This morning, I decided to weed out some of my old CDs and DVDs to sell at CD Warehouse. I found that most of them had some kind of fungus on them! I google for information on how to clean my CD and DVD collection without destroying them and I find instead: Fungus "eats" CDs (22.06.2001 BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1402533.stm). My question is: Has anyone here experienced this before? What can I do to clean and salvage my collection? How can I prevent this from happening to my unaffected discs?
2006-10-15 15:01:17 · 3 answers · asked by lb2k 4 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Music & Music Players
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1402533.stm
2006-10-15 15:49:30 · update #1
First, I have to ask. How do you get fungus on your cds?... Now for something you can try. I have this little gadget called the "cd doctor".. it cleans cds, and takes pretty deep scratches out of cds that weren't playable but now are. It works great. I love it.. You could try it, but I'm not sure what you can do with a fungus of some sort... odd...
2006-10-15 15:10:29 · answer #1 · answered by Honey J. Valentine 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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A fungus growing on CDs and DVDs is unlikely because they are aluminum with a clear epoxy protective coating. For anything to attack the discs, the coating would have to be severely scratched to allow oxidation of the metal. For molds you'd have to expose the discs to very high humidity and temps in storage for quite a long time. The worse that could happen is something adjoining them molds and some falls onto the discs.
Normal cleaning process is to use either window cleaning solution or denatured alcohol and polish it back to a luster.
2006-10-15 22:11:16 · answer #2 · answered by J.D. 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
play your cds.
Think about it, do you think those fungi can endure the lasers of men?
2006-10-15 22:10:19 · answer #3 · answered by Kuro_chan 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋