On Friday, December 12, 2014 6:24:33 AM UTC-5, Gareth Magennis wrote:

The loading mechanism was jammed because the CD spindle has a pad on it that
appears to be one sided sticky tape?? The CD was strongly glued to it, took
quite a tug to get it off!

Maybe this ring pad had come off somehow, leaving just the self adhesive
bottom bit behind? Dunno.


Odd. I wonder if that adhesive was originally a non-slip pad that decomposed over time.