Re: CDs damaged

[Tom Droege <tdroege@veriomail.com>]

Wow!  This was a big surprise to me.  I thought that CD ROMs were a 
sandwich, and that you recorded through a layer of plastic.  This seems to 
be true, the record side is done through a layer of plastic, but the other 
side is just the bare metalization.  I just took one and scratched it with 
a screw driver.  I wonder if there are different types?  You could put a 
protective layer on the non recording side.  A label would do the trick.

Sigh!  You learn something new every day that you do not want to know!

I guess the RCMP have ridden their horses over Andrew's disks.  OK, at 
least we have made it through the first duplication stage for most of the 
data, so somewhere there should be a good copy of the various disks.

When I ship, I have been using boxes that CDs arrived in.  These are just 
the right size so that it is hard for them to move around.  So get out 
there and support the record industry and you will have mailers.

Tom Droege

At 06:49 PM 12/6/00 +0000, you wrote:
>Well, I suppose it had to happen.
>
>Bob Creager's batch arrived today. The box
>looks fine but the CDs look as though they
>were hit with a rock. I'm posting this to the
>whole analysis group to encourage suggestions
>on better packaging!
>
>The CDs were in pairs in Case Logic pouches.
>These were packed in a Tharko TW-158 9x6x2