I have several dozen old AOL CD's that I have kept just because I
figured someday I would find a good use for them. Well today I did find
ONE good way to use them. I needed a new filter for my old 5HP Sears
Shopvac. When I put it back together I couldn't find the old Filter
disc. I am afraid I accidentally left it on the old filter and it was
thrown in the trash ( trashday was yesterday). I got out my compass to
measure the size of the circle I would need so I could make a new disc
on my scroll saw and drill press. I just happened to have a music CD
laying on top of the computer and VIOLA the CD was almost exactly the
size I needed and the hole in the middle was the right size also. I put
an old AOL CD in place and I have been using the shop vac all morning
and it works great. Now if I can just find a few other things the old
CD's are good for. . . .
Dennis

Puff Griffis wrote:

I hang them from strings in my vegetable garden to keep the birds
out. Puff


And I do the old microwave thing from time to time when I don't have
anything particularly useful to do at the moment. AOL et al keep me in
regular and cheap entertainment.

I hang them from strings in my vegetable garden to keep the birds out.
Puff

"TwoGuns" wrote in message ups.com...
I have several dozen old AOL CD's that I have kept just because I
figured someday I would find a good use for them. Well today I did find
ONE good way to use them. I needed a new filter for my old 5HP Sears
Shopvac. When I put it back together I couldn't find the old Filter
disc. I am afraid I accidentally left it on the old filter and it was
thrown in the trash ( trashday was yesterday). I got out my compass to
measure the size of the circle I would need so I could make a new disc
on my scroll saw and drill press. I just happened to have a music CD
laying on top of the computer and VIOLA the CD was almost exactly the
size I needed and the hole in the middle was the right size also. I put
an old AOL CD in place and I have been using the shop vac all morning
and it works great. Now if I can just find a few other things the old
CD's are good for. . . .
Dennis

"TwoGuns" wrote in message
ups.com...
I have several dozen old AOL CD's that I have kept just because I
figured someday I would find a good use for them. Well today I did find
ONE good way to use them. I needed a new filter for my old 5HP Sears
Shopvac. When I put it back together I couldn't find the old Filter
disc. I am afraid I accidentally left it on the old filter and it was
thrown in the trash ( trashday was yesterday). I got out my compass to
measure the size of the circle I would need so I could make a new disc
on my scroll saw and drill press. I just happened to have a music CD
laying on top of the computer and VIOLA the CD was almost exactly the
size I needed and the hole in the middle was the right size also. I put
an old AOL CD in place and I have been using the shop vac all morning
and it works great. Now if I can just find a few other things the old
CD's are good for. . . .
Dennis

I keep my table saw blades on a wood dowel and space them with CD's to keep
teeth from touching. Also can use as spacers with a dado blade. Warren

I keep my table saw blades on a wood dowel and space them with CD's to
keep
teeth from touching. Also can use as spacers with a dado blade. Warren
************************************************** *****************************************
That is a great idea Warren. Thanks

Warren Weber wrote:
"TwoGuns" wrote in message
ups.com...

I have several dozen old AOL CD's that I have kept just because I
figured someday I would find a good use for them. Well today I did find
ONE good way to use them. I needed a new filter for my old 5HP Sears
Shopvac. When I put it back together I couldn't find the old Filter
disc. I am afraid I accidentally left it on the old filter and it was
thrown in the trash ( trashday was yesterday). I got out my compass to
measure the size of the circle I would need so I could make a new disc
on my scroll saw and drill press. I just happened to have a music CD
laying on top of the computer and VIOLA the CD was almost exactly the
size I needed and the hole in the middle was the right size also. I put
an old AOL CD in place and I have been using the shop vac all morning
and it works great. Now if I can just find a few other things the old
CD's are good for. . . .
Dennis


I keep my table saw blades on a wood dowel and space them with CD's to keep
teeth from touching. Also can use as spacers with a dado blade. Warren


Damn, why didn't I think of that. I've been using
three thin wood strips between blades (blades
laid horizontal on an upright dowel) in a drawer.
Think I'll do some replacing.

On 30 Dec 2005 09:51:55 -0800, "TwoGuns"
wrote:

I have several dozen old AOL CD's

They make a great survival/signalling mirror. I don't go too far into
the wilderness without a couple packed away.

Barry Lennox

In article ,
Joe Barta wrote:

Puff Griffis wrote:

I hang them from strings in my vegetable garden to keep the birds
out. Puff


And I do the old microwave thing from time to time when I don't have
anything particularly useful to do at the moment. AOL et al keep me in
regular and cheap entertainment.

That's rather hard on the microwave though

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Somewhere online I saw a very cool (and apparently very heavy) lamp made
from a ~12" stack of these with a cold cathode light tube through the
middle. The light shines out through the edges for a nice diffuse effect.

Ralph E Lindberg wrote:

And I do the old microwave thing from time to time when I don't
have anything particularly useful to do at the moment. AOL et al
keep me in regular and cheap entertainment.

That's rather hard on the microwave though


Thanks for the warning. I mean, ever since I found hair growing on my
palms I learned to take such cautions seriously.

Seriously though, I suppose all that snap crackle pop *might* come at
some expense. But why and how is it hard on a microwave?

Joe Barta

wrote:

I've been pirating junk from the net for ten years. I burn 3-4
DVDs a day now. I collect it like stamps.
I have at least 6000 CD/DVDs most are junk now.
That would be a stack about 40 feet high.

Most of what you have burned is "junk now" yet you still burn "3-4
DVDs a day"? I mean, we all collect and accumulate bits of crap we
find on the internet, but if we figure 4.7 Gb per disc, that's like 15
GIGAbytes of stuff per day! You are trying to set a record? What on
earth could you be collecting at that rate?

wrote in message

I use them for tons of other stuff.
You can cut them and heat bend them into fan shapes that spin like crazy
in the
wind. Scares away critters from the garden.

I tried using them for targets once, but they're too easy ... all my shots
were apparently bull's-eye's.

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Last update: 12/13/05

On 12/30/2005 12:51 PM TwoGuns mumbled something about the following:
I have several dozen old AOL CD's that I have kept just because I
figured someday I would find a good use for them. Well today I did find
ONE good way to use them. I needed a new filter for my old 5HP Sears
Shopvac. When I put it back together I couldn't find the old Filter
disc. I am afraid I accidentally left it on the old filter and it was
thrown in the trash ( trashday was yesterday). I got out my compass to
measure the size of the circle I would need so I could make a new disc
on my scroll saw and drill press. I just happened to have a music CD
laying on top of the computer and VIOLA the CD was almost exactly the
size I needed and the hole in the middle was the right size also. I put
an old AOL CD in place and I have been using the shop vac all morning
and it works great. Now if I can just find a few other things the old
CD's are good for. . . .
Dennis


5 seconds in the microwave and use them as coffee coasters.

--
Odinn - more than my share of AOHell coffee coasters

On 12/31/2005 10:58 AM Ralph E Lindberg mumbled something about the
following:
In article ,
Joe Barta wrote:

Puff Griffis wrote:

I hang them from strings in my vegetable garden to keep the birds
out. Puff

And I do the old microwave thing from time to time when I don't have
anything particularly useful to do at the moment. AOL et al keep me in
regular and cheap entertainment.

That's rather hard on the microwave though


Not at all, doesn't harm it one bit.

--
Odinn - hundreds of CD's microwaved in my $49 microwave with no ill effect.

The Joe Barta entity posted thusly:

Ralph E Lindberg wrote:

And I do the old microwave thing from time to time when I don't
have anything particularly useful to do at the moment. AOL et al
keep me in regular and cheap entertainment.

That's rather hard on the microwave though


Thanks for the warning. I mean, ever since I found hair growing on my
palms I learned to take such cautions seriously.

Seriously though, I suppose all that snap crackle pop *might* come at
some expense. But why and how is it hard on a microwave?

Much, if not all, of that noise is caused by arcing inside the
magnetron (the part that actually produces the microwave energy).

In article ,
Odinn wrote:



Not at all, doesn't harm it one bit.

Sigh... do you know what a Standing Wave Ratio (SWR)is? Do you know what
a bad SWR means to a tranmission tube? Have you read the manual about
putting metal in the microwave? Do you know that it's the metal in the
CD that causes this reaction?

Why do I think the answer to the above questions are no

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On 1/1/2006 11:26 AM Ralph E Lindberg mumbled something about the following:
In article ,
Odinn wrote:


Not at all, doesn't harm it one bit.

Sigh... do you know what a Standing Wave Ratio (SWR)is? Do you know what
a bad SWR means to a tranmission tube? Have you read the manual about
putting metal in the microwave? Do you know that it's the metal in the
CD that causes this reaction?

Why do I think the answer to the above questions are no


Funny how one of my microwaves has a metal rack in it, and it doesn't
say to remove it to use the microwave. Do try again.

--
Odinn

On 30 Dec 2005 09:51:55 -0800, "TwoGuns" wrote:

I have several dozen old AOL CD's that I have kept just because I
figured someday I would find a good use for them. Well today I did find
ONE good way to use them. I needed a new filter for my old 5HP Sears
Shopvac. When I put it back together I couldn't find the old Filter
disc. I am afraid I accidentally left it on the old filter and it was
thrown in the trash ( trashday was yesterday). I got out my compass to
measure the size of the circle I would need so I could make a new disc
on my scroll saw and drill press. I just happened to have a music CD
laying on top of the computer and VIOLA the CD was almost exactly the
size I needed and the hole in the middle was the right size also. I put
an old AOL CD in place and I have been using the shop vac all morning
and it works great. Now if I can just find a few other things the old
CD's are good for. . . .
Dennis

If you're really bored and looking for kid's toys to make:

http://www.pennstateind.com/store/pkcdtop.html




mac

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On 1/1/2006 1:32 PM Odinn mumbled something about the following:
On 1/1/2006 11:26 AM Ralph E Lindberg mumbled something about the
following:
In article ,
Odinn wrote:


Not at all, doesn't harm it one bit.

Sigh... do you know what a Standing Wave Ratio (SWR)is? Do you know
what a bad SWR means to a tranmission tube? Have you read the manual
about putting metal in the microwave? Do you know that it's the metal
in the CD that causes this reaction?

Why do I think the answer to the above questions are no


Funny how one of my microwaves has a metal rack in it, and it doesn't
say to remove it to use the microwave. Do try again.


I'll give you a hint though. The warning isn't because of damage to the
magnatron.

--
Odinn - another hint is at http://amasci.com/weird/microwave/voltage3.html

On 1/1/2006 2:58 PM mumbled something about the following:
On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:58:46 -0500, Odinn wrote:

On 1/1/2006 1:32 PM Odinn mumbled something about the following:
On 1/1/2006 11:26 AM Ralph E Lindberg mumbled something about the
following:
In article ,
Odinn wrote:


Not at all, doesn't harm it one bit.
Sigh... do you know what a Standing Wave Ratio (SWR)is? Do you know
what a bad SWR means to a tranmission tube? Have you read the manual
about putting metal in the microwave? Do you know that it's the metal
in the CD that causes this reaction?

Why do I think the answer to the above questions are no

Funny how one of my microwaves has a metal rack in it, and it doesn't
say to remove it to use the microwave. Do try again.

I'll give you a hint though. The warning isn't because of damage to the
magnatron.

I have an old huge Panasonic convection microwave that is still my #1 kitchen
appliance. Because it is also convection this thing has accidentally microwaved
tons of metal. I even miked a 10 stack of CDs at once, now that was a show.g
It works as well now as it did new nearly 20 years ago.


I haven't tried a stack of 10 at a time, but I'm sure it would be quite
a show.

Have you tried the grape plasma arc yet?
http://c3po.barnesos.net/homepage/lpl/grapeplasma/

Nice show, especially if you have the lights off in the house.

--
Odinn - even boiling water in a microwave is dangerous

In article , Odinn wrote:

Have you tried the grape plasma arc yet?
http://c3po.barnesos.net/homepage/lpl/grapeplasma/

Nice show, especially if you have the lights off in the house.

Try a marshmallow -- it'll swell up almost as large as a tennis ball. If you
have a microwave with variable power levels, the marshmallow will expand and
shrink, expand and shrink as the magnetron cycles on and off.

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It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.