[olug] Shattering CD Rom's

[Eric Penne]

In college we mounted a CD to a dremel tool spun it up and let it go.  
It hit the floor, bounced, soomed at a near life threatening speed 
toward the heavy wooden dorm room door then shatted like glass when it 
hit the door.  Way too cool.

David Walker wrote:

>I don't have a television but I have shattered a CD Rom.
>However I believe it was a loading error and not anything related to RPMs.
>Once I removed all the pieces from the drive I continued using it but I paid 
>more attention to proper loading and no CDs or DVDs have shattered since.
>
>On Tuesday 07 September 2004 09:06 pm, Sean Edwards wrote:
>  
>
>>On Mythbusters (Discovery Cox channel 37 9pm), the
>>Mythbusters explore what it would take for a CD to
>>shatter in a drive.
>>
>>It is a rerun, and their results are quite surprising.
>>
>>-=Sean Edwards=-
>>cybersean3000 at yahoo.com
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