From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: asbesto@freaknet.org (asbesto) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:28:46 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Recovering flaky CDs In-Reply-To: <20071031181905.28E003AA646@ws5-8.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20071031181905.28E003AA646@ws5-8.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <20071031182845.GA24966@freaknet.org> Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:19:05AM -0800, James Petts wrote: > > > A great problem I had some time ago was a sort of oxydation of the > > > cd material; this seem to happen using very bad cd brands. i had > > degrC. Within a day the aluminium layer had holes in it the size of dimes. > > Apparantly the protective lacquer was very substandard. > And it is the top side (label side) of the CD that is most > fragile, not the reading side. There is about 0.5 mm of YES - and the oxidation I had was on the top "label" side, affecting also the reading side :( p.s. the lack of "reply-to" in this mailing list is very, very annoying, because it generate a lot of duplicates. 8( -- [ 73 de IW9HGS : freaknet medialab : radiocybernet : poetry hacklab] [ http://freaknet.org/asbesto - http://papuasia.org/radiocybernet ] [ NON SCRIVERMI USANDO LETTERE ACCENTATE! - NON MANDARMI ALLEGATI ] [ *I DELETE* EMAIL > 100K, ATTACHMENTS, HTML, M$-WORD DOC and SPAM ]