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Another use for bad CD-Rs

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maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 06 Mar 2003 : 04:19:14 Use 'em as coasters! No, I'm serious. I have a bad MP3 CD that my 1400 literally toasted (Bloody slow SCSI bus doesn't support SCSI Manager 4.3....grrrr), so now whenever i get a Coke, i put my bottle on the CD! Anyone got any other uses for dodgy CDs? -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 06 Mar 2003 : 07:02:21 A Half-Priced Books in Austin Texas made a giant disco-ball out of a bunch of old CDs. And a music story in Berkeley, California has a 20 foot snake of CDs strung on some sort of pipe or hose. Personally, I just leave them shiny-side up in a sunny window sill. That way, they cast rainbow reflections on the ceiling. I suppose that if one had enough of them, they could be used as roofing tiles for a dog house house -- for Cyberdog, of course Hmmm... now I am imagining a hacked Mac case made entirely of dead CDs. G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent
QuadraJets Junior Member USA 344 Posts	Posted - 06 Mar 2003 : 08:29:00 I duct-tape bottle rockets to em, light em, and throw the CD like a frisbee(over the field behind my house, of course). It makes a nice shower of shattered polycarbonate Artillery Commander/Engineer, 68kMLA Liberated: LCII , III+, IIci, Q700, 800, and 840av, P550, 410 Contraband: Beige G3/300 MT o/c 400mhz, (2) 6100's Keeper of the 68kmla Hotline mirror server: 68k.dyndns.org
Clinton Full Member USA 700 Posts	Posted - 06 Mar 2003 : 10:34:07 hang 'em in a fruit tree with bits of fishing line. the reflections keep the birds from eating your cherries, etc. also, sharpen the edges, and throw them at large sheets of styrofoam as darts ;P CCC Lieutennant Commander (Pronounced Leftennant) 68k Macs Rescued: 2 Pluses, a 512KE, a Classic II, a Q650, a Q660AV, and a MacII Contraband rescued: Power Computing PowerBase 200, a PM 8600/300, and a PM8500/180 Apple //s rescued: Apple //e
FireWire is fast General, 4 star USA 1559 Posts	Posted - 07 Mar 2003 : 22:16:54 quote: Use 'em as coasters! Hmm...that's probably why incorrectly burned CDs tend to be called "coasters" these days...I don't know if they use that lingo down under, though... -------------------- master of the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice™ and figure-head of the Peoples' PDS Republic --------------------
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 07 Mar 2003 : 23:04:02 I've never really had a "bad" burn......... I also haven't burned too many CDs though... and whatever I've had was either brand new, or the computer way newer thanthe burner... so it's all good Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 08 Mar 2003 : 01:29:06 quote: Hmm...that's probably why incorrectly burned CDs tend to be called "coasters" these days...I don't know if they use that lingo down under, though... I do, although iThink i'm liek the only one... -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
oldmacman Full Member USA 713 Posts	Posted - 08 Mar 2003 : 09:06:55 I once used a bad CD-R as a bridge for a musical instrument! Really! For Science Olympiad in 8th grade, I had to build my own musical instrument. I couldn't find any small piece of hard plastic to use as a bridge, so I made the bridge and the nut out of pieces of a bad CD-R. It worked quite well, really. Official 68kMLA Music and NeXT Expert Macs Liberated: SE (2), LC, IIsi, PB 145b, Quadra 700 (2), LC 575, 6100 (2), PB 5300, PowerMac 5400/200, Performa 6400/180 PCs liberated from Windoze: 3
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 08 Mar 2003 : 22:21:14 I'd like to use them for Frisbees -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 08 Mar 2003 : 22:27:26 well we could take over the world by using our bad CDs and (AOL CDs) by sharpening them and taking out world leaders (and dictators) with quicklike frisbee shots (or we could throw them at our bedroom walls and watch as they slowly shatter and fall into large pieces, hiding them when our mothers come in "WHAT is that noise?" Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 08 Mar 2003 : 22:28:23 LOL my mother would freak! -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 08 Mar 2003 : 22:53:46 my mom didn't... my dad would though Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 09 Mar 2003 : 21:46:32 Heh, iThink both my parents would. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 09 Mar 2003 : 22:41:57 My dad would think i'd be funny though. -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
Brett B. Junior Member USA 105 Posts	Posted - 09 Mar 2003 : 23:12:08 quote: Anyone got any other uses for dodgy CDs? put them in the microwave for 5 seconds! ...you should put them on a paper towel though Edited by - Brett B. on 09 Mar 2003 23:14:00
Clinton Full Member USA 700 Posts	Posted - 10 Mar 2003 : 12:49:57 quote: quote: Anyone got any other uses for dodgy CDs? put them in the microwave for 5 seconds! ...you should put them on a paper towel though Edited by - Brett B. on 09 Mar 2003 23:14:00 DONT do that unless you want to knacker your radarange!!! do what the ladies of the '70s did with bad vinyl, heat it in the oven, ripple the surface, spraypaint gold, and make a clock out of it CCC Lieutennant Commander (Pronounced Leftennant) 68k Macs Rescued: 2 Pluses, a 512KE, a Classic II, a Q650, a Q660AV, and a MacII Contraband rescued: Power Computing PowerBase 200, a PM 8600/300, and a PM8500/180 Apple //s rescued: Apple //e

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