removing candle wax from CD (recorded side!)

Hi...

Just a thought for your consideration...

Freeze it, then gently flex the cd ?

Take care.

Ken

Scrape off with a plastic ruler.

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

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.

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

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

jakdedert wrote in news:aKbTg.23145$ snipped-for-privacy@bignews4.bellsouth.net:

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

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

jakdedert spake thus:

Just make sure it's not made of porcelain.

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?

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

Talking to God on the big white telephone?

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

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: snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com

snipped-for-privacy@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black) wrote in news:efjic8$e8b$1 @theodyn.ncf.ca:

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

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

Puckdropper

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

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