Whats wrong with a garden hose? Given a strong enough fan, the garden hose can be a great way to cool the computer! Or maybe change your 3/8" or 1/2" tubing with waterhose tubing . Those should REALLY perform!
I've also heard of people washing dirty CDs and then putting them in the drives when they're not fully dried off!
Lol. Washing CDs is generally NOT dangerous (I've done it before, can't remember why, probably spilled something). You can even use soap
actually LPs could take a lot of abuse and dirt would get in the grooves..... you could use a soft nylon brush on them.... but CDs scratch.... spinning water flying off a wet CD in a player is bad news....
But you're losing sound fidelity when there's dust in the LP grooves. Why not drying the CDs by putting them at the end of a Dremel? ;-) (Already heard news about CDs cracking in 5000-6500RPM Lite-ON drives, I don't want to see them at 35000RPM! (Hide!)
yeah the cd on the dremel is a classic. i had a friend who put a cracked cd into his drive, it blew up inside the drive and shot the cover of the drive of across the room.
Ahh i saw this tested on a great show here in the states called mythbusters. They could not get the drive to shatter the CD. But just for fun they took the CD and mounted it on a Drill. They cranked it up and wow. The CD had so much force that it went to a lethal level into the ballistic gel.
Aye.. do you remember what we were promised when cds first came out? You could drill holes in em, spread jam on them etc etc etc and nothing but nothing would damage them................. hmmm
Don't worry, we've got all these shows translated here. (Monster Garage, Robot Wars, Pimp my Ride, Scraphead Challenge, Rides, etc.) I don't have cable/sat TV tho...
I remember in the 1970s when engineer students at the universities would drop old tv sets from rooftops in insulation to see if the CRTs would break.... similar to the egg drop experiments.... dropping them without protection was more fun..... then again people did all kind of weird stuff in the 1970s.... like streaking, panty raids...., eating mushrooms......
They did or not????? ('cause CRTs are pretty darn solid, you don't want them to implose for nothing) Dumb stuff people do if real life : Throw CRTs in the trash : Just around 1-4 pounds of lead in there! (To prevent x-rays to liquefy your brain)
It can happen, I worked for a PC company near where I live and we had a guy bring back a CD rom with the remains of "Lara croft Tomraider" protruding from the rear of the Drive, when I saw this on Mythbusters, and they busted the myth, I thought, "Should have been with me that day".
just for that... I went and put a cd on my dremel, :evil: it didn't even break apart. I guess i was lucky... I didn't spool it up to full speed though.
I'm not completely stupid. I had 4 inches of plywood between me and the dremel. It's not like I just held it in my hand... I do take precautions. (at least most of the time)
Lol. You think thats enough? What makes you think the CD will prefer to fly into the plywood instead of into your face?
