Very nice! The felt lining looks perfect, great job.

Generally, you won’t ruin it. Modern stuff with switching power supplies like laptops handle the difference automatically. Old motor-driven devices like record players may speed up or slow down depending on their rating, and large AC induction motors, like washing machines, might heat up slightly.

Since tape trading, for me. Don’t invent the means to copy the media if you don’t want the media copied.

I refuse to watch anything with Tucker Carlson’s big dumb head on it.

The Teenage Engineering vinyl cutter goes for something like $150 for a little portable home machine that makes 5" discs.

You may not like it, but this is what peak cleanliness looks like.

I don’t remember seeing pirated stuff before Dreamcast / PS1, although to be fair, I was at a lot of PC conventions back then grabbing freeware disks and stuff, so I probably saw a lot of pirated stuff without knowing what I was looking at, just by virtue of being too young to be into the pirating / modding community.

I don’t have an answer for you, but it seems feasible enough. If you decide to try it, let us know how it works.