25 Years CD Rot

cosmos cosmos at CASEMA.NET
Tue Apr 6 09:02:09 EDT 1999


At 10:14 6-4-99 +0100, you wrote:
>From: Mark Edmonds
>Date: 1999-04-06 10:14
>
>My 25 Years Virgin CD is showing serious signs of decay. It looks like
>air is getting into the layer between the data part of the disc and the
>label and it looks like it has streaks of some sort of growth growing
>into the centre of the disc. Thankfully, the playing time of this disc is
>so short that it has to grow over more than 50% of the disc to affect the
>sound but its not very conforting anyway. Has anyone else come across
>this problem or have I just got a dud? If it is a case of the disc layers
>separating, is there a known cure to slow the process down? I was
>wondering if something crazy like putting a thin layer of glue round the
>rim might help matters? Thanks for any advice here.
>
>Mark (hoping that a remaster of this CD will come out before its too
>late)
>

bad luck my friend.
mine still looks and plays very well.

andre



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