RE: Exploding CD

["Paul Gale" <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cool - but my videos were much better :) Unfortunately can't post them
as were under NDA :(

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Laurence Mason
> Sent: 15 May 2007 13:59
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Exploding CD
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> Put "exploding cd" into youtube and watch the video.
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> Laurence
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> Andy Davies wrote:
> > Had it happen about 6 or so years back with a PC at work - the
drive
> > wouldn't even eject the tray after after, so we took it a apart
and saw
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> > right mess...
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> > On 15/05/07, Pete <pslists@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >> Has anyone had a CD explode in a drive? I couldn't play this
audio CD-R
> >> under WinXP for some reason although I could see the cda
file, so I
> >> tried in my Ubuntu server. No joy but a lot of whirring
noise.
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> >> an attempt to eject it after about half a minute and there
was a very
> >> load bang.
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> >> I stripped down the DVD writer and emptied all the bits of
plastic and
> >> most of the shards of silver coloured foil that were all over
the
> >> inside. Even the Dyson wouldn't pull them all out. It looks
like the
> >> explosion damaged the edge of  the ribbon cable to the read
head
> though,
> >> as the reassembled drive won't recognise media now :-)
> >>
> >> Now landfill, but is this a first or have others experienced
similar
> >> things?
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