Things to Do with old CD-R'S

[WRATH OF BOD]

have some fun with that pile of old cd-r & dvd-r you have laying around






YouTube- Exploding CD

[crashtestmac]

Holy shit,...

Is that CD just on the end of a dremmel...?

Wow.

[russbeer]

how'd they do that in the vid then?

[{{909}}]

never put a cracked CD in a 52x CDrom?

[tiggerbiker]

i watched an episode of mythbusters and they mounted cd-r's on the end of a router (the DIY tool not ethernet) and found that they reliably shatter at around 33-34'000 rpm

[PrideandPassion]

I think i will try this

[Modcoms]

i watched an episode of mythbusters and they mounted cd-r's on the end of a router (the DIY tool not ethernet) and found that they reliably shatter at around 33-34'000 rpm

YouTube- 52x CD-ROM Drive Explodes a Standard CD

[Ginnerfreak]

Shit.. How heavy must those chairs be... You ever tried picking up a box of 1000 cd-r's ... its heavy..

[Mystical_2K]

cool, gotta have a go of that

[the.insane]

never put a cracked CD in a 52x CDrom?

already done mate, cost me one new pioneer dvd drive

[eblaster101]

what happend to just using them as coasters

[c0axial]

Microwave them...

[pacman88]

I didn't think they would break that easily at hi RPM

[{{909}}]

already done mate, cost me one new pioneer dvd drive

i was at college when they upgraded all the 8x cd roms to cheapo 52x drives, we had a supply of old warez disks and other crap that would happily read in the old drives but would randomly explode in the new ones, it was a daily occourance to hear the wirr of a drive, then a loud bang before curses of confusion

[TwoPlAnKs]

Microwave them...

I've done that under the auspices of a Young Enterprise company we ran in our final year at school.

Our team was making CD clocks, hugely predictable although we made quite a few after I bought a heap of suspiciously cheap clock motors off the net. We used all kinds of CDs, including black ones from the original playstation which was top of the console market at the time.

We did all sorts of things to CDs, scratching them up, microwaving them, putting them in the oven. None that exciting, the microwaved one just had a cool pattern of burnt bits where sparks came out, and the one in the oven sort of melted and bubbled then refroze with the bubbles and actually looked better in a way.

Apparently records, as in vinyl, work a lot better and if you put it in the oven it goes all twisted and cool, and you can enhance the effect by putting weights on it whilst it is melting slowly. They are just slightly harder to get a hold of, especially in modern times, whilst CDs can be got by going into the local WH Smiths and lifting an entire box of free AOL dial-up install CDs much to the confusion of the person standing on the checkout. (or so I've heard)

[WRATH OF BOD]

I didn't think they would break that easily at hi RPM

yes they do.i have had 2 go on me & replaced at least 10 roms in the last ten years for customers.