my compact discs have become enwettened

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is it likely that they are ruined after my bottled water leaked while inside by bag, creating a small pool? say it ain't so. if 'since i left you' is fucked, i think i'm gonna go cry or melt plastic soldiers or something.

― m. (mitchlnw), Monday, 4 October 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

The cds themselves shouldn't be damaged by water, wouldn't think. Just wipe 'em off with a soft cloth and let them air dry and they should work fine.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 4 October 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks. this is what i've been doing. i just wanted emotional support before i try and play them.

― m. (mitchlnw), Monday, 4 October 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I watched my friend get a scratched cd to play by scrubbing it with toothpaste and running it under the faucet yesterday, so I think you'll be good.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 4 October 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I once dropped a copy of Mr. Bungle's California into a gigantic vase full of beer (out of which I had been drinking), had it out, dried off, and in the boombox for a drunken last-people-still-at-the-party emo-but-laughing-about-it "Pink Cigarette" singalong, all over the span of approximately 30 seconds.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 4 October 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

go melt plastic soldiers anyway. Any excuse is a good excuse to melt plastic soldiers. Especially with a magnifying glass or a thermite grenade.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 4 October 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I've boiled cds to clean them.

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 4 October 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

isopropynol if they screw up.

― piscesboy, Monday, 4 October 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

my mate david used to keep all his records - proper vinyl ones, natch - in those special plastic bags you can get in collector's shops (you know, the ones that slip over the sleeves).

"it keeps them clean and dust-free," he'd say proudly.

foolishly, he kept his records on the floor. by the sofa. with the plastic bags - d'oh! - open-side-up.

one night, sitting smoking and listening to his vast collection of spacemen 3 rarities, he knocked his cup of coffee off the edge of the sofa and onto his records.

the spectacle of this poor, broken man scrabbling around amid lots of coffee-filled plastic bags full of spacemen 3 records was too much for my poor stoned mind to bear. i don't think he's ever forgiven me for laughing to hard to help.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 4 October 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

go melt plastic soldiers anyway. Any excuse is a good excuse to melt plastic soldiers. Especially with a magnifying glass or a thermite grenade.
-- Lord Custos Epsilon (L.Custo...), October 4th, 2004.

OTM.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 4 October 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

water on cd's? should be no problem at all...

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 4 October 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i just winced like i'd been kicked in the nads at the thought of this

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Monday, 4 October 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that story is mortifying.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 4 October 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i just winced like i'd been kicked in the nads at the thought of this

oh, don't get me wrong. that was ... bloody hell, a good eight years ago now, and i still cringe at the thought of that particular horror.

but then i piss meself laughing about a second later.

(of course: another friend once spilt a tiny bit of coffee on the tracing-paper sleeve of my copy of low-life by new order, and i wasn't fucking laughing very hard then.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 4 October 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

One year in college I stored my LPs on the floor in the corner of the room against two outside walls. Well into a wet winter I smelled a mildew-like smell and upon investigation found that water had leaked in at floor level and soaked up into the LPs. In addition to mold on the covers, a lot of them had a light mold that apparently had eaten into the vinyl a bit (it wouldn't wash off). They make a chhhhh sound now for the first five minutes or so. I was pissed off at the time, but wouldn't be playing them now anyway.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 4 October 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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