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CD's Getting Wet Or Not To Get Wet - I'm Getting Mixed Messages From Yahoo! Answerers Here?
I am getting mixed messages from Yahoo! Answerer's here. Some answers I got in the past have told me to not get my CD's wet & there was a recent answerer telling me that he doesn't know where I got the idea that CD's can't get wet & went forward with telling me about all the chemicals & wiping the CD's down with water & all this other stuff people do to their CD's. I am confused. I don't get my CD's full on completely spilled type of wet like them being doused with water or heavily spilled on. Nothing like that. I merely accidentally may possibly get drops of water that are particle into small molecule sized drops sucked into the air that happen when I am drinking soda or something else while my 24" inch Maxx Air High Velocity Fan is on. Please Google the 24" Maxx Air Fan so you can get an idea of what one looks like if you don't know or haven't seen one.
The soda may not get into or onto the fan , but the outer cold bottle where the coldness is the same as the bottle being wet. I wonder or worry if somehow the coldness or somewhat outer coldness only related wetness of the plastic bottles I drink from may get collected up into the suction portion of the back of the fan that sucks in the air & then blows air forward & where wetness or coldness that may blow out of the fan into the air in the room can be in the formation of particle wetness caused by recent refrigeration only & not soda wetness or anything being spilled onto the body of the plastic bottle, that particles can be sucked in the back of my fan & then pushed up & out into the blowing air side & those particles can possibly land on my CD's or other things nearby. My fan is loud & powerful & pushes a lot of air & is great.
But , anyhow , some people say don't get the CD's wet & then I see You Tube videos of people washing their CD's & using chemicals & all this other crap to make their CD's work better or like new. I am confused.
As I said some tell me to not get them wet while other answers tell me that wetness does not effect CD's. Please set the record straight. I may not because I am worried that some of the answers given to me here will be just as mixed in commentary or opinions. I don't know how people can possibly wash their CD's & or DVD's & Blu Ray movies & they get dried & they work just fine ! I never tried it , but I am afraid to.
Again , I have completely immersed a CD before & let it dry & it never worked ever again , so I don't know how these people in this world are able to wash & use chemicals on their CD's & still render them all remaining functional. Please people , let me know what's up with that. One last thing is that what I worry about that may be caught into the fan & pushed into the room through the fan blades & moleculed into the air is soda that I drink from those 1 liter bottles. I am wondering if people can use chemicals when cleaning their CD's then I am wondering if getting soda drop particles in the air & possibly landing on my CD's isn't so bad. I know that soda can be acidic to teeth & things like that so I worry that they can be just as damaging to CD's & or DVD's.
Sorry for the long question & commentary here ! :-(
Please answer all my questions & inquires here , please. I appreciate all your help. I will be watching my incoming messages like a hawk. I will stay online watching for my answers for a good few hours from now in case someone answers me immediately. Thanks again , everyone. :-)
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- ?Lv 67 years agoFavorite Answer
Well Yahoo! Answers Fan, I would not let the subject upset me so. Yes a few drops of water are not in most cases harmful. You should as much as possible protect them from both moisture(especially constant) and dust, dirt and other types of abrasive materials. The Fan and it's blowing moisture from your beverage container are not your greatest enemy. The cds and dvds can hold a lot of digital information that needs to be read by a laser and any spotting or scratching can cause the laser to either misread or not read the information from the disc and render it useless. Yes there are careful methods to clean the discs and even to lightly buff out the scratches, but once there is so much damage the disc is nothing more than completely useless. A disc that is constantly exposed to an excessive amount of moisture can actually have that moisture get between the layers of plastic and also render it useless. It is always best to keep all of your discs in the best possible environmental conditions when not in use. Keep them in jewel cases or paper sleeves(plastic sleeves are more likely to scratch,but better than nothing) to protect them and anytime they are dropped you immensely increase the risk of damage. You should absolutely keep them free of anything that is sticky as this would gum up the inside of the player and cause it to malfunction including causing the laser to misread the discs. NEVER use paper stick on labels, once they start to peel even the slightest amount they stick to the inside of the players parts and can easily destroy a player that is trying to load or unload a disc that is stuck and will not release because the sticky paper label is caught on something. If you get any liquids on the discs make sure that it is completely dried before placing it into the player and if it is soda pop, fruit juice or whatever carefully washed off and dried.
Good Luck, keep your chin up, discs clean and dry and may the sun always shine upon your day.