[BoyElroy]

Very funny "Extreme Dremel Experiments" web site.

http://www.powerlabs.org/cdexplode.htm


Video of Exploding CD

 

[JMedeiros]

Thanks Elroy...that sure beat the news on CNN this morning and was alot more fun with my coffee this AM.

John

 

[ProFingerSk8er]

dammmmnn..that dood is crazy

 

[Duncan]

Hey... that is cool

...Might just have to try that with all my coasters

 

[wallijonn]

wisdom that I got from the article: "48x CD Writer is the highest you should go". nice info.

 

[lan]

somebody is pretty bored

i'm too lazy to clean up so i wouldn't even make that mess.

i like the sparklies when cds are microwaved.

 

[aeberbach]

A Paul Simon CD exploded in my CD drive once, I guess because it wasn't stable enough when I ripped it at high speed.

 

[lan]

weird. Was the CD warped or cracked?

i dont have any high speed cd-roms, they're old. so i don't run into that prob.

 

[stereth]

Sweet. I know what I'm going to be doing this weekend.

 

[jaskin]

Wah Cool

 

[blip]

Quote:

Originally posted by lan weird. Was the CD warped or cracked?

From what I hear it doesn't have to... At the speeds that fast drives hit microscopic flaws in the disc can expand suddenly leading to... well... it going BANG!

 

[aeberbach]

Yes, it did have cracks around the center of the CD from a particularly vicious Sony portable I used to own. Still you don't expect them to explode! It was the loudest bang I have ever heard from a computer, I thought it was one the power supply caps bursting and then wondered why nothing had crashed.

 

[Flasken]

That's a spicy meatball!!

I loved the part where a cd jumped onto the skateboard and up the ceiling TWICE!!!

ayecaramba

 

[Outdoor Man]

LOL

Can you imagine.

A Ninja walking around with a dremmel.

trowing his stars with it.

Peter.

 

[lan]

aeberbach, wow! was the drive totally destroyed?