was. not great and the players could cost a pretty penny so. they did actually do really well in japan though, just not the states!

they’re a purely audio format, and basically the draws were a) really good quality, like cd type quality, which is quite a step above the previous cassette tapes, b) they were more portable than cds, and c) at the time, you couldn’t really record cds all too easily. but minidiscs were always meant to be recordable, that was their whole thing. similar to cds, you can’t record on a pre-recorded minidisc (like one from a label company. if just like your brother recorded something on a disc you absolutely can re-record it), but unlike cds you will never find prerecorded minidiscs anywhere so it’s not really an issue lol

the recorders also use a thing called a magneto-optical drive, which is where a laser makes the disc REAL DANG HOT before the magnet writes the data in it, so you don’t have to worry about leaving your discs by magnets the way you might with cassettes!

at first you could only record through a recording line, so if you had a fifty minute album guess who couldn’t use their player for fifty minutes until it was done recording! later though some of the recorders had a thing called netmd, which lets you use files on your computer to record much quicker, without waiting for the whole thing to play out. the discs had a recording time of either 60, 74, or 80 minutes, tho you almost never see 60s around these days. if you wanted to record for longer tho, you could, it really just depends on whether or not you can play it lol. basically later on a bunch of the players were able to use a thing called long play, but some players can’t so your disc will be unreadable to them. but! the discs themselves are always able to record long play no matter when they were made, and you can pretty much endlessly re-record minidiscs without them wearing out. so if your hypothetical brother gives you his old minidiscs and he has crappy taste in music and you have a recorder that can’t play long play, no worries, just re-record them as regular discs and you’ll be good to go! there are two types of long play, lp2 and lp4, and any player that can play long play can play either. as u might guess they double or quadruple your discs recording time respectively, at the loss of some sound quality. it’s not terrible, but also discs aren’t super expensive so the only time i’ve ever really used lp4 is to record several podcast episodes on one disc.

they’re all very pretty like the one in the picture tho!! these are a few of my favorites that i own:

i wish i had a picture of my dad’s one with miffy on it because that one’s very cute too heh. i really like the ones where the disc itself is coloured too! the clear neige at the bottom is one of the most common ones you’ll find, especially if you buy them new you’ll get something similar to it. they don’t actually make the fun coloured ones anymore, :( but you can get boxes of used ones that generally come in all sorts of random fun colours! the players themselves are also pretty cool looking! pls ignore gollum’s reflection there haha!

they do not all look like that lol, but generally the players are nicer looking than the ones that can play and record. (the one in the picture up there can’t record, tho this one can. pretty much all the recorders look something similar to this. the ones that can only play look very neat though)

all the recorders have screens, most of the players don’t, but oftentimes they’ll have remotes that you plug into the player and then plug your headphones into the remote, and those often have screens on them.

when they were first released they could cost you up to like 800 dollars lol, nowadays depending on the player they’ll only set you back around 40 bucks. probably a good quality mp3 player might be more practical, but i like the fun clacky plastic discs lol. plus the recordings almost never get corrupted, which is a plus!

uh anyway i’m so sorry for the tiny essay!! i just really like minidiscs! :)

Op i am holding u by the hand. This is exactly what I wanted. Thank you so much!!!!!!

[ammonitetestpatterns]

where do you play your games on?

i don't have many personal belongings, i am wageless and expatriated, reliant on the generosity of another, loosing silicon and paper traces, transmitter imprints. a daemonic attachment to the sensuous, the assail of intuition with drudgery and consumerism, the hoarder's false icons, make me feel like the unfolded haplotic and unstipulated sincerity/reality put to a long art or lifework (bildung, too fraught a term?) is capsized and stung to sea, seven of pentacles reversed. everyday i wish i had the courage to crush my electronics with a sledgehammer. solitary gaming is not as open in creative capacity or spiral staircase entry nailings to a self remade time, such that i would channel energy toward console acquisition, i take pride in loyally resigning myself to my snes and pewter. i have a fondness for archaic adventure games, druidic mysteries and visual novels for laughing matters, relished through a windows 98 install on my partner's IBM personal computer 300GL, or by the phosphor ghost blots of a senior partner. it even smells gamey to shuffle through secondhand floppy disc galleries in total dark, waiting for the occasional weird raster hatched erotica to perk up on screen, at which we cheer grotesquely, snarling at the scroll of a mutating relationship to sexuality and the pleasure of seeing from its shining chest. a few years ago i wanted to extract the audio files from the disc image for the apple II GS version of dream zone, but that never came to fruition. our latest tiny task was to burn LSD dream emulator onto a CDR to run on a scrap playstation, its function frontally for a shop display but tacitly for the elevation of the tinker's enterprise, inspired by a recent hangout/accompanied guy time, prowling through his friend's save after questioning him on the unmistakable jewel case tucked atop a shelf to which he confessed its artifice. a chain of CRTs flashed the signal in unison, tied by a wire baton. i tried to yank him over but he was too determined to beat solitaire for old time's sake. magnetized, looping his appearance, the grey man strung a sightline to my rehearsals of fragmentation, arterial gown trains unbunching at the happy town tunnel, a pulse caught under steel. the day after my birthday, riding the tryptaminic ease out, parting the beaux arts sculpting the energy transmuted and consolidated in everything, we passed back and forth a cigarette of damiana, mullein, mugwort and skullcap as the sidewalk furrowed in droves of feet around us, alterior forms aflit, reduced to fluid evaporating to city air and poison fume curvature, the cut and concourse of skirt and skins, egrets nimble under raincloud parasols, porcelain scales tiptoeing. suddenly we saw heaven, must have been choked with the hilarity. a republic of gamers sign suspended, golden, guarding over an otherwise unmarked and rather diffident black door. we pressed our palms in the shape of prayer and bowed madly, finally there was our patriotic salvation, our asylum from the warmongering of the senses. a spatial special fit for the homophone from which ojigi reached reverence in the stitch between motion and the telepathic speech act. gratitude flies me, makes me weightless over the magnitude, the rock split on the activity to which i am lent, weighed with how much is lost, an impossible proportion when your blood, importance is barred and equanimity toward enmity, the nobility in withholding, whittles its sentinel smoke to an ineffective hell. the cow toils, having total access and acclimation to the sensuous and knowing its bounds against the hope for knowledge.

this is all too internet, i need naivist abandon, smarter than any lionized sprezzatura for it is not false, unspoiled by any social simulacral mediation of the network and its orgiastic, explosive exchange of desire pumping its endlessly denied and yet compulsively prioritized platelets into a vile differencing creature suspended in a vat. apathetic to the body, sterile for its oversight, spying on cellular caresses, dalliances swallowing over the lines of separation, sporelike. i want a reality innocent for its inheritance of every ill of the inwit flayed across arrangements of matter and time, the well of history, memory drawn out and in. so that i may be the ὀπαῖον ῥέπον, lantern hole, heaven entry, night heavy, lowered as a sleepy maid's fragile eyelashes on silver moonpan'd summer, the scale dipping and the counter weight forcing a flounce, folding desolation and dissonant intension to rest. i refuse to allow the unrelenting bloodloss of the worldly profane to stain me, but i can hope to be its small medic.

[pack-yr-romantic-mind]

That hasn't been my experience at all, but I'd like to see some research on it. Sure they're not an archival format, but you can expect a commercially produced audio CD to last decades. My experience has been that tapes and vinyl records are extremely susceptible to wear in storage and during playback, whereas optical media, which has built in error-correction (and can't actually be demagnetized, since it's not a magnetic medium like tape or floppies) is only really likely to fall victim to scratches, which can often be fixed completely with a resurfacing. For reference, here's a Library of Congress study that used accelerated aging to estimate the lifespan of CDs:

10% of the discs failed at an estimated life of less than 25 years, including 6 discs (5%) that failed too early to obtain meaningful data or a meaningful lifetime estimate. 23 discs (16%) had insufficient increase in errors during the test, and thus, had infinite lifetimes, by the standards of the ISO test method. These results illustrate why it is so difficult to make broad generalizations about the lifetime of optical media.

HOLD THE LINE!! KEEP PUSHING!!!!!

[bronagh-kennedy-print-2020]

BRITISH LIBRARY EXHIBITION OCT 2024

A Silk Toad Discovery, Cave 17 Magao Caves archive from 9th Century, holding 50000 artefacts spanning 4-11 th Century. Discovered in 1907 and subsequently sold off to various foreign collectors… the Archive is a fascinating record of day to day live both political, religious and secular.

Interesting variations on a book or archive from artefact to scrolls, diagrams, multi lingual manuscripts. Diagrams and pictograms are particularly interesting in that they can communicate to numerous different nationalities without the need for the written work, translations etc.

Use of concertina books, stone rubbings, papyrus scrolls

Questions about which technology we use to archive today’s history….paper, photos, books and objects last, digital data sets are increasingly being erased, eroded and unreadable “the IBM punch card (7 3/8 inches by 3 1/4 inches comprising 80 columns and 12 rows) this preceded floppy discs, magnetic tape, cd roms , hard drives, cd, Betamax, vhs, Blu-ray, cassette tapes….all in my lifetime and all pretty well obsolete…..paper still exists

[digitaldocumentservice-blog]

Secure and Organize – Disc Archiving for Data Preservation

The importance of data protection and security cannot be underestimated in an age defined by digital information. Whether you are a person in the business of keeping important records safe or have fond memories stored on optical discs, having a reliable and efficient disc storage system is essential. This article highlights the world of automated disc storage, robotic disc storage, and automated optical storage discs to explore how these technologies are shaping the landscape of data protection. We will discuss the benefits, challenges, and solutions provided by disc archive systems and automated disc storage.

Development of Data Storage

Before we dive into the world of disc storage, let's take a brief tour of the history of data storage. Over the past few years, we have seen remarkable developments in data storage technologies. From punch cards to magnetic tape, floppy discs to compact discs (CDs), and hard drives to solid-state drives (SSDs), the ways in which data is stored and accessed have changed significantly.

Optical discs have been a popular choice for data storage due to their high capacity, long-term stability, and resistance to physical damage. However, management and preservation of optical disc data has presented challenges, especially when large collections of discs are involved. This is where automated disk storage and disc archive systems come in handy.

Need for Disc Storage Systems

Managing Data Overload

As our dependence on digital information increases, the amount of data generated and stored is also increasing. Businesses, educational institutions, government agencies, and individuals accumulate large amounts of data that need to be protected and organized. Optical discs have proven to be an efficient means of storing this data, but as disc volumes grow, the need for a systematic and automated approach becomes apparent.

Ensuring Data Protection

One of the primary concerns when it comes to data storage is protection. Traditional optical discs, such as CDs and DVDs, are susceptible to degradation over time. Exposure to light, humidity, and temperature fluctuations can cause data loss. By employing an automated disc archive system, data can be systematically stored and managed, ensuring its long-term preservation.

Quick and Efficient Recovery

Imagine a scenario where you need to access a specific document or cherished memory from a vast collection of optical discs. Sorting them manually can be a time-consuming and error-prone task. Disc archive systems equipped with robotic disc storage enable fast and efficient retrieval of data with minimal human intervention.

Role of Automated Disc Storage

Automated disc storage, often integrated with robotic systems, provides a comprehensive solution for managing large quantities of optical discs. Let's learn how these systems work and what benefits they provide.

1. Disc Automation

Automated disc storage systems are designed to automate the entire process of handling optical discs from storage to retrieval. These systems use robotic arms and advanced software to efficiently identify, classify, and manage discs. This automation reduces the risk of human error and speeds up the recovery process.

2. High Capacity Disc Storage

An important advantage of automated disc storage is its high capacity. These systems can accommodate thousands of optical discs, ensuring that even extensive collections are well-organized and easily accessible. This is especially beneficial for organizations and individuals that need substantial data storage.

3. Disc Storage Management

Effective data protection and organization requires strong storage management. Automated disc storage solutions regularly come with sophisticated management software that allows users to classify, label, and index their optical discs. This makes it easier to locate and retrieve specific data when required.

4. Automatic Backup and Restore to Disc

Automated disc storage systems can automate backup processes, ensuring that data on optical discs is regularly and securely duplicated. This redundancy reduces the risk of data loss due to disc degradation or physical damage. Additionally, these systems enable automatic restore, making it easy to recover data from backup copies.

5. Disc Recovery System

In the event of data corruption or accidental deletion, an automated disc storage system can provide a disc recovery system that can help recover lost data. This feature is invaluable for individuals and organizations who want to protect their important information.

Exploration of Robotic Disc Storage

Robotic disc storage is an important component of automated disc storage systems. These systems are equipped with robotic arms that can access and manipulate the optical disc with precision. Here's how they contribute to the efficiency of disc storage:

1. Speed and Accuracy

Robotic weapons are designed for speed and accuracy. They can quickly locate and recover the required disc, reducing the time taken to access data. This level of automation reduces the possibility of human error while ensuring data integrity.

2. Disc Protection

Robotic arms handle the discs carefully, reducing the risk of physical damage. They can also store discs under environmentally controlled conditions to extend their lifespan. This combination of careful handling and preservation increases the longevity of data stored on optical discs.

3. User-friendly Interface

Most robotic disc storage systems come with user-friendly interfaces that allow users to easily request specific discs, schedule backups, and manage their data. This accessibility makes it easy for both individuals and organizations to take advantage of automated disc storage and archiving.

Disc Storage Automation Solutions

Incorporating automated disc storage and robotic disc storage into your data protection strategy offers several attractive benefits:

1. Long-Term Data Protection

Automated disc storage solutions ensure that your data remains intact and accessible for years to come. By reducing the risk of physical damage and providing backup and recovery options, these systems help protect your data from loss and degradation.

2. Efficient Data Management

Managing a large collection of optical discs can be a daunting task. Automated systems simplify this process by classifying, labeling, and indexing data. This means you can quickly find and retrieve the information you need without the hassle of manual searching.

3. Saving Time and Cost

Automated disc storage systems save both time and money. They eliminate the need for manual data management and recovery, reducing labor costs and reducing the risk of data loss due to human error.

4. Scalability

Whether you have a small collection of optical discs or a huge collection, automated disc storage solutions can be tailored to suit your needs. They are highly scalable, ensuring that your storage system grows with your data.

Choosing the Right Solution

When selecting a disc archive system with automatic disc storage, it is essential to consider your specific needs and budget. Here are some factors to keep in mind:

1. Capacity

Determine your required capacity based on your current data storage needs and future growth projections. Make sure the system chosen can accommodate your entire disc collection.

2. Compatibility

Make sure the system is compatible with the type of optical disc you are using. Whether you rely primarily on CDs, DVDs, or Blu-ray discs, compatibility is important for a seamless collection.

3. Backup and Recovery Features

Look for systems that offer robust backup and recovery options. This ensures that your data remains secure and recoverable even in the face of unexpected problems.

4. User-friendly Interface

A user-friendly interface is essential, especially if multiple users will be accessing the system. A well-designed interface simplifies data management and retrieval.

5. Longevity and Support

Invest in a system from a reputable manufacturer that offers long-term support. You want your disc storage solution to stand the test of time and receive necessary updates and maintenance.

Conclusion

Data protection and organization are essential aspects of managing digital information. Automated disc storage and disc archive systems equipped with robotic disc storage have emerged as indispensable tools for individuals and organizations. These systems provide efficient, secure and scalable solutions for managing and preserving vast collections of optical discs. With their high-capacity storage, automation features, and data recovery capabilities, these systems provide peace of mind to anyone seeking the protection of their valuable data. As the volume of digital information continues to expand, it is a wise choice to invest in a reliable disc storage system with automated disc storage capabilities to keep your data safe for years to come.

[foone]

So I'm annoyed at a collage of minidiscs ending up in my timeline because I follow "diskette" but that's not important...

You know how weird the etymology of "diskette" is?

So, it's a portmanteau of "disk" and "cassette".

Disk as in "a round flat thing", and it's the American spelling, because the diskette was invented by IBM, an American company. Disk (usually spelled "disc" in commonwealth countries) comes from the Greek dískos, as in "discus", the circular thing you throw for sport.

And floppy disks are primarily a circle of magnetic material. That's actually how they were first conceived, as a flexible version of the rigid metal magnetic circles used in hard drives. But they quickly realized that it was impossible to keep them clean: fingerprints and dust stick to the surface too easily, ruining them. So they were given a vinyl (and later, plastic) jacket, so they could be safely carried around.

And thus, diskette was coined. Sometimes you'll see it etymologized as "small disk", like a disk-ette, but that's wrong: it's a portmanteau with cassette. Because cassettes were made by taking reel to reel magnetic tape and putting it in a small case, so they can be quickly and reliably loaded.

And why are cassettes called that? Well, it's French. But in French it's quite simple: it's the diminutive of "casse", which means case. It's a little case. You put the tape in a little box. It's a cassette.

So similarly, diskette was made by cassettizing "disk". You put the disk in a little case. It's a disk cassette, a diskette.

This sort of thinking also explains why they're called "floppy disks" when they've been hard plastic since 1984: it's just like how we call cassettes "tapes". They're not tape, they're a little plastic box containing tape. Tape is a thin flexible thing that you wrap around a spool, not a little plastic box. But we call them "tapes"/"a tape" as synecdoche: a part is used to represent the whole. It's a "tape", fittingly because the tape is the important part. It's the part that stores the audio, the rest is just packaging to keep it safe and reliable.

Floppy disks are similarly called such: the floppy part is the magnetic disk inside the vinyl or plastic case. We're calling the whole package by the part that actually stores the data.

And in any case, they were named as such in comparison to "hard disks": the metal or glass surfaces used by hard drives.

Anyway, three final things:

1. You ever wonder why it's Floppy Disk but optical discs? You have a DVD* disc or a CD (compact disc), not a DVD Disk or Compact Disk. I already basically explained it: floppies were invented in the US, and compact discs came from a Philips/Sony partnership: a Dutch/Japanese partnership. So they used the commonwealth spelling, thus it became a standard to refer to optical media as "discs".

2. My favorite silly floppy fact comes from this sort of thing: so the first floppies were 8", then the 5.25" model was invented, and in 1981 we got the 3.5" floppy. These are by far the three most common floppy disks, and those are their names, used nearly** universally in English.

But here's the thing: one of them is wrong.

8 inch floppy disks? They're eight inches even. 5.25 inch floppy disks? They're 5.25 inches even.

3.5" disks are actually 3.543"!

This is for the same reason why we have disk vs disc for floppy and optical media: 8" disks were invented by IBM, an American company. 5.25" disks were invented by Shugart/Wang, both American companies.

3.5" disks were invented by Sony, a Japanese company. They're not 3.5" disks... They're 90mm disks!

But it was already the standard in English that floppy disk formats get called by their size in inches, so it has always been called the 3.5" disk, because that's close enough for jazz.

3. to get back to the first point of this post: minidiscs aren't diskettes. Diskette is for disks, and minidiscs are discs. They're not flexible, they're rigid: minidiscs are actually magneto-optical discs, where there's a small plastic disc like a CD, which is read by a laser but written by a magnetic read head. Since they have to be rigid for the laser to work, they're (rigid) discs, not (flexible) disks. They are confusing, I agree: usually magnetic media is disk, while optical is disc, and disks have cases, while discs are just a plastic circle... But minidiscs are magnetic AND optical, and they're optical but inside a case. They're one of those exceptions that makes taxonomy so difficult. (they're very trans in that way, imo)

* I intentionally didn't expand out the acronym DVD, because the fun fact is about that is that DVD is not an acronym. Not anymore. It was originally supposed to be Digital Video Disc, but the later Digital Versatile Disc to better reflect the non-video uses of the disc, but apparently the official meaning of the acronym is now that it just is the name of the disc. It's a DVD: it doesn't stand for anything.

** one exception to the "universally called by their sizes in English" that I'm aware of is South Africa. For Reasons they just called the 5.25" disks "floppies", and then when 3.5" disks came around, they called them... "stiffies". Yes, this is hilarious. They know.

[foone]

That's a QIC backup tape! There were specialized tape drives that could read and write them. They were almost exclusively used for backups, because tape is good at that: you can store a lot of data on a tape, so back in the days of where your whole hard drive was only a half gigabyte, they could do the whole backup on one tape.

They are never that big for home users (though they did exist) but a lot of businesses had them.

Colorado Backup was a big producer of these, and they figured out a trick early on to make them way cheaper: they didn't include components to encode and decode magnetic signals into digital data. How'd it work, then? They plugged it into the floppy drive controller.

As far as the floppy drive controller could tell, this tape was just a giant floppy disk. The backup software told the floppy drive controller to write a floppy disks sector... And instead of it getting written as a curved line on a spinning disc, it gets written linearly on a long tape.

It wasn't the most dense way to encode the data, but it made the drives way cheaper. So it really helped Colorado Backup catch on.

Anyway, using them to distribute data is slightly weird. They were never big for that (except some server uses, like Sun), but the problem was always compatibility: you had no idea if the person you're giving the tape to has a tape drive, or if they have the compatible one. So you'd use floppy disks most of the time, even when that was unwieldy (here's the file, it's only 40mb... That's 28 floppy disks).

this goes in a computer somehow

[indilegalonline]

Section 2(12A) of Income Tax Act 1961:"Books or Books of account"

Section 2(12A) of Income Tax Act 1961-“Books or Books of account” includes ledgers, day books, cash books, account books, and other books, whether kept [in the written form or in electronic form or in digital form or as print-outs of data stored in such electronic form or in digital form or in] a floppy, disc, tape or any other form of electro-magnetic data storage device;

[taoyuanleduv]

UV application

UV curing: here "UV" is the English abbreviation of ultraviolet light, and curing refers to the process of changing a substance from a low molecular weight to a high molecular weight. UV curing[1] generally refers to the curing conditions or requirements of coatings (paints), inks, adhesives (glue) or other potting sealants that need to be cured by ultraviolet rays, which is different from heating curing and bonding agents (curing agents) curing, natural curing, etc.

The physical properties of UV curable materials are substantially affected by the drying system used to cure them. Achieving the desired performance, whether it is a preservative, ink, or adhesive, will depend on the parameters, design, and method of control of these lamps. The four key parameters of UV lamps are: 1. UV irradiance (or density) 2. Spectral distribution (wavelength) 3. Radiation amount (or UV energy) 4. Infrared radiation. Inks and adhesives will exhibit very different properties with respect to maximum irradiance or amount of radiation, and different UV spectra. The ability to identify the characteristics of different UV lamps and match them to the optical properties of curable materials expands the scope of UV curing as a fast and efficient production process. The main application areas of uv curing: Wood coatings - wood primers and top coats and base coats: fillers (filling of internal and surface voids in wood panels); water-based furniture coatings.

Plastic Coatings - Film Coatings and Hard Coatings: Metallized plastic substrate coatings for automotive parts, appliances, compact discs, credit cards, window films, and automotive headlights and illuminated components.

Paper coating—surface gloss, metallized paper substrate coating for decorative paper, labels, cards and writing, etc.

Floor coatings - vinyl felt, vinyl silicon, parquet.

Metal coating - food cans, automotive and equipment decoration, traffic tunnel wall panels.

Silicone coatings (paper/film) - release liners, labels, castings.

Electronic coatings - conformal coatings, encapsulation compounds, photoresists, floppy (hard) disks, optical disks, video tapes, magnetic tapes, optical fibers.

Inks - Offset (cardboard boxes, flexible packaging, magazines, publications), screen printing (plastic labels, plastic bottles, foil, paper and cardboard packaging) and printing.

Adhesives - Laminating materials (paper or film/wood, film, paper, foil, etc.), general bonding (automotive components, optics), and pressure sensitive adhesives (labels, contact paper/film, etc.).

Cross-linking - heat shrinkable film, electrical insulation material.

[studiovlinderdas]

🧲🚫💾Kanto "BZZT" Redesign💾🚫🧲 Magnemite, Voltorb and Porygon this time~!! And boii, were they challenging!! Magnemite was the easiest, as the Mite part already brings ideas with it. I went for the literal Mite route, turning it into a robotic bug with a magnet for pincers. Finish it off with some bolts and miscellaneous metal parts and you've got yourself a proper Lil dude. Voltorb is now based around a Plasma Globe, yet still takes some inspiration from the Pokeball capsule. It's more friendly though, rather hyperactive too to match the more spikey bolts jotting through the encasing. It was the hardest to make interesting as the silhouette is rather simple. Porygon now resembles a Floppy Disc. It still consists mostly of code but has the added role of being more of a mascot. It still leans heavily on the theme of dated technology. Soon we'll reach the 50 Redesigns mark, and I still need to figure out how to celebrate it .w.;; Also wondering whether I should first make some more single stages or evolutions before finishing the first stages. 44/151