OT: old CDs - what to do with them

1. Get some vodka.

1. Find an overpass.

2. Call someone to bail you out.

Jr

If she's not interested in a chair, how about something creative for the garden. I recall seing a scarecrow made from CDs, but I'm thinking along the lines of a planter or something like that. You could also do a wind 'chime'. Ought to be as good as the bamboo wind chimes, plus you get the visual effect in the sun.

try this. make a stack of CDs separated by 1/16th inch spacers of your choice - maybe vernier scraps. Glue it all together or use long #4 threaded rod (in 3 places). Turn to a pleasing shape. put 4 watt fluorescent tube in the center, wire it up and then add a base of a dark wood such as walnut or Bocote or even ebony.

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So, the light shines through the edge? Sounds neat. Could make different depth stacks for variety.

They make excellent tops. Easy to make, and they spin a long time. They make great give-aways for kids if you're doing a demo at a fair or craft show.

Be careful with this. CDs are very brittle and they break into sharp pieces.

I turned a bunch of tops out of old CDs, had a mirror on my table to spin them, people went crazy. At $1, I sold out of about 100 in just minutes. Less than a half-hour later the kids started bringing them back in pieces (very SHARP pieces) looking for replacements. Everyone was disappointed.

Michael Latcha, at home in Redford MI

I use them as spacers for settnig/fitting inset drawer fronts and cabinet doors. Easy to use, nice even gap, etc etc. snap them to the more or less right size, and throw 'em out when you're done.

I also use them as glue spreaders, shaped utty knives, etc.. Pretty much anyplace I need a "custom" shaped farily stiff whatever.

-JD

One year I used them as reflectors for the outdoor Christmas lights on the tree in the front yard.

Sucked. Nowhere near the effect I hoped for.

I like the lamp idea, but maybe these are just one of those items that doesn't have a useful second life, no matter how much it seems it should.

Which answers the question: "What to do with the bubble pack plastic that everything comes in these days?"

Ship packages with it.

Think birthdays, Christmas, for fun and for some a small layer of isolation. Heat or sound.

If in Earth Quake area, packing an protection.

Martin

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Notice the Corn mash 'peanuts' stopped being used! - You could water it down in the sink and they melt away...

Now Corn is worth money - going into gas and food.

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I haven't found a good use for the CDs yet, but those plastic cylindrical cases that you buy 100 blank CDs in has a good use if you are a camper. It makes a great case to keep the rolls of toilet paper clean and dry until you need to use it.

Charley

I screw the bases into the joist running through my basement shop, and use them as containers for washers, etc. Works a treat.

I have my wood hat sitting upon one - so the brim won't distort. I have ball cap hats also. I even store some backups (on DVD's) in them. :-)

But my turned wood hat was saved from bending and turning flat.

Martin [ my uncle makes them for fun - or did. ]

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Use the old cd's to keep the birds out of your fruit trees.