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Important Safety Notice
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NakedGeek
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9. June 2004 @ 21:27 |
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Heya folks,
I posted this on my website a few weeks back after the problem was brought to my attention by consumers/traders and my local university:
Important Safety Warning- Friday 21 May, 2004
I have heard several reports over the past week about some brands of media actually coming apart in drives. A recordable disk is two plastic plates "bonded" together, the two plates should NEVER come apart and it is a serious safetly issue if they do. If the plates seperate whilst they are in the drive and the user opens the drive door it has been known for the plates to shatter and send sharp shards of plastic out of the drive drawer. This is a serious safety risk and could literally cause you to lose an eye.
If you ever experience a situation where the two plates of the disk physically come apart, stop using that media immediately and take it back to the shop you brought it from. If they refuse to refund you your money a quick mention of Health and Safety should do the trick, if they still refuse, contact your local council's health and safety office.
Our local University now have a warning on all the desktops of all their machines about disks coming apart in drives. Another forum saw fit to mock this warning for some obscure reason, I hope the importance of it doesn't get treated the same way here.
Paladine
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9. June 2004 @ 22:12 |
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I saw this on "myth busters" not to long ago. They were putting all kinds of cracked, broken discs in various drives and the things would fall apart and jam the drive but not really explode. They finally got one to explode by chucking the disc on a router spindle and spinning the thing up to over 18,000 RPM. It exploded of course. The router fried because they doubled the normal 120 volts to 240 to get the thing to spin that fast.
I personally have never heard of this happening to anyone and looking at my drives, there is not really a door but a tray front attached to the tray, so I couldn't open it while it was running if I wanted to.
Heres a warning article on the subject.
http://theage.com.au/articles/2002/12/09/1039379779472.html?oneclick=true
I know that speeds aproaching 10,000 RPM are possible so looking at a disc while it is spinning is not a smart thing to do. I have had sanding discs come apart at similar speed and hit me in the face shield. It leaves a pretty good mark.
Be safe,
Frank
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roeod4
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10. June 2004 @ 07:51 |
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If the plates seperate whilst they are in the drive and the user opens the drive door it has been known for the plates to shatter and send sharp shards of plastic out of the drive drawer.
I don't know about anyone else's drives, but when I hit the eject button on mine the disc stops spinning and then ejects. If the disc were to separate in the drive, most of my drives would probably get jammed and not open, but even if they did the disc would not be spinning. But we will take a leap of faith (since it has been KNOWN for the plates to shatter and all) that some drives still spin at a high rate of speed when opened and be thankful that no one has been hurt from the helicopter effect we all get when our discs go flying once the drive is opened.
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This is a serious safety risk and could literally cause you to lose an eye
Well, duh! Ok, now this sounds like my mother or a warning about my red rider bb gun....."You'll shoot your eye out." But we will go on faith that you COULD lose an eye. If your broken spinning disc does explode and you have your drive close to your face, sure. So at this point I have broken disc all over the place and a missing eye, is that what we are saying?
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If you ever experience a situation where the two plates of the disk physically come apart, stop using that media immediately and take it back to the shop you brought it from.
Ok, gotta say it again here. Well, Duh! This would probably have to be some crap media to begin with and if this happened I would absolutely never use it again. Especially after it caused me to lose an eye. I would get my cycloptic self down to the store and demand a refund at that point. Oh, would I have to pick up the broken pieces on the floor or would the large one protruding from my eye socket suffice for the return?
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If they refuse to refund you your money a quick mention of Health and Safety should do the trick, if they still refuse, contact your local council's health and safety office.
Ok, at this point I am a one eyed Cyclops standing in a store with broken media sticking out of my head. If they don't give me my money back talking about Health and Safety isn't going to do squat. Contact the local health and safety office? The better business bureau is more like it and perhaps a news station or two and a lawyer for good measure.
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Another forum saw fit to mock this warning for some obscure reason, I hope the importance of it doesn't get treated the same way here.
I am sure that the reason was not obscure at all. I would like to know which forum it was that was mocking a post like this, so I can send them my Cyclops pictures as a warning to all nonbelievers.
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funbobby
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10. June 2004 @ 15:51 |
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ive handled a few and the only ones that have shattered are the coasters i throw at the wall.
NakedGeek stop discrediting other manufactures to promote sales of your company,sort yourself out and stop worrying about others.
cheers
funbobby
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karen2003
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29. June 2004 @ 22:20 |
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roeod4, I was just wanderin' through these forums at 2-something a.m. and wanted to say thanks for the laugh!!
Karen H.--Dell Optiplex GX240, P4 1.50ghz, 256mb RAM (yeah, I need more), Windows XP Pro w/SP1, 80gb c: drive (replaced the 20gb c: that crashed), 126gb i: drive, 124gb j: drive, 500gb external hard drive partitioned into k: and l: drives, Sony DDU1621/C1 DVD-ROM to rip/encode, Sony DRX-530UL to burn, new Sony DRX-840U to burn DL discs ... need a new computer to go with it!!
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29. June 2004 @ 23:20 |
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NakedGeek stop discrediting other manufactures to promote sales of your company,sort yourself out and stop worrying about others.
No kidding.
My killer sig came courtesy of bb "El Jefe" mayo.
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Praetor
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30. June 2004 @ 07:41 |
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I've seen this happen before where discs just detonate inside the drive -- but those discs were already precracked and stuff when they were put in... regular normal discs shouldnt have a problem
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30. June 2004 @ 09:09 |
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The only time it happened to me was when I was copying irrefutable proof of alien existence to disc and the aliens zapped it apart from outer space while it was still in the drive. Either that or they were aiming for me and they're really bad shots.
My killer sig came courtesy of bb "El Jefe" mayo.
The Forum Rules You Agreed To! http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/2487
"And there we saw the giants, and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight" - Numbers 13:33
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30. June 2004 @ 10:42 |
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LOLLOL Nephilim. I hope that this was the 2nd backup you were trying to make. Sorry to hear that you got zapped. ROFLMAO
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Denzien
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30. June 2004 @ 10:50 |
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AnyDVD will filter out that Alien Homing Beacon Signal, or so I've heard.
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funbobby
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13. July 2004 @ 06:48 |
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Bump.....cause its funny LOLOL
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