CD/DVD disks

AlienMenace

Well-Known Member

• Oct 24, 2010

• #1

Hi;
I would like to know if you are to drill holes through your old
CD/DVD Disks if that can destroy them where no one can read them?
I have a lot of them over the years and I am in the process of going
through and keeping what I want and destroying the rest.

Thank you
Alien Menace

 

tremmor

Well-Known Member

• Oct 24, 2010

• #2

Never went to that extreme. had a few with personal data. took out side and gave it a couple swirls on the cement. might want to try a piece of 60 or 40 grit sandpaper.

 

Last edited: Oct 24, 2010

MyCattMaxx

Active Member

• Oct 24, 2010

• #3

A microwave oven does a great job on them or you could just break the disc.
Try a microwave and watch thru the window. You will know when the job is done. Only takes about 10 seconds depending on power level.
If your worried just put the disc on a cup of water.

 

Last edited: Oct 24, 2010

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fstreed

New Member

• Oct 25, 2010

• #4

Take them out and use them for target practice, a few 260 grain flatnosed cast bullets from a .44 Mag. should make them unreadable. Works great on HDDs also. Clean up the pieces after shooting them.

 

AlienMenace

Well-Known Member

• Oct 25, 2010

• #5

Thank you all for the suggestions

 

jamesd1981

Active Member

• Oct 25, 2010

• #6

i put my used disc in the paper sleeves, then snap it in half with you foot, and it actually shatters it into pieces, impossible to recover.

 

AlienMenace

Well-Known Member

• Oct 26, 2010

• #7

Thanks again for all the advice, but I found that a drill bit and a Dremal tool is great for the job.

 

MyCattMaxx

Active Member

• Oct 26, 2010

• #8

Please try the microwave at least once. It's a cool light show and in short doses won't hurt the microwave.
Just check out the pattern after and it looks cool.

 

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jolie

New Member

• Nov 18, 2010

• #9

I'm late , you has already get the ideal. Good luck

 

ScOuT

VIP Member

• Nov 25, 2010

• #10

MyCattMaxx said:

A microwave oven does a great job on them

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That is what we have to do at work. About 5 seconds in the microwave and they are destroyed forever. The silver shiny stuff just fries and comes right off the plastic.

Very easy, effective and quick. You can burn through a stack in minutes.

 

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Sophocles

VIP Member

• Nov 26, 2010

• #11

Hi;
I would like to know if you are to drill holes through your old
CD/DVD Disks if that can destroy them where no one can read them?

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It all seems like a lot of work for something that can be snapped into minuscule pieces like a cracker in seconds.

 

Dramen

New Member

• Nov 28, 2010

• #12

How much of a fire risk is putting CD's in a microwave? I have plenty of spare boredom time on my hands right now, will it wreck the microwave or blow up my kitchen?