Can you paint on the label side of a CD? If so, what kinds of paint would be safe for the drives?
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Mar 15, 202615359 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I sometimes make demo CDs for artists as a kind of sideline from maintaining their websites. While working on one of these demo discs, I began to wonder whether it was possible for an artist to paint directly on the label side of the CD without the paint causing damage to the CD drive. My inner hac…
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Very risky. Even the slightest bit of weight can unbalance a disc and cause it to wobble violently when it spins up. You can try this reasonably safely by placing a small piece of tape on one side; when you use the disc now the sound is clearly diff…
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