opening a cd spindle

[Janina Sajka]

Cheryl:

I don't know that I can help with all of your mechanical issues, but I do 
have two pointers for you:

1.)	I've found the top unit on most of my spindles was a dummy disk. 
Don't try to record to it, or find some way to satisfy yourself that's a 
real blank CDR.

2.)	You can very easily tell the business side of a CDR. There's a 
circular ridge near the center hole that goes all the way around the hole. 
This ridge is only present on one side of the CDR. Place the ridge side 
down. It's the business side.


On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> Ok, ok, this is probably going to win the prize for the dumbest email ever to
> this list, but I can't figure it out.
> I just got my spindle of cds. I pulled up the end that looked to me like it
> should have been the top, but that end is attached to the end of the spindle, so
> once the lid opens, pulling it up just pulls the spindle out of all hundred cds.
> I don't think this is what I want to do.
> I have looked and looked at the other end, and honestly I don't see how to open
> it.
> I really don't care if you all end up thinking i'm the most mechanically inept
> (that would be the nice way of putting it1) person on the list, but could
> somebody tell me what to look for to open this spindle?
> .I also hope that one can count on the discs being a certain way on the
> spindle, because from the glimpse I've gotten, there isn't much way to tell the
> top side from the bottom side.
> TIA.
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
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				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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