Tesla Turbine

pictures?

To quote Elmer Fudd -- "be vewy vewy careful" -- there have been a number of reports of some of the CD's exploding in some of the high speed CD drives and doing a fair amount of damage.

mikey

Didn't "Mythbusters", the TV program do a storey on exploding CD's?

Don't remember that one, but there have been a number of people in the cdr newsgroups who say they have had it happen to them. Only happens in the high speed drives and if the disc has a crack (even a small one) in it already. I have not seen it personally, but there were a number that said it happened to them (as opposed to "I have heard of it"). Apparently does a fairly good job of destroying the drive when it happens ...

mikey

It happened to me. Sounded like a 22 pistol and I did have to replace the drive. It was a German language tape :-) so the entire set is worthless (or nearly so) without the first lesson.

Dale

If anyone reading wants pictures, send me an email....

aiiadict AT gmail DOT com

Rich

Sounds like a good use for disks from a hard drive.

Bill K7NOM

I'd like to see it- can you just send them to the dropbox?

John

Clean CDs are good up to 20-30k, IIRC. Simple job to seperate out the bad ones - they explode.

Tim

-- "California is the breakfast state: fruits, nuts and flakes." Website:

I'm sorry! Here is the first lesson: Bier; Guten Tag; Oktoberfest; Auf Wiedersehen; Wo ist mein Hotel?; Schnaps; Danke; Bitte; Noch ein Bier;

That should be enough for 2 weeks. (not learning German, staying in Germany)

Nick

Pics!!

Gunner

"Considering the events of recent years, the world has a long way to go to regain its credibility and reputation with the US." unknown

Me me me!

Emailed and posted

Gunner

"Considering the events of recent years, the world has a long way to go to regain its credibility and reputation with the US." unknown

Thanks Nick but I already knew that much :-)

Ich kann zwar ein wenig auf Deutsch lesen, allerdings bin ich nicht in der Lage Deutsch zu schreiben.

Später Dale PS it was a "CD" not "Tape" as I miswrote.

This is either the "Big Hallmark Swindle", or this is the only sentence you have perfectly learned (-> swindle -> recursion).

Nick

AOL! [BTW: The AOL-CD-Tesla Turbine, how about that?] Can someone drop them in the ummm... dropbox, please.

Nick

Seconded! If Rich has never used the dropbox, here's instructions.

done.

I've seen reference to the "drop box" and didn't know what it was. Thanks for the link, Artemia.

Rich

I collect Austrian coins tokens and medals and have needed to learn a little mostly in that context and a little for communication purposes.

It is one of a few sentences that I know how to put together properly. I know lots of words but German sentence structure is tough. Actually English is pretty tough for this old Texan too :-)

I would love to know a lot more but I am pretty lazy and most Germans and Austrians I have met electronically have excellent English skills and many times a couple other languages too. Makes me a little lacking by comparisson.

Dale Ich weiß nichts davon.

Lange nicht gut genug.

This is the mysterious drawback of your language.

Nick