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[Rant] I am too dumb to be left alive. I just tried to clean a CD with Isopropyl Alcohol... (i.imgur.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It waited 31 years just for me to do this.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does this damage the label or data side?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The damage was done from label side, however with CDs there's just a thin lacquer layer below the label and that's it.

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Which is why you also shouldn't write onto CDs with permanent markers.

DVDs on the other hand have a relatively thick plastic layer on top, offering fairly good protection.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Can’t CDs also have two layers of plastic? I thought it was just cheap CDs that printed the label directly onto the data layer.