removing candle wax from CD (recorded side!)

[doorrag]

I know I shouldn't have left it where it could happen, but I did. Can
anyone help?

 

[Ken Weitzel]

I know I shouldn't have left it where it could happen, but I did. Can
anyone help?

Hi...

Just a thought for your consideration...

Freeze it, then gently flex the cd ?

Take care.

Ken

 

[Homer J Simpson]

I know I shouldn't have left it where it could happen, but I did. Can
anyone help?

Scrape off with a plastic ruler.

 

[polymorph@polyphoto.com]

I know I shouldn't have left it where it could happen, but I did. Can
anyone help?

Find an old AOL CD to test this on first!!

Lighter fluid dissolves candle wax quite agressively.

Test it on an old CD first!

Steve Greenfield

 

[boardjunkie]

I know I shouldn't have left it where it could happen, but I did. Can
anyone help?

Take off the bulk with a soft cloth and something flat but not sharp.
Then rub off the rest using a clean part of the cloth.

 

[David Nebenzahl]

boardjunkie spake thus:

Take off the bulk with a soft cloth and something flat but not sharp.
Then rub off the rest using a clean part of the cloth.

Remembering, of course, to rub only in a radial direction (that is, in a
line between the center of the disc and the edge) and not
concentrically, for that, as we all know, is how CD read errors are
generated.

 

[jakdedert]

boardjunkie spake thus:


Remembering, of course, to rub only in a radial direction (that is, in a
line between the center of the disc and the edge) and not
concentrically, for that, as we all know, is how CD read errors are
generated.

The OP didn't state just on which side of the disk the wax melted. It
makes a difference. If the label side, one must be VERY careful with
any kinds of solvents/scratches. The shiny side is a little more
forgiving, as it has thicker protection...although optical clarity is of
course imperative.

jak

 

[Rheilly Phoull]

The OP didn't state just on which side of the disk the wax melted. It
makes a difference. If the label side, one must be VERY careful with
any kinds of solvents/scratches. The shiny side is a little more
forgiving, as it has thicker protection...although optical clarity is
of course imperative.

jak

Reading the posts is not your forte ??

 

[jakdedert]

Reading the posts is not your forte ??

Mr. Phool...while I might have missed something in the two-sentence OP
quoted above, I don't think so. Perhaps you'd like to clarify as
opposed to....?

Perhaps you read the OP's mind and 'know' on which side he spilled the wax.

jak

 

[Puckdropper]

*snip and trim*

Perhaps you read the OP's mind and 'know' on which side he spilled the
wax.

jak

I don't have to read the OP's post. It's in the subject line.

Puckdropper

 

[jakdedert]

*snip and trim*


I don't have to read the OP's post. It's in the subject line.

Puckdropper

Damn, you're right! I read the post, but paid no attention to the
subject line beyond 'CD'.

I stand corrected.

Thank you so much for your edification, as well as your tact and
sensitivity. I humbly kneel at your throne....

jak

 

[Michael Black]

*snip and trim*


I don't have to read the OP's post. It's in the subject line.

But it can be amgiguous for those not in the know.

The side without the label is where it's read, and until you know
otherwise, that would likely be called the "recorded side". The
fact that the plastic is thinner on the label side than the blank
side may not be obvious to many people. Obviously the actual data
layer is more vulnerable from the label side, but I doubt the average
person knows that.

Hence, I'd say most would call the "recorded side" the one away from
the label.

Michael

 

[David Nebenzahl]

jakdedert spake thus:

Damn, you're right! I read the post, but paid no attention to the
subject line beyond 'CD'.

I stand corrected.

Thank you so much for your edification, as well as your tact and
sensitivity. I humbly kneel at your throne....

Just make sure it's not made of porcelain.

 

[AZ Nomad]

Reading the posts is not your forte ??

You think everybody knows which side a CD is recorded? You've never
seen some idiot lay a CD upside down on a table in order to protect the
wrong side?

 

[doorrag]

jakdedert wrote:

The OP didn't state just on which side of the disk the wax melted. It
makes a difference. If the label side, one must be VERY careful with
any kinds of solvents/scratches. The shiny side is a little more
forgiving, as it has thicker protection...although optical clarity is of
course imperative.

jak

Well I reckon my subject makes it clear :"Re: removing candle wax from
CD (recorded side!)"

 

[Homer J Simpson]

I humbly kneel at your throne....

Talking to God on the big white telephone?

 

[doorrag]

Thanks everyone for all your kind suggestions. I used hot water
followed by cloth (from the cenrte out!) and tootpaste. All's OK now!

 

[3T39]

Hello, doorrag!
You wrote on 29 Sep 2006 18:31:22 -0700:


Well I reckon my subject makes it clear :"Re: removing candle wax from
CD (recorded side!)"


Of course it just depends on which side you "recorded" the disk contents
with your felt tip :^)

With best regards, 3T39. E-mail: rubbishrat@hotmail.com

 

[Puckdropper]

et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black) wrote in @theodyn.ncf.ca:

Puckdropper (puckdropper@yahoo.com) writes:
But it can be amgiguous for those not in the know.

I did think of that. It seems to me that it's ambiguous for those *in*
the know.

*snip*

Hence, I'd say most would call the "recorded side" the one away from
the label.

That's why I didn't say anything. ;-)

Michael

Puckdropper

 

[Lionel]

I know I shouldn't have left it where it could happen, but I did. Can
anyone help?

Poke it with your fingernail, it'll lift right off.