Elizabeth, Did the Exxon Valdez spill affect your local Cd Store? I buy, & sell a whole lot of cd's, & have not run into any slippery ones. I do not use any treatments such as Vivid, since I remember the days when Sam Telling mentioned to use WD-40 on your cd's to lessen laser deflection. 6-12 months later the WD-40 penetrated the cd, & ate away the cd's layers leaving many cd collections blank. Past Dust-Off canned air, & Kodak lens cloths to remove any fingerprints, I leave my cd's as is. I have enough work with the cleaning of 2000 LP's, to start polishing 6000 cd's.
New CDs precoated with a slippery substance: since
I have not purchased any new CDs for years, but decided to aquire a few (50+) Blue Note RVG titles. (only because the LPs are impossible to find at reasonable prices)
I started to polish them and discovered they are all (except one) slippery already.
CDs used to arrive new with no coating and the surface had very high stiction. Only after coating them with a silicon product would they be "slippery".
Now all the CDs are already slippery.
So, when did this start happening?
(I have not purchased "new" CDs for about 10 years!)
And is this coating good enough, or do you find polishing them to still have some benefits
I started to polish them and discovered they are all (except one) slippery already.
CDs used to arrive new with no coating and the surface had very high stiction. Only after coating them with a silicon product would they be "slippery".
Now all the CDs are already slippery.
So, when did this start happening?
(I have not purchased "new" CDs for about 10 years!)
And is this coating good enough, or do you find polishing them to still have some benefits
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