On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 00:04 -0600, Shane Hathaway wrote: > Nicholas Leippe wrote: > > On Wed Apr 8 2009 11:11:54 Brandon Stout wrote: > >> I have an original audio CD that has a crack spreading from the edge. > >> It's finally reached the last track. Might superglue to hold it > >> together and turtle wax over the scratch work? Anyone tried that? > > > > I would not put a cracked CD into any drive. That's flying, plastic shards > > waiting to happen. Especially since most drives now are 32x or faster--they > > are spinning very fast. 52x is 10k rpm, 65m/s linear velocity on the outer > > edge. That's a lot of force for a cracked disk to have to withstand. > > I recently saw that Mythbusters episode, and my brother has actually had > it happen. A weakened CD exploded inside his drive, leaving sharp > plastic and aluminum bits all over inside. I was amazed to see it. He > said it made a loud bang when it happened. Nothing actually came out of > the drive, though, and the drive kept functioning fine. I later cleaned > out the bits.
Happened to me too, about 8 years ago. It sounded pretty much what you'd think an exploding CD would sound like. I don't recall the speed of the drive, but being that it was so long ago I'm sure it wasn't a 52x. As far as I knew, the drive and disc were both in fine condition but I assume one of them was not and the two made contact. I couldn't trust the drive anymore so I replaced it. The disc was Half-Life, which made me very sad. :'( Corey
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