RE: [microsound] Disc Rot

[Dror Eyal <DrorE@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Having recently read about the interesting effects of coke, yes coca-cola
not the other stuff, on various objects, I would suggest leaving your CD in
some coke overnight ... who knows.

K. 

-----Original Message-----
From: multipara [mailto:multipara@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 February 2001 23:16
To: microsound
Subject: Re: [microsound] Disc Rot


>Jake Hardy wrote:
>
>>  Can anyone fill me in on the details of disc rot?  Does it actually
>  > change the sound of the recording or does it simply stop playing?

brian lavelle:

>As to how you'd do it yourself, I'm not sure you could, unless you 
>could replicate the corroding effects
>from which these discs suffer.  Worth a try though...

i'm told that the corroding effect can be gotten rather fast by 
sawing a cd open. i suggest giving some of the aluminium a bit of air.

p.

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